Collaboration

Involves all five forces providing specialist crime services relating to Major Crime Investigation, Organised Crime Group Management, Forensic Services and Intelligence to name but a few.

Provides a regional approach to tackling terrorism and the domestic extremism threat across all five forces in the East Midlands region.

Operates across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire providing cost effective and innovative solutions to learning needs for policing.

Provides legal advice to Police and Crime Commissioners and Chief Constables across all five forces in the East Midlands region in areas such as employment, court and disciplinary, civil litigation and commercial law.

As a result of the Parker Review, the Association of Chief Police Officers of England, Wales and Northern Ireland (“ACPO”) was disbanded on or around 31 March 2015. To deliver some of the functions that were previously carried out by ACPO, on 1 April 2015 the Parties established a new co-ordinating body known as the National Police Chiefs’ Council (the “NPCC”).

The NPCC enables operationally independent and locally accountable Chief Officers to co-ordinate the work of the police service in order to protect the public. The National Police Collaboration Agreement sets out how police forces and Police and Crime Commissioners will collaborate and coordinate nationally and help establish the National Police Chief’s Council based on the agreement of Chief Constables, Police and Crime Commissioners and the Home Secretary.

Established in October 2012, NPAS provides borderless air support to the 46 police forces of England and Wales.  The Secretary of Sta made the Police (Collaboration: Specified Function) Order 2012, under Section 23FA of the Police Act 1996, specifying air support as a critical national function to be carried out through a single national collaboration agreement for England and Wales.

Set up in April 2013, The National Police Co-ordination Centre enables operationally independent and locally accountable Chief Officers to co-ordinate national operations on behalf of the Chief Officers in order to protect the public. The Parties have agreed to collaborate with each other in relation to the running, the carrying out of the functions, the funding and the establishment of NPoCC.

Established in April 2005, the CNC is responsible for the armed protection of civil nuclear facilities and materials whether they are on site or in transit.

This is a national collaboration of police forces working to prevent, deter and investigate terrorism in the United Kingdon.  It is made up of dedicated regional Counter Terrorism Units and national police units and is responsible for the delivery of the policing contributions to the CONTEST strategy.

Replacing a previous collaboration agreement in relation to property and wireless interference, this collaboration agreement stems from the belief that criminal investigations which overlap the geographical area of two or more police forces can more efficiently and effectively be discharged by the co-operation and collaboration of those police forces.  It is believed that such co-operation and collaboration would be enhanced by utilising the arrangements permissible under relevant legislation.

The management of criminal records is a national service that has been carried out by ACRO as part of Hampshire Constabulary since 2014.  To help formalise this arrangement a national S.22 collaboration agreement (as amended) has been developed to provide governance for this service provision.

National Ballistics Intelligence Service (NABIS) is tasked with gathering and disseminating fast time intelligence on the criminal use of firearm to the police service and partner agencies.  One of its primary functions is to identify the types of weapons that are being used illegally and co-ordinating national activity to remove these weapons from circulation.

Following the Parker Review, a number of national policing functions have been embodied in national collaboration agreements to ensure their continuity in a formalised manner. In this particular instance, 3 of those functions – the National Vehicle Crime Intelligence Service, the National Police Freedom of Information and Data Protection Unit and the National Wildlife Service – are to be formalised in a single collaboration agreement.

This collaboration agreement supports a programme of development of the modern slavery agenda taking forward recommendations made in a review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015.

From November 2017, the NPCC agreed to implement a national collaboration agreement to support CHIS (Covert Human Intelligence Sources) authorisation for the purposes of counter terrorism and combating domestic extremism.

Created in 2020, the FCIN collaboration across the 43 police forces in England and Wales which defines the standards for Forensic Collision Investigation and ensuring compliance to regulatory standards.

Established in 2019, this agreement was entered into the support that ambition to develop digital channels to make the experience of contacting the police as helpful, personal and reassuring as approaching an officer in the street.  The Single Online Home platform will offer the public a consistent way of engaging with their local police force and accessing police services and information online wherever they are in the country.

SSAS provides a platform to enhance shared situational awareness, connectivity and visibility of resources deployed on surveillance and firearms operations and has been developed following recommendations from several public enquiries into police incidents. This collaboration was entered into in order ot increase the efficiency and cost effectiveness of procuring the system from a supplier.