Rank Resilience

24 June 2008

Notwithstanding the lack of resilience in the ranks of Inspector and Chief Inspector, we strive to undertake our roles and responsibilities in an efficient and effective way whilst ensuring a suitable work life balance.

Since 1993 the numbers in our ranks fell sharply until 2000; from 2001 we have seen increases but we are still below the total for 1993, mainly due to the number of Chief Inspectors still being 285 lower than that year.

Constables and Sergeants numbers have risen by 13,898 and 2,317 respectively whilst Superintending rank numbers have fallen by 417.
We lead and supervise an additional 16,215 officers and have tasks delegated from the 417 reduced Superintendent posts. This is on top of increased legislative responsibilities, demands on police resources, the introduction of PCSO’s and internal bureaucratic paperwork.

We need to ensure that the level of resources reflects the increased workload and responsibility for the inspecting ranks and thereby regain the resilience needed to ensure our members have a reasonable work life balance and do not suffer from stress and work fatigue.

We will identify a specialist consultancy or organisation with experience in role resilience in organisations, we will then undertake research into what formula of numbers gives an optimum level of resilience for the roles undertaken by our members.

(The Integrated Competency Framework should identify the main roles.
Research with our members should identify where roles are under or over resourced).

We will produce robust empirical evidence that integrates with the evidence from our previous and current surveys and develop a strategy to introduce this evidence into the negotiating arena in order to achieve our objective.

We will then have a robust formula that provides optimum resilience that can be used in national or local negotiations to determine the numbers of our ranks required for each specific role.

The 2008 ICC Conference was centred on “The Well Work Well” We stand by this philosophy.