{"id":45741,"date":"2014-07-29T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a701cb8eacf4ba912362ee35206c6de7"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T13:46:58","slug":"news-story-home-office-rewards-police-innovation-with-50-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45741","title":{"rendered":"News story: Home Office rewards police innovation with \u00a350 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Every police force in England and Wales will receive a share of a \u00a350 million Home Office fund for projects aimed at transforming policing through innovation and collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>The successful schemes include investment in body-worn camera, groundbreaking forensics techniques and joint working between the police and fire service.<\/p>\n<p>Forces were awarded money for new approaches to tackle anti-social behaviour and rural crime; a project to help young runaways; and work to improve the way the police interact with people with mental health problems.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"new-ideas\">New ideas<\/h2>\n<p>Policing Minister Mike Penning said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I am delighted that every police force in the country showed such a positive, forward-thinking attitude and came to us with new ideas and ways of working.<\/p>\n<p>It meant we could allocate \u00a350 million to some really innovative projects and I am already looking forward to visiting forces and seeing the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Crime has fallen by more than 10 per cent under this government. I believe we can help the police do their job even better by encouraging them to embrace new technology and build on ideas coming from the grass roots.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Police Innovation Fund is in its first full year of operation and up to \u00a350 million will be allocated every 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Home Office made a precursor fund of \u00a320 million available to Police and Crime Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>Each of the 43 police forces in England and Wales will benefit from the Fund this year. <\/p>\n<h2 id=\"innovative\">Innovative<\/h2>\n<p>Among the most innovative of the 85 proposals to receive funding this time were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A joint bid of \u00a3431,000 by Nottinghamshire and Lancashire Police to reduce the processing time for a DNA profile from four or five days to two hours.<\/li>\n<li>Eight forces \u2013 Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire, the Met, Hampshire, Durham, City of London, Merseyside and North Wales \u2013 will share more than \u00a34 million to spend on body worn camera technology.<\/li>\n<li>The Metropolitan Police successfully bid for \u00a3113,000 to help develop a new spray which will be able to quickly identify body fluids at crime scenes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All forces in England and Wales benefit from Police Innovation Fund<\/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\/45741"}],"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=45741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}