Refreshed Perspective – 6 Ways to Be a Great PCC
We’re now one year on from the 4th round of elections for Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) across England and Wales. It got us thinking about the blog we published around that time and which is just as relevant today. At Leapwise, we work with PCCs and forces across the country to try and make policing […]
Refreshed Perspective – 4 Strategic Choices for High-Performance Policing
For policing and many other public services, the reality is that demand will almost always outstrip supply. If you’re a chief constable, the force’s limited resources mean that you won’t be able to catch every shoplifter and deal with every report of anti-social behaviour, all while running critical murder and serious violence investigations. In health […]
3 Visions for the Future of Police Collaboration – Tom’s View
With another tight spending round for forces across England and Wales and a much more reform-minded Home Office, policing is undoubtedly facing a fresh wave of major change. We’ve written before about what this might mean for how policing is structured and organised. It includes: Individually, each of these single elements would be a major […]
Supporting the London Borough of Hounslow’s Serious Violence Strategy – A Leapwise Case Study
In 2022, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act introduced the Serious Violence Duty. This legislation required local authorities and other public services to work together to prevent and reduce serious violence in their communities. In 2023, like many other local authorities, the London Borough of Hounslow, needed to develop and implement a serious violence […]
Refreshed Perspective – Seven Pillars of Public Sector Turnaround
For all that negative stories about policing seem to get the most airtime, some pieces of good news are so big that they’re guaranteed to cut through. Case in point: the recent announcement that HMIC has decided to remove the Metropolitan Police Service from ‘special measures’ after more than two years. As the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper rightly said, it marked “an important and welcome step […]
New Year’s Resolution for Public Sector Leaders – Be Radical to Reform Public Services
Welcome back to your first Leapwise blog of 2025! We hope you had a good break – especially readers who were working hard in public services where Christmas often means higher demand, rather than a quieter few weeks. As we reflect on 2024, it’s worth recognising how much change we saw across the public sector. […]
Transforming Team Leadership at Avon and Somerset Police – A Leapwise Case Study
In 2022, Avon and Somerset Police, like many police forces, were facing leadership challenges, with the force managing a rapidly expanding cohort of new recruits as a result of the national recruitment drive for the Police Uplift Programme. The Challenge The chief officer group were quick to recognise that harnessing the talent of these new […]
Fit For The Future: The case for a reformed national policing landscape – Tom’s view
Earlier this week, Leapwise and the Police Foundation co-published a brand-new policy paper: ‘Fit for the Future: the case for a reformed national policing landscape.’ If you didn’t catch it, you can find the full version here. We also published a launch op-ed in Policing Insight – co-written by Leapwise MD Tom Gash and Police Foundation Director Dr Rick Muir – for a quicker summary of […]
Public Sector Productivity: 4 Tips for Effective Process Redesign
Between the challenging fiscal context and the significant demands across the state (see prison spaces, NHS waiting lists or court backlogs), public services are under exceptional strain. And we saw thischallenge played out in the lead up to the Autumn Budget, with various Cabinet ministers successfully making the case for additional resources for their departments, funded by tax increases. However, funding for public services remains extremely tight. Public services will (like business) need to pay the increased National Insurance contribution – typically at a cost of […]
Police Scotland: Developing Vision 2030 – A Leapwise Case Study
Police Scotland is a large and ambitious service, with outstanding detection rates for high harm crimes and a proven track record of providing good service to victims and witnesses. The Challenge The service has made a number of changes and improvements over the past few years, but leaders had started to feel that lack of […]