Glossary of Terms

ABC

Activity Based Costing. A costing approach for police forces upon which future funding decisions will be based.

ABCs

Acceptable Behaviour Contracts.

ACC

Assistant Chief Constable.

ACPO

Association of Chief Police Officers.

ANPR

Automatic Number Plate Recognition System.

AOJ

Administration of Justice Department.

APA

Association of Police Authorities

APACS

Assessment of Policing and Community Safety. A new performance management framework developed by Home Office and introduced in April 2008

ASB

Anti-Social Behaviour.

ASBOs

Anti-Social Behaviour Orders.

Airwave

New national communication system for all police forces in England and Wales.

BCU

Basic Command Unit. Geographical command areas in police forces, there being 4 in Dyfed-Powys.

BOBB

Behave or Be Banned. Initiative aimed at dealing with crime and anti-social behaviour in licensed premises, which can see offenders banned from premises in a given area for a specific period

Bobby Van Scheme

Scheme to provide free security advice and installation of security measures at the properties of vulnerable crime victims, notably the elderly.

British Crime Survey

Annual survey of 40,000 people nationally to ascertain perception of crime. The government’s preferred measure of actual crime levels.

CCTV

Closed Circuit Television.

CDOs

Custody Detention Officers.

CJS

Criminal Justice System.

CLDP

Core Leadership Development Programme. A national programme aimed at improving the leadership and management skills of junior managers.

CMRD

Crime Management and Reduction Department. Perhaps better known in its former guise as CID, but also including the Force’s Communities and Partnerships Department.

Charter Mark

Nationally recognised standard identifying excellence in customer service provision.

Citizen Focus Programme Board

Force forum chaired by the Assistant Chief Constable overseeing all projects aiming to improve customer service.

Citizens Panel

A method of consultation drawing on a statistically significant, demographically representative cross section of the population.

Closing the Gap

Report produced by HMIC looking at the ability of Forces in England and Wales to deliver protective services. Led to recommendations for the creation of fewer, strategic forces across the country.

Community Intelligence

Community intelligence involves the flow of information between different communities and the police. It includes information about community problems and priorities, crime and disorder, changes in tension between different communities, changes in tension between people within the same community, risk and vulnerability and incoming communities.

Community Safety Accreditation Scheme

Introduced under the 2002 Police Reform Act, forces can work with local partners to identify and accredit organisations to widen the police family.

Community Safety Partnerships

Established under the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act, bringing together all partners in local authority areas to promote and improve community safety. Required to produce threeyear strategies to tackle crime and disorder, the latest being published in April 2005.

Confidence and Equality Board

Force forum that considers equality and confidence issues. The Board is mirrored by similar arrangements in our four divisions that consider more localised issues.

Control Strategy

A product of the National Intelligence Model, which sets out how identified priorities are going to be dealt with.

CaFSA

Calls for service analysis monitoring tool.

COMPACT

IT system for the management if missing persons inquiries.

CORA

Crime Overview Results and Analysis force performance monitoring tool.

CPD

Continuous Professional Development

CPS

Crown Prosecution Service

CRASBO

Criminal Anti-Social Behaviour Order.

CSR

Comprehensive Spending Review.

DfT

Department for Transport

DCC

Deputy Chief Constable.

DDA

Disability Discrimination Act.

DFR

Director of Finance & Resources.

DyPREN

Dyfed-Powys Race Equality Network.

Efficiency and Productivity Group

Force Group with Authority representation which brings together all elements of Force planning including finance, Human Resources, risk management and strategic planning.

Efficiency Gains

Each Force is required to secure annual efficiency gains equivalent to at least 3% of their annual budget, half of which must be cash releasing.

Force Communications Centre

A centre at Force Headquarters taking all emergency and nonemergency calls from members of the public.

HMIC

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary.

HR

The Force’s Human Resources department.

Investors in People

A nationally recognised standard in relation to people management and development.

IAG

Independent Advisory Group.

Independent Review of Policing

Report commissioned by the Home Secretary and published early in 2008.

IPLDP

Initial Police Learning and Development Programme. Project to return training of probationary constables to Forces and away from national centres.

IQuanta

National database publishing comparative performance data for all forces in England and Wales.

IS&T

The Force Information Systems and Technology Department.

LCJB

Local Criminal Justice Board.

LGBT

Lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender forum.

LNG

Liquefied Natural Gas.

Local Policing/Best Value Performance Plan

Annual document published by the Police Authority setting out performance of the Force in the previous year and setting priorities for the coming year.

Local Policing Charter

Document setting out the minimum standards of service that the public accessing Dyfed-Powys Police services can expect and what to do if someone wants to make a complaint.

Local Service Boards

New fora being promoted by the Welsh Assembly Government to bring public service delivery partners together on a local basis to enhance overall delivery. These bodies will complement the work currently undertaken by bodies such as Community Safety Partnerships.

Making the Connections

A Welsh Assembly Government programme to join up service delivery within Wales, focusing on issues such as procurement, delivering efficiency savings and putting the customer first.

MAPPA

Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements.

Market/Problem Profiles

Specific products of the National Intelligence Model (see below) to support Force tasking and coordination arrangements.

Mobile Data

Project to provide officers with the technology to access force and national systems away from police stations, thereby improving visibility. MoPI Management of Police Information. A programme setting standards on how police information is managed and stored, standards which must be met nationally.

MSF

Most Similar Forces. Groups of forces created by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary to promote performance comparisons.

NCHS

National Call Handling Standards.

NOS

National Occupational Standards. National Community Safety Plan Published by the Home Secretary each November and setting out all national objectives, targets and indicators in one document. National Crime Recording Standard A method of collating crime statistics, aimed at providing a more victim oriented approach and adopted by all forces in England and Wales from April 1st 2002.

National Intelligence Model

A national model for policing aimed at improving the way intelligence is used and resources deployed on a Force and divisional basis.

National Quality of Service Commitment

Also known as the ‘Coppers Charter’, set minimum levels of service for all forces in England and Wales. Achievement against this is continually monitored by the force.

National Standard for Incident Recording

Sets Minimum data requirements for the recording of non-crime incidents.

Neighbourhood Policing

Government initiative that promises to deliver named Neighbourhood Policing Teams across England and Wales by 2008.

OJCR

Office for Criminal Justice Reform. The cross-departmental team that supports all criminal justice agencies in working together to provide an improved service to the public.

Operation Tarian

Operation drawing together the three south Wales forces to tackle serious and organised crime and stem the flow of class A drugs into the area.

PACE

Police and Criminal Evidence Act.

PACT

Partnerships and Communities Together, meetings held by Neighbourhood Teams to obtain the views of local people on priorities for their area.

PAW

Police Authorities of Wales

PAT

Professional Assistance Template. Force system enabling managers to proactively supervise staff.

PDA

Personal Data Assistant

PRDLDP

Police Race and Diversity Learning and Development Programme.

PDRS

Personal Development Review System. Appraisal scheme for all staff in the Force to aid development and assess training needs.

Performance Management and Scrutiny Committee

Police Authority forum that scrutinises and challenges Force performance locally.

PIP

Professionalising the Investigation Programme. A national training programme aim at improving the investigative skills of officers.

PCSOs

Police Community Safety Officers, introduced under the 2002 Police Reform Act to support the work of police officers.

PNC

Police National Computer.

PPAF

Policing Performance Assessment Framework. Method for standardised performance comparison that applied to all forces in England and Wales up to March 2008

PPO

Prolific Priority Offender.

PSA

Public Service Agreement.

PURE

Police Use of Resources Evaluation, assessment scheme to gauge organisational effectiveness overseen in Wales by the Wales Audit Office.

PYO

Persistent Young Offender. Professionalising Customer Services Force Project examining how customers are treated in all interactions with us and how improvements can be made.

Protective Services

Police Services dealing with issues ranging from public protection and roads policing, to counter terrorism and serious and organised criminality.

Public Protection Units

Specific units established by the Force to cater for the most vulnerable people in our society including children, victims of domestic abuse and vulnerable adults.

RPU

Roads Policing Unit.

SARC

Sexual Assault Referral Centre. The first in the force has been established on the site of West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen.

SNEN

Single Non-Emergency number.

SPIs

Statutory Performance Indicators. Nationally collected measures set and revised annually by Home Office.

Safety Camera Partnerships

Joint initiatives with local authorities aimed at reducing numbers of accidents by reducing speed. Monies received through the scheme which are over and above costs incurred, must be returned to the Treasury.

SOCO

Scenes of Crime Officer

Strategic Assessments

Bi-annual product of the National Intelligence Model.

TIC

Offence taken into consideration.

True Vision

Initiative that promotes and encourages the reporting of hate crime.

VFGs

Virtual Focus Groups. An approach to consulting with the public using Internet and email technology.

Victims Code of Practice

New code introduced formally from April 2006 to ensure that victims receive a consistently high level of service from criminal justice service providers.

Volume Crime

Types of crime that occur frequently, such as theft and car crime.

Wales Audit Office

The appointed auditors for Dyfed- Powys Police Authority, who review the financial standing of the organisation and conduct reviews in a range of areas including crime data quality and activity based costing.

WECTU

Latest joint strategy between the Force and Authority to improve policing services locally.