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their positions in the Tactical Support Groups and neighbourhood policing teams.This is another area where the Policing Board will have to ensure a close oversight role to ensurethat the Police Service is able to bring together these disparate pieces. Although increasedpolitical and community support as a result of the political accord should assist, there is anincreasing risk that beyond 2010, as a result of spending reviews, financial pressures and theinability of the Police Service to bring all this together, the communities will be left with a reducedpolicing presence and very little of the local part-time representation in policing envisaged by theIndependent Commission.Recommendation 104: Enlargement of the Part Time ReservePatten Recommendation:104. There should be an enlarged Part Time Reserve of up to 2,500 officers, the additional recruitsto come from those areas in which there are currently very few reservists or none at all.Lead Responsibility: NIO/Chief ConstableRecommendation StatusFull compliance with this recommendation has not yet been achieved (Moderate Progress).HistoryIn August of 2001 the Government confirmed the objective to recruit Part Time Reserve (PTR)officers in under-represented areas. In 2003 the Police Service received approval from the PolicingBoard to recruit PTR officers in under-represented areas, and to deploy 2,500 PTR officers in 29districts. A recruiting contract was awarded to the Consensia Partnership, with 2,400 applicationsreceived during a pilot project, with 19% coming from the Catholic or Nationalist areas. ThePolice Service determined that this pilot did not satisfy the intent of the recommendation, as only12 Catholics were among the 125 new PTR officers initially selected for employment.In 2004 the Police Service advised that the second recruitment effort would adhere to theprinciple of targeting areas from which there were few or no reserve members, with the new PTRofficers designated as Police Officer Part Time (POPT). A revised job description and a mandatorytraining programme were included. Later, the Police Service reached an agreement with thePolicing Board to delay further recruitment, as the second initiative would also fail to achieve thegoal to have the new POPT coming from areas that are currently under-represented.The Police Service received approval from the Policing Board in 2006 for a third plan. The goal ofthe third plan is to appoint an additional 150 reservists in 2007 that were recruited in five newdistricts (Moyle, Foyle, Ballymoney, Newry and Mourne, and South Belfast) where there were fewreservists or none at all. Of the 106 applicants recruited from the five districts, only 20% areconsidered Roman Catholic. This low percentage from the Catholic Community suggestscontinuing difficulty in recruiting representative Catholic numbers, and it is not known at this stageif recent political developments might eventually increase participation rates.128
structure of the police serviceThe Policing Board has announced a “desire to meet and implement the requirements of theIndependent Commission in a way which meets the needs of policing today while taking accountof developments in England and Wales”. This plan described the emergence of a new programme -the Police Community Support Officer (PCSO). The plan established a combination of 400 PCSOsand 900 POPT with the duties of the PCSO considerably different from those of the POPT. ThePCSOs would be community based and employed full-time serving in an unarmed non-lawenforcement capacity.During interviews with several DCU commanders support was found for expanding the PTRprogramme (eight hours per week) over the creation of a civilian community support employeewho would be employed 40 hours per week. At the same time, other commanders supported theintroduction of the PCSO position over receiving additional part time reservists. Each of the prosand cons for expanding the POPT programme or for establishing the PCSO programme has merit.The key issue for both programmes is whether the POPT selected are representative of thecommunity where they will serve.Due to attrition and other factors, by April of 2007 there were 850 POPT who migrated from theprevious programme or who were selected from two initial recruiting pilots. The total of 850 parttime reservists is far less than the 2,500 recommended by the Independent Commission.Remaining IssuesThere has been limited progress during the past six years in fully implementing thisrecommendation. While this can in part be attributed to a lack of full political and communitysupport for the Police Service and the reluctance of potential part time recruits to join the PoliceService, there remains a burden on everyone to pursue the aims of this recommendation. Thisrecommendation envisioned PTRs substituting for regular officers who may need to be redeployedtemporarily to deal with public order policing demands. If the Police Service response to publicorder situations does not routinely require temporary support from police officers assigned todistrict police stations, then the Independent Commission’s recommendation for a total of 2,500PTRs may no longer be relevant, or the number significantly reduced.Even though the Policing Board approved the new position of PCSO, and we agree with its validity,this position was not one of the Independent Commission’s recommendations. The desire toestablish a PCSO programme should not be seen as a reason for delaying implementation of theprevious commitment to augmenting the PTR, or as it is now known the POPT programme.129
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powers. The three holding centres,
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which benchmark and measure trainin
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communities can sort out what works
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Recommendation 21:The Powers of the
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policing plans.At the same time, ma
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(2004) showed that only 39% of resp
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We conclude, therefore, that althou
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HistoryThe RIPA (2000) provides for
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the army, as well as by the police.
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General Issues• Ensuring robust a
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