{"id":34774,"date":"2013-11-14T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=171eb89edaddae6aba309fd324385794"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T11:53:00","slug":"news-story-policing-minister-announces-20-million-funding-for-pccs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=34774","title":{"rendered":"News story: Policing Minister announces \u00a320 million funding for PCCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Policing Minister Damian Green today announced that \u00a320 million will be made available to Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to pay for new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The government previously said a Police Innovation Fund worth up to \u00a350 million a year would be established from 2014-15.<\/p>\n<p>But \u00a320 million will shortly be made available as a \u201cprecursor\u201d fund, from which PCCs can bid for money to pay for proposals with the potential to improve policing and make it more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>They could include ideas for forces to collaborate or invest in modern digital technology. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"anniversary\">Anniversary<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/damian-greens-speech-to-the-association-of-pccs\">The announcement<\/a> was made today at an event in London where PCCs gathered to mark the anniversary of their first year in office.<\/p>\n<p>Policing Minister Damian Green said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I know that many of you have been asking for more details on the Police Innovation Fund.<\/p>\n<p>This fund will incentivise collaboration, support improved digital working and enable PCCs to invest in a range of other innovative delivery approaches that have the potential to improve policing and deliver further efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>But innovation shouldn\u2019t have to wait and we know PCCs are keen to access this funding now in order to press ahead with transformation in their forces.<\/p>\n<p>So today I am pleased to announce that, ahead of the first full year of the fund, we will be making \u00a320 million available to PCCs as a precursor Innovation Fund in this financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">We will be writing out with further details on the bidding process and criteria shortly, and I don\u2019t think I will need to encourage you to consider putting forward bids.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s event was organised by the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovation Fund will pay for ideas to improve policing, says Damian Green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}