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Commissioning

The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has the power to commission services and to award grants to organisations or bodies to assist her in delivering the priorities in her Police and Crime Plan.

The Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has the power to commission services and to award grants to organisations or bodies to assist them in delivering the priorities of the Police and Crime Plan.

The PCC does this to:

  • Reduce crime and disorder
  • Support victims and witnesses as well as other people affected by criminal offences or anti-social behaviour
  • Improve community safety

The PCC works with the police, local authorities, the courts, prisons, health, prosecution, youth justice service and probation services among others to prioritise and tackle community safety and criminal justice issues in Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and beyond.

To assist the PCC the Office of Police & Crime Commissioner (OPCC) has a small Criminal Justice, Partnerships and Commissioning Team. The team works, often in partnership with other agencies, to enhance, commission or co-commission projects and services which support the criminal justice system. The term 'Commissioning' is the cycle of assessing need and where identified designing and securing the appropriate service.

Services commissioned/co-commissioned by the PCC include:

  • Victim Care services which are delivered by Victim Support, the PCC’s Strategic Delivery Partner for Victim Services. This includes delivery of restorative justice services, a young victim of crime service and a general ‘all crime’ service for people who have reported what has happened to them to the police and for those who do not report. Victim Support also commissions on behalf of the PCC support services for people with diverse or specialist support needs. You can read more about this partnership here.
  • Specialist community sexual violence and domestic abuse services are commissioned by Victim Support, with the exception of the following services - Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA) service, the child sexual exploitation service, peer support services for victims of sexual violence, specialist therapy contracts for adults and children affected by rape and sexual violence/abuse and with NHS England the Sexual Abuse Referral Centre (SARC).
  • The OPCC also commissions services to prevent offending and for those convicted of both domestic abuse and sexual abuse.

  • The PCC provides funding to Community Safety Partnerships to support the delivery of drug support services, provides services to prevent serious violence and contributes to the budget of each youth offending service across the peninsula.

  • The PCC has commissioned a peninsula wide Anti-social Behaviour Outreach service to tackle the issue of young people who are engaging in anti-social behaviour.

What is a commissioning intentions plan?

Each year the OPCC writes a commissioning intentions plan which sets out the Commissioner’s approach for making decisions about which interventions will be commissioned, how existing services will be updated and what new services will be created. This is to ensure that funding is allocated fairly and proportionately, with due regard to the competing demands on available funding. The plan is presented to the Police and Crime Panel each year as part of the budget setting process.

Commissioning Framework

  • In 2021 the OPCC launched a new commissioning framework which aims to:
  • Commission strategically to support the police and crime plan
  • Support a longer-term commitment to commissioning and make more effective the commissioning approaches adopted
  • Articulate a strategic commissioning model to relevant stakeholders and present a road map for change

What is strategic commissioning?

From 2021 onwards the OPCC will commission strategically to achieve a vision for a more sustainable, stable and consistent service provision. The activities which help to achieve this include:

  • Better planning which is informed by evidence, community intelligence and the needs of people who will use the service
  • Improved design and co-design with all relevant stakeholders
  • Embedded reviews, shared plans for improvement and partnership engagement
  • Clear evidence of value for money and social value

How are services commissioned?

To support the delivery of the Police and Crime Plan,  the OPCC commissioning intension framework 2022-23 consists of five commissioning schemes:

  • Victim and Witness Services
  • The Police and Crime Commissioner’s Impact Scheme
  • The Police and Crime Commissioner’s Community Grant Scheme
  • Pooled Budget for Youth Offending Teams

The PCC's commissioning intentions plans:

Commissioning Intentions Plan 2022 - 23

Community grant scheme 2021 - 2022

Commissioning Intentions Plan 2021 - 2022

Commissioning Intentions Plan 2020 -2021

Commissioning Intentions Plan 2019 - 2020

PCC Commissioning Intentions Plan 2018-2020

PCC Commissioning Intentions Plan 2017 - 2020

Commissioning services for victims of crime during the Covid-19 pandemic

Summary of grants issued October 2021

Summary of grants issued March 2022

Summary of community grants issued 2022-23

Grants issues 2022 - 2023

Grants issued 2021 - 2022

Grants issued 2020 - 2021

Grants issued 2019 - 2020

Grants issued 2018 - 2019