About the Constabulary

Our County

Derbyshire Police delivers policing services to nearly one million people living in Derbyshire. We serve a region of over 1,000 square miles. Derbyshire is renowned for being hugely diverse. It encompasses the rural areas of the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales, for example, as well as old mining communities, modern towns and business centres. It is also home to the vibrant and culturally diverse city of Derby.

In addition, Derbyshire is surrounded by a number of large town and cities, Manchester and Sheffield to the north, Nottingham and Leicestershire to the east and Birmingham to the South, all of this impacts on the demand and challenges of policing our county.

Our People

Derbyshire Police employs some 2072 police officers and a further 160 Police Community Support Officers. In addition the Constabulary also employs a further 1400 police staff members in areas such as our contact management centre, forensic investigation as well as other support services.

Our Organisation and Structure

The Constabulary is headed by the Chief Constable Mick Creedon, who in turn is supported by a team of Chief Officers, comprising his Deputy and two Assistant Chief Constables as well as the Force’s Director of Finance.

Derbyshire Constabulary is split into 4 Policing Divisions responsible for delivering day to day policing services to local people. In turn these divisions are broken down into 3 to 4 sections at a more local level.

More specialised policing services are delivered by two central divisions. The Operations Division is responsible for Roads Policing, Emergency Planning, Dogs Section and the Force Helicopter. The Crime Support Division deals with major crime, including serious and organised crime. It also is responsible for a range of protective services including Domestic Violence and Child Protection.

Our Risks and Challenges

The Force is committed to delivering local neighbourhood policing across 103 safer neighbourhood areas across the county. This is delivered by a mix of police officers and police community support officers.

As well as policing at a local level, the force has key responsibilities to protect the public from risk and harm. This includes the growing challenge of Domestic Violence, Child Protection and Serious and Organised Crime.

As with any organisation faced with limited resources, the force has had to prioritise its investment based on its key risks which are set out below.

Operational Risks	Organisational Risks
1. Level 2 Organised Crime Groups	1. Finance
2. Terrorism	2. Managing our People
3= Drugs Supply	3. Managing our Information
3= Gangs & Delinquent Peer Groups	4. Safer Detention of Prisoners
5. Detection Levels	5. Protecting our Organisational Integrity
6. Alcohol Related Crime	6. Managing our Infrastructure
7. Recorded Crime	7. Business Continuity
8. Gun Crime
9. Anti-Social Behaviour
10. Overall Community Cohesion

Partnership working with the County Council, City Council and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships Play a key part in addressing these risks.

Our Performance

Derbyshire Police has achieved the 7th biggest reduction in crime over the last five years. There are now some 25,600 fewer victims of crime in Derbyshire than 5 years ago.

Our Future

Our commitment is to deliver a quality policing services to everyone in Derbyshire. As we understand more about the risk and threat that we need to address, we face the challenge of finding extra resources to deal with them.

We are not a well funded force and this year alone we will lose out on some £5.6m of government grant. This means that we have to do all we can to make the very most of the limited resources that we have.

Part of this is to look at ways that we can use IS and IT to become more efficient.