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Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Police Authorities to set up joint road policing unit |
Joint function will save both forces around £654,000 in its first full year
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Police Authorities are to set up a joint road policing unit.
The new joint unit will include officers and staff from both forces and cover both areas.
It will deal with all road policing issues, including traffic patrols, the deployment and development of Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology, investigations into serious road collisions and road deaths, traffic management and vehicle recovery.
In its first full year, the joint function will save both forces around£654,000 and this is expected to increase in subsequent years to almost £700,000 per annum.
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire are moving towards establishing a Strategic Policing Alliance with Cambridgeshire which will enable the three forces and police authorities to work together to establish further collaborative units in due course, including a three-force road policing function.
Peter Conniff, Chair of Bedfordshire Police Authority, said: "The creation of this new joint Unit will enable the two forces to pool their resources in this specialised area of policing bringing operational efficiencies and financial savings."
Further information:
Bedfordshire Police Authority
Hertfordshire Police Authority |
