Report detail

The Authority Corporate Strategy for 2023 -2026 was agreed at the Authority meeting in March 2023. The strategy sets out the role and responsibilities of the Authority and describes the five outcomes we seek to achieve over the three-year period, along with high level activities designed to achieve them.

The 2024-25 Delivery Plan underpins the Strategy with 15 activities and 48 actions tracked to support performance reporting. Specific milestones were defined in the annual delivery plan, which allows tracking and reporting of progress on a quarterly basis.

The report detailed at appendix A summarised delivery of the annual delivery plan for 2024-25. 243 milestones were due to be achieved in year two of the strategy.

Over 2024-25 88% (214) of the milestones defined for delivery in the year were completed, with a further 11% (28) carried forward for delivery in 2025-26. 1% (3) actions were closed during the year.

Given the resourcing and capacity challenges faced over the year, and the significant ambition described in year two through 243 milestones, it is felt that 88% delivery represents a successful year for the Authority.

The Authority’s corporate team delivered a number of key achievements over 2024-25 as described in appendix A. This includes delivery of key events and briefings on issues of public interest such as Taser, drones and Body Worn Video; delivery of joint Biometrics in Criminal Justice conference; delivery of senior officer recruitment; benchmarking across policing and public bodies including PEEL practice compendium work.

There were 28 milestones that could not be fully completed during the year and have been carried forward to the 2025-26 plan.

Looking forward to year three, the final year of the current three-year corporate strategy, our annual delivery plan for 2025-26 contains 44 action areas that will continue to be reported through committee on a quarterly basis.