Agenda item

Report of the Commissioner (copy attached).

The Sub-Committee considered a report of the Commissioner setting out the Force’s Human Resources monitoring data for the year 2011/13.

          The Director of Corporate Services drew Members’ attention to an error on p. 13, whereby the figures for officer establishment and strength were wrongly inputted. The correct data was 703 for establishment (budgeted numbers) and 797 strength (actual numbers).

Members commented that in the future it would be helpful if the report could define the meaning of the terms ‘establishment’ and ‘strength’, or simply refer to budgeted and actual numbers. It was felt that the error was probably down to the confused use of the terms.

Worryingly, the error appeared to indicate that the Force was considerably behind the target of achieving a balance between the staff budgets and officer numbers. The Commissioner reassured Members that, had they had a fuller picture in terms of the projected rate of leavers over the CSR period, it would have shown that they were expected to be on track to achieve the anticipated numbers which would allow the Force to meet the financial challenge placed by the grant reductions. He undertook to bring back a report to Members with better and more detailed information on workforce planning to future meetings of the Sub-Committee.

RESOLVED – That the report be received and its contents noted.