Professional Recovery 370

PROFUPDATE
Statement
from NPCC
As a result of concerns raised by PROF in relation to
increasing costs and pricing models the NPCC sent a
questionnaire out to all Police Forces. All Forces responded
to our questions. The responses received have provided us
with a national view of some of the concerns. The concerns
in the main related to recovery and storage fee’s along with
facilities required for the examination of vehicles.
In my capacity as NPCC VRG Chair I along with Mick Burke
presented the findings from the questionnaire to NPCC Chief
Constable Jo Shiner who is the lead for Roads Policing. It
is envisaged that a letter will be sent from her to all Forces
recommending a variety of actions. This will be followed
up with a police only conference in January 2023 where
we will be able to articulate the concerns, discuss the data
and suggest ways to improve. We will be inviting each force
commercial leads as well as the Vehicle Recovery Group.
This is a very positive step forward (and is in addition to the
stat fee issue).
I would like to thank Richard Goddard (PROF), Derek
Firminger (PROF), Mac Hobbs (Hobbs Recovery) and Nick
Ovenden (IVR) who articulated their concerns extremely well.
We are listening.
Stat Fees
Latest Update
In regards to Stat Fee’s, the situation as of the 21st November is
the Home Office now have Policing Minister’s clearance and will be
relaunching the process to seek collective agreement from across
Government on publication of the Consultation Response, we hope
to be able to provide further update in the coming weeks.
Terry Hunt
NPCC VRG Chairman
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