Forward Facing Flashcards
How will you manage budgets on your team?
WHY
1. GMP - Public Accountability
2. Public - We all have to manage a budget, police no different
3. Me - Operational efficiency
HOW
1. Manage Spending
- identify key priorities
- assess spending habits to eliminate waste
- ensure budget decisions align with POAP
- robust ordering process
- track expenditure
- Regularly review
- Manage Resources
- all staff working efficiently
- IT being used effectively
- challenge unnecessary OT
- uniform requests
- mileage requests
- sickness / wellbeing- Sgts £800k / CDOs £1m p/a
- reduce OT
- encourage/support people back to work
- Regularly review
- Sgts £800k / CDOs £1m p/a
- Cost-conscious culture
- Educate members on importance of financial accountability and responsible spending
- Involve staff in identifying savings and encourage innovation solutions
- Justify and document all spending to ensure transparency and compliance with policymakers
How do you manage capacity and capability on your team?
WHY
HOW
1. Manage Resources Effectively
- Make sure that sufficient officers are always on duty
- Forward plan to spot any problems
- Adequate staffing prevents burnout etc and stops sickness
- Wellbeing of staff to prevent sickness
- Mental Health support to keep officers focused
- All officers are suitably equipped
- Officers are responding and dealing with incidents in a timely manner
- Training and equipment enhances officer safety
- Use data-driven policing,
- Team Accountability Packs,
- intelligence
- Assign offices based on their skill set,
- Focus of key threats and force priorities
- BWV improves accountability and reduces paperwork
- Strengthen ties with communities to gather intelligence
- Cross-agency cooperation
Reduce bureaucracy and paperwork by streamlining procedures
- Daily briefings to cover resource allocation and tasks
Know the demand
Know officers workload
- Continuous training
- Officers are up to date with all their training
- If an officer attends a course not available to all, get them to provide a presentation on a training day to feedback learning
- New laws and policies require up-to-date knowledge and skills
- Use training days to update officers on new procedures
- Use reward and recognition to reinforce good performance
- Use de-briefs/briefings to talk through and have a Q&A in relation jobs that where there is learning.
- Create a culture of continuous learning where staff ask each other questions
- Use reminders such as posters, PDF’s, have Teams channels for resources and system processes - Governance
- Organisational learning tracker for corporate memory of learning
- Constantly reviewing staffing levels well in advance so that RMU’s can plan ahead
- Making sure 1-2-1’s and PDR’s are being done that will cover officer welfare to prevent officers going off sick
- Check the daily rolling log every day to view any problems that may have occur and place on your radar for future planning
- Dip sample records
- Spot check things like use of kit, crime records for efficiency
- Be aware of themes for recognition and complaints.
- Are people working efficiently, constantly sat in the station
How will you assess and identify capacity and capability on your team?
Understand workload and demand
Evaluate skills and competencies
Monitor performance and development
How will you identify and use new ways of working?
Continuous training and professional development.
Engaging with community and officer feedback.
Internal culture and leadership support.
Add: Evidence based approach
How do you look to improve processes on your team?
Continuous training and professional development.
Engaging with community and officer feedback.
Internal culture and leadership support.
How will you use your skills and experience to drive future improvements within GMP?
Leadership
Experience
Strategic thinking
How will you ensure that performance within your team is in line with the force’s current vision?
Communicate vision and expectations
Monitor performance and address under performance
Lead by example and positive culture
How do you manage your own performance and wellbeing?
Time management and set goals
Support from peers and mentors
Manage stress and wellbeing
What can you bring to the role to improve performance?
Leadership
Experience
Strategic Thinking
How do you empower people to take responsibility on your team?
Communication
Monitor performance / Governance
Positive attitude
How do you encourage people to challenge others on your team?
Lead by example
Development / Support
Act on challenges / reward
How would you manage or change a culture on your team?
Define
Reinforce
Monitor
How will you ensure your team supports a culture which values DEI?
Lead by example
Foster inclusive team culture
Ensure equal opportunities for all
How will you promote diversity, equality and inclusion on your team?
Lead by example
Foster inclusive team culture
Ensure equal opportunities for all
How will you create an environment whereby yourself and your team challenge inappropriate behaviours to create a positive working environment?
Lead by example
Development / Support
Foster inclusive team culture
How will you create an inclusive environment that ensures all staff and officers feel valued particularly student officers who GMP are struggling to retain.
Lead by example
Open communication
Support and mentor networks
How do you manage relationships on your team?
Leadership
Clear communicaiton
Culture of respect
How will you build relationships to improve public service?
Community engagement and visibility
Partnerships with local organisations
Effective communication and transparency
How will you Develop and maintain relationships with communities and multi-agency partners to drive collaboration?
How would you work with partners on your team?
Build relationships by identifying key stake holders and establishing trust
Facilitating communication
Problem solving jointly
How will you work with partners to reduce repeat demand for the benefit of victims across GM?
Identify key partners
Focus on early intervention
Share data and intelligence
How would you work in effective partnership?
Build strong relationships and open communication
Define shared goals and responsibilities
Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
As an Inspector, how will you drive collaboration with partners?
Build strong relationships and open communication
Define shared goals and responsibilities
Foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
How will you work with external partners to reduce demand for the long term
Identify key partners
Focus on early intervention
Share data and intelligence
