Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, 21st January 2010

This event profiled the potential benefits of “mixed economy policing” (essentially a blend of police officers and specialist police staff working together in a front-line operational setting). The concept aims to address several of the major challenges which currently face the Scottish Police Service by:

• creating opportunities to significantly increase front-line policing capacity from existing resources
• creating a more flexible workforce which achieves a much closer match of skills to specific tasks
• creating a more efficient and cost-effective service
• improving the quality of service proved to victims of crime and witnesses

Programme

Chair: Professor Nick Fyfe (Director, SIPR, University of Dundee)

• Chief Constable Kevin Smith (Central Scotland Police) Introduction
• Superintendent Gavin Buist & Superintendent Robbie McGregor (Central Scotland Police) From vision to reality and taking Mixed Economy policing forwards
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• Kenneth Scott (University of the West of Scotland) Evaluating the Mixed Economy Model in Central Scotland Police
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• Derek Mann (NPIA) Workforce modernisation: creating an opportunity
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• Discussion
  Podcast – 14 Minutes [12.5 Mb]

(l to r) McGregor, Buist, Mann, Fyfe