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Assisted Implementation

Supporting the police service to implement change through guidance and support at a local and national level.

NPIA provides assisted implementation support to the police service in reducing crime, maintaining order, bringing criminals to justice and protecting and reassuring the public by helping forces to achieve optimum benefit from improvement programmes and projects.

Our services are generally commissioned by ACPO (the Association of Chief Police Officers) to support improvements and developments in areas that pose significant risk to the public or police service should implementation fail.

Recognising that change is not achieved by simply publishing and delivering documents to organisations without explanation of how to put it into practice we provide advice on critical success factors from the outset along with tailored support on a local and national basis. This support enables forces to benefit from improvement programmes or projects, which often result from the publication of codes, guidance or practice advice.

Current assisted implementation projects are:

  • Protective Services
  • Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR)
  • Professionalising Investigation Programme (PIP)
  • Safer Detention and Handling of Persons in Custody
  • Managing MAPPA Offenders and PDPs

Assisted implementation strategy

Our strategy has evolved from our experience of implementing the National Intelligence Model and other significant products that offer quality and consistency to major change programmes.  The strategy includes:

  • A tailored level of support
  • Defining critical elements and assets
  • Capability assessment 
  • Action Plan
  • Peer review including force review process
  • Identification of benefits
  • Continued support from identified team
  • Specialist Operations Centre

We can help forces focus in critical areas and identify those that need reviewing and developing.  Our services are often supported by national learning and development products to help up-skill staff, including e-learning through the Managed Learning Environment (MLE) and technology solutions to aid data collection and other process driven activity. 

Our dedicated implementation capability helps ensure that doctrine, training and other products are current, relevant and able to draw on good practice.  This allows consistent application of national standards and can identify other potential benefits such as:

  • Reduced interpretation of guidance
  • Reduced duplication of effort
  • Identification and sharing of good practice
  • Benchmarking and review
  • National support mechanism.

We are currently developing this area of our web site to keep forces up to date with our latest developments and more information on assisted implementation will be available shortly.