Implementation of the Maldives Police Service Strategic Plan

Maldives Police Service• External Inspection Programme: The independent oversight body, Her Majesty’sInspectorate of Constabulary and Criminal Justice Inspection, is mandated to conductinspections on the police service against national benchmarks.• Efficiency Plan: In addition to the strategic projects, the police service is required to publisha Four-Year Efficiency Plan which will underpin all the continuous improvement projects.The Deputy Constable is responsible for formulating the Efficiency Plan.Public Consultation on Policing PlansConsultation with the community is an important aspect of policing. It provides an opportunityto explain the background, context and need for better policing and explains the objectives andvision of policing. There are few examples of consultation on policing plans that have been widelycarried out.Public Consultations on Policing Plan:The United Kingdom ExperiencePublic consultations form a critical part of the planning cycle of the Metropolitan Police Authority(MPA), an independent body mandated to ensure the accountability of the MetropolitanPolice Service (MPS) operating in London. The Authority set up a Strategic and OperationalPolicing Committee that is responsible for preparing and consulting on the annual Policingand Performance Plan. To do this, the MPA organises “Have Your Say on Policing in London”consultations in London every year that runs over five to six months. Advertisements promotingthe consultations are placed in various media including local authority publications, via emailto all respondents of previous years’ surveys, groups representing different organisations inLondon, to all Safe Neighbourhood sergeants and at various community meets attended andorganised by the MPA and MPS. In 2010, the consultations used four different sources toobtain information about Londoners’ priority for policing: 9•z•z•z•z•zA full qualitative survey asking Londoners to list their top three priorities for policingA shorter postcard-style questionnaire asking people to select their priorities from a set listA Public Attitudes Survey (PAS) conducted by the MPS every year to determine people’sperception of crime. Two questions are asked in the consultations around prioritiesincluded in the PASIn 2010, the MPA targeted the business community specifically and circulated a slightlydifferent questionnaire to business groups asking them to identify the top three policingpriorities for their businesses.The analysis of the consultations are then discussed by the MPA committee and passedon to the MPS to be used in the development of the Policing Plan. The MPA publishesthe report of the consultations on policing priorities as well as the minutes of all theirmeetings on their website.9“Public consultations results to inform the Policing London Business Plan, 2012/13,” Metropolitan Police Authority,Publications, Policing Plan, available at: http://www.mpa.gov.uk/publications/policingplans/14Strategic Plan 2007-2011: An Analysis