West Midlands Police works with a number of other forces and organisations to provide services. The agreements are entered into with approval from the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable.
Below are a list of the agreements currently in place:
Surveillance Operations service – January 2023
Sections 22A – 23I of Police Act 1996 (as amended) (the Act) sets out the provisions under which collaboration agreements may be made by police forces and local policing bodies as a means of achieving more efficient and effective delivery of policing services. Such an agreement is known as a Police Force Collaboration Agreement (PFCA).
The Chief Officer can only enter into such an agreement with the approval of the PCC and where it is in the interests of the efficiency or effectiveness of the service.
Section 23A of the Act enables two or more PCCs to make an Agreement about the provision of joint support services. “Support” includes the provision of premises, equipment, staff, and facilities.
The 18 PCC’s have entered into the following police force collaboration from: the Northwest, East Midlands, South Wales and West Midlands constituent police forces and Regional Organised Crime Units. For a regional collaboration agreement for Surveillance Operations service – January 2023.
The Chief Officer can only enter into such an agreement with the approval of the PCC and where it is in the interests of the efficiency or effectiveness of the service.
Section 23A of the Act enables two or more PCCs to make an Agreement about the provision of joint support services. “Support” includes the provision of premises, equipment, staff, and facilities.
The 18 PCC’s have entered into the following police force collaboration from: the Northwest, East Midlands, South Wales and West Midlands constituent police forces and Regional Organised Crime Units. For a regional collaboration agreement for Surveillance Operations service – January 2023.
ANPR Collaboration
For the provision of public order training at the Midland region tactical training centre at RAF Cosford
The Collaboration Partners enter into this Agreement under Sections 22A and 23 of the Police Act 1996 as amended by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 which provide for joint working amongst police forces, policing bodies or other parties where, in the opinion of the chief officers or policing bodies, the collaboration delivers greater efficiency or effectiveness to at least one of the participating forces or policing bodies.
Staffordshire and West Midlands Legal Services
Signed on 1 December 2011, a collaboration for the provision of legal services between West Midlands Police and Staffordshire Police.
National Police Air Service
Then West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Bob Jones decided to join the National Police Air Service (NPAS) in January 2013.
Staffordshire and West Midlands Firearms Licensing
Staffordshire Police and West Midlands Police collaborate to provide a joint firearms and explosives licensing service.
National Counter-Terrorism
National Counter-Terrorism (CT) Collaboration Agreement.
National ACRO Criminal Records Office
A collaboration agreement for the ACRO Criminal Records Office.
