Commanf an Control

Chief Superintendent - Chief superintendent's command the largest territorial subdivisions, often known generally as Basic command units which is the largest territorial units that the police force are split into.

Assistant Chief Constable - Each force has between one and five Assistant Chief Constables. They usually hold portfolios for crime, operations or territorial policing. In larger forces, they may be given responsibilities for policing major territories within the force area.

Deputy Chief Constable - The role of the DCC varies from force to force. In some smaller forces, they take responsibility for territorial policing, but in most forces the role covers corporate functions including professional standards.

Chief Constable - The population of areas for which chief constables are responsible can vary from a few hundred thousand to two or three million. A chief constable has no superior officer, but is responsible to the local police authority. They have to make sure the whole police force is working well together and set a high standard for the rest of the force to follow.

Task 2

Non uniformed personnel also play a vital part in the police force. Government organisations such as home office are also involved in the work of the police force.

The Home Office has very similar objectives to the ones of the police, the following objectives:

* To cut down on crime

* To ensure people feel safer in their homes and daily lives, particularly through more visible, responsive and accountable policing

* To protect the UK from terrorist attacks

* To re-balance the criminal justice system in favour of the law-abiding majority and victims

* To manage offenders in order to protect the public and reduce re-offending

* To secure the borders of the United Kingdom, prevent abuse of immigration laws and manage migration to the benefit of the UK.

So therefore they can work closely with the police to try and make sure all of the above are achieved.

They provide the funding needed by the police to carry out certain procedures and changes they may need to make, they help organise and develop the police force to try and improve it all the time.

Part of the funding the home office provides goes towards trying to meet the UK's 5-year science and technology strategy, the Home Office sponsors research in police sciences which include;

* Raman Spectroscopy - to provide more sensitive drugs and explosives detectors (e.g. roadside drug detection)

* Biometrics - including face and voice recognition

* DNA - identifying offender characteristics from DNA

* Terahertz imaging methods and technologies - e.g. image analysis and new cameras, to detect crime, enhance images and support anti-terrorism

* Chemistry - new techniques to recover latent fingerprints

* Cell type analysis - to determine the origin of cells (e.g. hair, skin)

* Improved Profiling - of illicit drugs to help identify their source

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The home office always has very good contact with the police and will try and help co-ordinate decisions made for the regional area. They will also help the Chief Police Officer to manage the local forces and keep the effiency rate high and level of production to the highest standard possible.

The police were also recruiting a lot more civilians, so that the police officers that were working in the offices and doing most of the paperwork could go out and use their skills more practically and offer the community a better and safer environment.

Jacqui Smith is the home secretary and is in charge of the home office. She is in charge of various agencies such as borders agency, identity and passport agency and the criminal records bureau.

The borders agency is in charge of all the borders and making sure no one that shouldn't be in our country manages to get in, this could be anything from asylum seekers to terrorists.

The identity and passport agency are in charge of giving people their passports, and renewing them and making sure peoples identity are correct.

The criminal records bureau is in charge of keeping all the criminal records safe and making sure they have not been tampered with, they are also responsible for keeping them up to date when they have to.

The Forensic Science Service (FSS) is a government-owned company in the United Kingdom which provides forensic science services to the police forces and government agencies of England and Wales, as well as other countries.

The FSS provides scene-of-crime and forensic investigation staff to all the police services in England and Wales, they may also provide their services to the following government agencies; Crown Prosecution Service, HM Revenue and Customs, HM Coroners' Service, Ministry of Defence Police, British Transport Police and worldwide forensic services.