Upbeat, November 2012 - Essex Police

News 9
We’ve got an APP for that!
Authorised Professional Practice (APP) streamlines more than
600 pieces of existing policing guidance and knowledge
products into a single, central, interactive, online source
APP replaces many of the current guidance
documents and will, ultimately, replace a lot of local
force policies and procedures, significantly reducing
bureaucracy, encouraging the use of professional
discretion and bringing consistency to all authorised
police practice.
However, in practice, you will notice little difference
as APP will be linked to relevant policy and procedure
through the force’s Policy and Procedure Document
Library.
You should still visit this to look up particular
policies and procedures but some information or
links to other guidance documents will have been
replaced by a link to the relevant information on APP.
APP has been developed in an interactive format
– information is interlinked and clearly signposted,
allowing you to navigate easily around the site.
You can either access APP direct – you can find links
on the blue menu on the intranet front page and on
the Site Directory’s Information menu – or via the
Policy and Procedure links.
APP has been tested by user groups across the force
and their feedback has helped to shape it.
APP comprises:
Core practice: themes which cut across a wide range
of policing activities:
Investigation; Intelligence Management;
Information Management; Operations; Engagement
and Communications; Prosecution and Case
Management; Detention and Custody; and Decision
Making.
Specific practice: areas which require additional
national standards and/or practice for reasons of high
risk, interoperability and partnership working:
Armed Policing; CBRN; Civil Contingencies;
Mobilisation; Organised Crime; and Public Order.
The following areas of Specific practice are
currently being developed and should come online
through APP next year: Counter-Terrorism; Covert
(technical surveillance, surveillance and undercover);
Domestic Extremism; e-Crime; Financial
Investigation; Forensics; Major Crime; Professional
Standards; Protecting Vulnerable People; Roads
Policing; and Stop and Search.
If you have any questions, contact:
Peter Hood or Tracy Ashford in the
Policy Development Unit on ext
150036 and ext 150036, respectively
Largest drugs haul in Essex
Three men from south Essex have
appeared in court after the force
recovered our largest-ever cocaine haul
A six-month-long investigation by officers from the Kent
and Essex Serious Crime Directorate (SCD) resulted in
two arrests on October 6 when a 29-year-old man was
arrested near Ardleigh and a 30-year-old arrested in
Bowers Gifford.
Officers also recovered 16kgs of cocaine which, together
with a further 8kgs they recovered the previous night in
Beckton, east London, has an estimated street value of
£5million.
The two men arrested were each charged with one
count of conspiring to supply a Class A drug.
A 28-year-old man was arrested in Waltham Abbey
early last month in connection with the same operation
and £250,000 was recovered from an Epping house. He
was charged with one count of being in possession of
criminal property.
All three have since appeared at Chelmsford Magistrates’
Court, prior to Crown Court committal proceedings.
Capt Peel’s family museum visit
The Peel family
outside the Chief’s
House at Essex
Police HQ
The family of former Essex Chief Constable
Captain Jonathan Peel visited HQ in the summer
Sir Jonathan, as he later became, was youngest-ever
Chief Constable when he took command of the Bath
City force in 1931. Two years later, he became Chief
Constable of Essex.
His daughter Angela Marks and her family visited
Essex Police Museum – where Captain Peel’s uniform
is displayed – and then DCC Derek Benson opened the
Chief’s House for a guided tour.
Mrs Marks’ husband Ian asked Captain Peel for her
hand in marriage in the waiting room of the Chief’s
House, which they knew as the smoking room.
UPBEAT November 2012