2025 Decisions
This page is where you can view the decisions made by Leicestershire's Police and Crime Commissioner in 2025. For a summary of a decision and a copy of the Decision Record, please click the name of the Decision Record below:
This decision relates to the Rural Crime round of funding of the 2025 - 2026 financial year, ring fenced for Community Action Fund.
This funding round opened on 01/09/2025 and closed on 17/10/2025. 20 applications were submitted during this time and scored as per the eligibility and scoring criteria.
Upon review, 8 bids were approved to be awarded funding which equates to £68,383.77
This decision relates to the Legacy round of funding of the 2024-2025 financial year; ring fenced for People Zones.
This funding round opened on 01/09/2025 and closed on 10/10/2025. 10 applications were submitted during this time. Partnership & Commissioning Officers Lily Thorne and Oli Childerhouse graded each application and made recommendations for funding.
3 applications scored 70% or above, 4 applications scored 60% or above and 3 applications scored 40% or above. For this round, it was decided that applications scoring 65% and above would be awarded funding, providing all criteria is met. In this round, that resulted in 5 bids being recommended.
Upon review, the Senior Management Team approved to fund the recommended 5 bids. This equates to a funding commitment of £122,918.76.
Leicestershire Police requires the provision of Lenovo ThinkPads Laptops. It was agreed to publish a further competition. The opportunity has been awarded to British Telecommunications Plc.
Leicestershire Police are a long standing Unit ERP Customer having implemented the ERP software in 2016. Following the announcement by Unit4 regarding the end of life of on-premise systems the Force is looking to migrate to the cloud based Unit 4 SaaS solution, Unit4 ERP CR in line with the Force IT strategy.
The SaaS is to include the infrastructure, hardware, system software, monitoring,
management and maintenance of the entire solution – including back-ups, disaster recovery and software updates with an expected availability of 99.8%.
The current agreement with Softcat Plc is due to expire 26th December 2025. Bluelight Commercial, SailPoint and Softcat Plc have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to continue the SailPoint services provided to UK Police Forces.
The Force has been in contractual agreement with Softcat Plc for the provision of SailPoint since 2020. The Force intends to utilise the MOU and renew SailPoint Services for a further 3-year period.
Leicestershire Police employs a mobile policing solution that enables officers and staff to work in an agile fashion and access facilities such as remote statements, traffic offence reports and crime reporting wherever they are. Previously we were heavily reliant on paper ticket books and statements, which necessitated officers returning to their station for admin work, created inefficiencies in our processes, and caused significant expenditure on paper and printing.
To allow them to operate in an agile manner, officers and staff are provided with laptops and mobile phones which can run mobile policing software to allow them to spend more time out of the station and deal with a significant proportion of their administration remotely.
The GoodSAM Instant suite of products centres on the app-less video system enabling services to open any callers smartphone camera and have one or multi-way consultations and then use powerful AI systems. Video Forwarding, Instant Location, Evidence Upload and Document signing are some of the additional functions.
GoodSAM offers unique features that are not provided by any other supplier. An example of this is Network Exemption. GoodSAM is the only product available on the market offering this comprehensive suite of functionality tailored for emergency service use, and the only emergency live video product that has been ‘Zero Rated’ by major UK mobile networks – meaning that where victims of Domestic Abuse or 999 callers are invited to use the service by Leicestershire Police, there is no impact on their mobile data allowance – it is free to use and will work even if the user has no remaining data.
The Police and Crime Commissioner undertook a review of the funding provision for the Community Safety Partnerships (known as CSPs) across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland in December 2022 and new allocations were agreed across the 9 CSPs that were based on relevant data across population sizes, crime per 1000 and the crime harm index across the 9 areas. A formula was devised to help distribute the funding based on a balance of these three criteria.
Leicestershire Police require the provision of AVS Cloud Migration. This tender exercise has been conducted via the CCS G-Cloud Framework which has resulted in a direct award to ANS. The award has been approved by Assistant Chief Officer – Finance and we are asking the Police Commissioner to sign the contract & to add his seal.
The current contract for the provision of payroll services for Leicestershire Police is provided by Midland HR (MHR). The contract commenced on 1st May 2021 for an initial period of two years with options to extend for a further 2 x 12 months.
Following extensive market research, and the evaluation of financial and resource costs it was found to be prohibitive to conduct an open tender process for future provision. The costs incurred over the life of the current agreement including implementation, training and development mean is not economically savvy to potentially change suppliers at this time.
The direction of travel chosen was to engage the current provider for a further to term in order to take full financial advantage of investments already made.
Round 2 opened for applications on 2nd December 2024 and closed on 6th January 2025. 58 applications were submitted during this time, with 1 application later being withdrawn, therefore totalling 57 applications.
The applications were assessed in line with the Commissioners Safety Fund criteria and moderated by a panel on 20/01/2025 – 27/01/2025. Of the 57, 17 applications scored 75% or above (with 1 later withdrawing), 5 scored 71.15%, 20 scored between 61%-70% and 15 scored less than 60%.
Due to the volume of applications and the quality of bids received, the decision was made award funding to applications scoring 75% or higher, for a total of £158,398.68.
This decision relates to the third round of funding of the 2024-2025 financial year, ring fenced for People Zones.
Round 3 of the People Zones Grants Fund opened on 06/01/2025 and closed on 03/02/2025.
11 applications were submitted during this time. 3 were later disqualified for not meeting the criteria of the People Zones Grants Fund.
Community Development Officers Lily Thorne and James O’Connell, as well as Community Development Lead Jessica Ball, individually marked each application during the period 04/02/2025 - 06/02/2025, and then moderated their scores on 06/02/2025.
Two applications scored 70% or above, one application scored 60% or above and three applications scored 45% or above.
For this round, it was decided that applications scoring 45% and above would be awarded funding, providing all criteria is met. In this round, that resulted in six bids being recommended.
Upon review, the Senior Management Team approved to fund the recommended six bids. This equates to a funding commitment of £40,474.77.