Who we are and what we do

• Force structure
• Structure
• Relationships with other authorities
• Avon and Somerset Information Centre
• Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships
• Local Criminal Justice Board
• Child-Safe
• MAPPA
• Casualty Reduction Partnership
• Police Authority
• Southwest One
• Contact details
• Emergency and non-emergency telephone numbers
• text number for general enquiries
• Postal address for general enquiries
• Contact details for Local Safer Neighbourhood Team
• How to report a crime
• How to make a complaint
• Firearms Licensing
• Freedom of information requests
• Subject Access requests
• Location of police stations (including mobile units) and public opening hours
• Map of the force area (with the ability to identify the geographical area covered by each Safer Neighbourhood Team).
• Officer and police staff establishment at force level
• Addresses and opening hours
• Mobile police stations
• Information will be provided at a later date.
• Profiles of the Chief Officer, Deputy Chief Constable or Deputy commissioner, Assistant Chief Constables or Assistant Commissioners and Divisional or Area Commanders
• Profiles of ACPO officers
• Profiles of District Commanders
• Identity of senior civilian staff:
Force structure
• Arrangement for special constables and civilian volunteers

• Sponsorship arrangements with businesses
• Force policy on sponsorship arrangements
• Sponsorship Details

What we spend and how we spend it:

• Procurement procedures
• Unfortunately we are unable to provide you with any information in respect of procurement procedures. This is due to the fact that the Force has a contract with a private organisation called South West One who undertake these procedures on behalf of the Constabulary.
• Details of contracts currently being tendered. List and value of contracts (do not expect all contracts to be included in this scheme. Normally expect the force to publish details only of contracts that are large enough to have gone through formal tendering or are for capital items).
• Force budget (as agreed by Police Authority or Board)
• www.aspola.org.uk
• Support for the provision of Community Support Officers. (Information about the employment of CSOs including details on how they are funded plus monthly statistics.)
• Annual statement of accounts
• www.aspola.org.uk
• Evaluation of police use of resources
• HMIC

• Expenses paid to or incurred by the Chief Officer, Deputy and Assistant Chief Constables or Commissioners (not expected to be broken down to individual claims but to give an adequate explanation of the overall position for each senior officer.
• Expenses (Chief Constable's)
• All other Chief Officers' expenses.
• Financial regulations

What our priorities are and how we are doing:

• Strategic plans
• Annual Policing Plan
• Area Policing Plans
• Chief Officer's Annual Report
• Avon and Somerset Constabulary no longer produces this. It is now dealt with by the Police Authority.
• Neighbourhood Policing arrangements
• Police Performance Assessments
  • HMIC
• Police Force Statistics
• District statistics
• Crime Statistics
• Home Office annual crime figures and British Crime Survey
• Other statistical information
• Police Authority
• Monitoring record of Stop and Account
• Stop and Search statistical information
• Reports from independent custody visitors
• Current year
• Previous year reports

How we make decisions:

• Agenda and minutes for the senior decision-making committee.
• Feedback from public consultation and surveys

Policies and Procedures:

• Policies and procedures for the conduct of police force business; policies and procedures for the provision of policing services; policies and procedures about the recruitment and employment of staff.
• Current vacancies in the organisation.
• Customer service standards and complaint procedure (standards for providing services to the public including the complaints procedure. Complaints procedures will include those covering requests for information and operation the publication scheme. Charging regimes and policies (details of any statutory charging regimes should be provided. Charging policies should include charges made for information routinely published. They should clearly state what costs are to be recovered, the basis on which they are made and how they are calculated).
• How to make a complaint
• IPCC
• Charging regime and policies

• Records management and personal data policies (information on security policies, record retention, destruction and archive policies and data protection (including data sharing) policies.
• Copy Code of Practice. Further information will be made available in the near future.

Lists and Registers

• Information held in registers required by statute
  
  • currently there are no registers that the police service is required to publish by statute
• Asset registers and information asset registers
• Information will be provided at a later date.
• Registers of interests
• Business Interests

• Register of gifts and hospitality provided to senior personnel
• We are unable to provide this information as it is currently inaccessible.
• FOI disclosure log

The Services we offer:

• Advice and guidance for the general public.
• Relentless
• Glastonbury
• Firearms and explosive licensing, firearms dealers licensing, abnormal load escort, keyholder services, keyholder services. Police College or learning centre.
• Processes for obtaining licenses or services provided to the public
• Ceremonial duties
• Glastonbury Festival (Pilton)
• Media Releases
• Museum
• No museum exists
• Details of the services for which the police force is entitled to recover a fee together with those fees.
• We are unable to provide this information as it is currently inaccessible.