DECISION RECORD Decision I D: P C C M L 000608 2021 Decision title Collaboration between Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit (Thames Valley Police), Hampshire Constabulary and Hampshire’s Violence Reduction Unit to advance data capabilities to support and Community Safety Partnerships across the South East region Executive summary The Police and Crime Commissioner (P C C) supported partnership information sharing and evidence requirements through the provision of InterACT. This platform now supports other South East community safety partnerships, including Thames Valley Together (Community Partnership arrangement). Thames Valley’s Violence Reduction Unit have heavily invested in a pioneering analytics project, accessing live data to increase the capabilities of visualisation products, including machine learning. This paper recommends development support through an upskilling programme that will enable Hampshire Constabulary (H C) and the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (O P C C) to accelerate collective digital ambitions. Recommendation That the Police and Crime Commissioner approves funding of £51,532 for the financial year 2021/22 from the Commissioner’s Reserve to be given to Thames Valley Police to support the following: Analytical upskilling is required to access the data architecture across partnerships. A contribution is recommended to enable a joint, pioneering capability to create automated identification of risk and opportunities for prevention, bringing together council and police data. A model, provided by consultancy firm Simpsons to be implemented, connecting data architecture to visualisation products supporting Violence Reduction Units and Community Safety Partnerships. That the authority is delegated to the Head of Strategic Commissioning and Partnerships to agree the terms of the funding agreement. Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OP C C) Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton DECISION RECORD Decision I D: P C C M L 000608 2021 Statement on publication This Decision Record and supporting Decision Request documentation is suitable for publication. Police and Crime Commissioner approval I hereby approve the recommendation above. Comments on the decision taken: Approved collaboration with Thames Valley Police and interaction with the V R Us and C S Ps for the sum of £51,532. Signature: Name: Michael Lane Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire Date: 16-Mar-21 Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OP C C) Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton DECISION REQUEST Decision I D: P C C M L 000608 2021 Decision Window: 2021-03 Document version history: Table 1 - Document version history Version Version Requester of change Summary of changes Number date 1.0 4-Mar-21 Not applicable – First Not applicable – First issue. issue 1.1 10-Mar-21 O P C C Programme Office Minor changes to format. 1.2 15-Mar-21 Deputy Monitoring Responses to comments to Officer provide clarity. 1.3 15-Mar-21 Deputy Monitoring Responses to comments to Officer provide clarity. 2.0 16-Mar-21 O P C C Programme Office Addition of P C C signature following approval. Other minor changes following P C C Briefing. Decision title: Collaboration between Thames Valley Violence Reduction Unit (Thames Valley Police), Hampshire Constabulary and Hampshire’s Violence Reduction Unit to advance data capabilities to support and Community Safety Partnerships across the South East region Requester details: Requester: Anja Kimberley Role title: Head of Performance and Information 1 Summary The Police and Crime Commissioner (P C C) supported partnership information sharing and evidence requirements through the provision of InterACT. This platform now supports other South East community safety partnerships, including Thames Valley Together. Thames Valley’s Violence reduction unit have heavily invested in a pioneering analytics project, accessing live data to increase the capabilities of visualisation products, including machine learning. This paper recommends development support through an upskilling programme that will enable Hampshire Constabulary and the O P C C to collaborate and accelerate collective digital ambitions. v2.0 dated 16-Mar-21 Page 1 DECISION REQUEST Decision I D: P C C M L 000608 2021 The costs proposed satisfy the requirements for skills, software, and access to information, processing and management time to capitalise on partnership relations and effective supply of shared data. In doing so, the successful information sharing platform will further contribute to a rich evidence base in support of collaborative problem solving. It currently enables timely and accurate provision of evidence to meet a range of needs, including thematic national funding opportunities for the Hampshire policing area. Thames Valley Police have so far invested around £400,000 into their analytics programme, confronting technical obstacles, designing and imbedding programmes and processes to leverage opportunities in data access. This work included the employment of a full time data engineer to establish the data architecture. The final step that that this paper recommends a contribution towards enables development of the end-to-end pipeline that will support data visualisation and InterACT. The recommendations presented will secure a step-change in capability, introducing an ability for existing data experts to access new technology providing flexible data access across the Constabulary and in collaboration with Thames Valley Police. 2 Recommendation That the Police and Crime Commissioner approves funding of £51,532 for the financial year 2021/22 from the Commissioner’s Reserve to be given to Thames Valley Police to support the: Analytical upskilling is required to access the data architecture across partnerships. A contribution is recommended to enable a joint, pioneering capability to create automated identification of risk and opportunities for prevention, bringing together council and police data. A model, provided by consultancy firm Simpsons to be implemented, connecting data architecture to visualisation products supporting Violence Reduction Units and Community Safety Partnerships. That the authority is delegated to the Head of Strategic Commissioning and Partnerships to agree the terms of the funding agreement. 3 Strategic context InterACT has developed using some outdated methodologies due to the nature of police and partner databases. Emerging technology presents a challenge and opportunity to access live data and combine information. It is physically possible to apply machine learning to alert users of risk v2.0 dated 16-Mar-21 Page 2 DECISION REQUEST Decision I D: P C C M L 000608 2021 areas, however the upskilling of analysts in conjunction with organisational objectives, enhanced communication between organisations and confidence in governance is essential to begin to exploit new technological capabilities. Thames Valley Police have secured £70,000, in addition to a spend of around £400k over two years to deliver a programme that will allow analysts to obtain the computer science skills necessary to manage more flexible ‘unstructured’ data, providing live insights that traditional analysis is not reasonably able to achieve. Hampshire Constabulary have the opportunity to collaborate and have secured £50,000 from Covid-related funding towards this crucial stage in reaching the next generation of I T capability in policing data. This will support intelligence management at an individual level, and further progress the InterACT objective of combining partnership information to identify opportunity to protect the public led by population level indicators of risk. InterACT is the information mechanism that supports the Hampshire Violence Reduction unit, it is also undergoing replication to support Thames Valley Police Community Safety Partners. This collaboration enables all areas of work to develop under a united governance framework, ensuring that progress across all organisations is a collective effort to unite our data networks. This contribution supports the Hampshire rollout of a two-year project between Thames Valley Police and Microsoft, enabling a cloud based approach to data access. This money, by means of a funding agreement, will specifically contribute to a model to connect the data architecture to tools including data visualisation that enable machine learning, and to upskill staff to maintain and develop the products. The prosed senior stakeholder group includes a representative from Hampshire’s Violence Reduction Unit within the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (O P C C) and have an option to oversee areas of technical development. Thames Valley Police have themselves invested £400k and have developed the information governance, security and assurance for the project, this included the provision of a full time data engineer and development of the data architecture. The benefits for InterACT include: An ability to analyse big data, using machine learning to identify risk and assimilate patterns and trends, supporting the ambition of a public health approach and supporting the V R U. A governance structure that allows all sharable products produced by Thames Valley Police and Hampshire Constabulary to be included in InterACT. v2.0 dated 16-Mar-21 Page 3 DECISION REQUEST Decision I D: P C C M L 000608 2021 An opportunity to measure whole system costs by organisation, by unit. For example the cost in demand created by a crime. In information sharing opportunity to reduce