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The study will lead to a national report and a value for money handbook, showing how police forces and police authorities could continue to deliver community safety and well-being with fewer resources. It will also lead to audit and benefit realisation tools.

Policing: More for Less focuses on:

• Saving money from internal changes while improving or maintaining effectiveness. The study looks at the potential for reducing costs through better workforce planning (shift arrangements, use of police community support officers and wider use of civilian staff) and the potential for increased back office efficiency (simplified processes, better procurement). 
• Working with partners to reduce resource needs. The study looks at the potential for savings from shared procurement and back office arrangements. It also looks at the potential for savings where police forces share resources, information, and prevention activity with crime and disorder reduction partnership and local area agreement partners. 
• Supporting long-term efficiencies and short-term savings. The study reviews police force and authority arrangements for challenge and scrutiny of resource management.

We will produce:

• a national report with key messages for police forces and authorities, and for national stakeholders in summer 2010; 
• a benefits realisation tool to help police forces achieve more for less in autumn 2010; 
• improvement tools to help police forces and police authorities deliver greater savings while maintaining or improving effectiveness in summer 2010; and 
• a handbook including case studies to help police forces identify best practice and achieve more savings in autumn 2010.