SITC - Security Innovation & Technology Consortium

Venue: Simmons & Simmons, One Ropemaker St, London

Overview

This Round Table has been developed by Cityforum with the advice of HMIC and the support of ACPO.  It looks at the contribution that intelligent and carefully crafted relationships between the police and industry can make to the solution of the problems facing the police service in the light of the government expenditure cuts that cannot be dealt with simply by salami slicing.

A new strategic partnership with industry is essential to realise the benefits that can be delivered by outsourcing functions to industry or collaborating with industry in other ways to deliver effective and economic policing.  Routine transactional work can be defined and delivered by and with industry with relatively few problems once that definition has been made. Middle and back office activity is riskier and more complex, but there are significant areas where strategic partnerships could work.  This forum is designed to tease these out.

Once the collaborative ground has been mapped out, the problem of the way current legislation is framed remains a formidable obstacle to implementation unless complex procurement processes often lasting as long as two years can be modified.  The structure of the police service puts further problems in the way of achieving strategic relationships with industry and a way will have to be found between the chaos of 43 forces and the utopian grand solutions that have previously failed.

A new strategic partnership between the police and industry is designed to go beyond general talk and look at how a new approach can be instituted to make a real difference.  Sir Denis O’Connor and Sir Hugh Orde lead an excellent panel of police contributors and Mark Rowley guides a panel on particular areas where progress can be made, and quickly.

The day involves serious contributions by companies and a paper on necessary changes in industry thinking by Sir David Omand, one of Britain’s best public servants who now thinks deeply about business strategy.  Politicians, officials, police authority representatives and journalists have crucial roles in relation to the changes that are required and their ideas are given full coverage in this discussion designed to take definite steps towards securing a useful advance from the standpoints of the police, authorities, central government and corporates.

Costs

• Standard Fee: £680 + VAT @ 20% - £816
• Public sector fee: £340 + VAT @20% - £408

Concessionary rates

• Concession A: Companies with a turnover of not more than £30m per annum and not more than 250 employees - £340 + VAT @ 20% £408
• Concession B: Companies with a turnover of not more than £5m per annum and not more than 50 employees - £210 + VAT @ 20% £252
• Concession C: Companies with a turnover of not more than £1m per annum - £120 + VAT @ 20% £144

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