Coventry’s police say they’ll still come out to you if needed – despite saying they’ll give people in the city appointments in future.
It’s part of a raft of changes the West Midlands force are making to deal with heavy budget cuts – who need to save around £38 million in the next twelve months alone.
Neighbourhood teams will also be made smaller, but redeployed to tackle anti-social behaviour more effectively.
In addition, West Midlands Police are changing how they run their help desk, their incident response team and putting more staff on investigations to solve crimes more quickly.
However, there’ll be no change to emergency 999 callouts, for incidents including muggings and burglaries.
Deputy Chief Constable Dave Thompson said: “The changes are the first stage of a four year programme to modernise the force.”
“The structural changes will see leaner more efficient systems being introduced and are based on models that have proven successful in other forces and in industry.”
“As we move forward as a force we are constantly looking at how we can improve our service to the public.”
“The public want to know we are there when they need us, whether that’s as a rapid response to a 999 call or as a scheduled appointment to investigate a crime. They want us to focus on solving crime and being a part of their community.”
“The new structure will allow us to do just that.”
Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2011 4:52 pm