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Financial Information

Annual Statement of Accounts 2008/2009
Force Budget 2008/2009
External Annual Audit Letter
Financial Regulations
Best Value Reports by Surrey Police Authority

PCSO Funding Arrangements

Surrey Police has an establishment of 222 PCSOs who are deployed across the Force either in Safer Neighbourhood Teams or in teams directly supporting neighbourhoods. The current cost of employing PCSOs in Surrey is approximately £5.53 million per annum (based on an average cost of £24,900 per PCSO per annum.).

Funding for PCSOs is partly supplied by the Home Office via a specially identified PCSO grant and from local budgets including Surrey Police and local Community Safety Partnership budgets. The approximate split in this funding is currently:

• Home Office - 73.7%
• Surrey Police - 25%
• Local CSP - 1.3%

The terms of the Home Office grant states that all funded PCSOs are to be fully deployed to Neighbourhood Policing in the core PCSO role as defined by the NPIA in the review of PCSO Roles and Responsibilities published in July 2008. This definition is:

PCSO's should be:-

a) Integrated into a Neighbourhood Policing team (normally geographic but could be for a defined community of interest for example, Safer Transport teams)

Or

b) Deployed to directly support Neighbourhood Policing team(s) in their neighbourhoods (in both the above the PCSO should spend the majority of their time within neighbourhoods and not be office/police station based and/or undertaking administrative roles)

And

With all the below principles applying:

• Undertake public facing duties in uniform
• Visible in the communities on foot or cycle patrol (vehicle if rural community)
• Deal with anti-social behaviour (ASB), low level crime and incidents, local problems/priorities and quality of life issues
• Support and improve service to victims and vulnerable people
• Conduct engagement and problem solving activity

Home Office funding is paid to Surrey Police every 3 months in arrears and is subject to regular audit in relation to the full deployment of PCSOs as defined.

Further information on PCSOs can be found on the Home Office website