Courses Attended

1. During the aforementioned period has the force sent any of its senior officers on courses and or exercises designed to improve team building and or leadership and or communication and or management skills. Some of these events will have taken place on the force's own premises some will have taken place off site. These exercises will include but not be limited to outdoor activities, bonding weekends, theatre based training workshops and role playing exercises.
2. Can the Force please provide a list of companies and or individuals who provide these services on its behalf ?
3. Can the Force please provide a list of occasions when senior officers have taken part in such activities. In each case can you state the date the event took place and how many staff took part? Can you state the venue and the location where the event took place and can you also provide details of the duration of the event. Can you also provide the overall cost of each event including any accommodation or transport costs if the event took place off site?
4. In each case can you provide a brief description of the event. For example was it role play? Did it involve speech classes? In each case can you state why the Force felt the event was worthwhile. What, for instance was the overall aim of the event.
5. During the aforementioned period has the Force ever used the services of a company called Olivier Mythodrama. If the organisation has used the services of this company can it state on how many occasions? Can the organisation please identify which of Mythodrama's packages, sessions and courses it paid for or used. Many of these but not all of them will be themed around particular Shakespeare plays.

In each case can you identify the play (s)? Can the Force say on what date the sessions took place, what staff took part in them and the cost of the individual sessions.

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Question 1

Yes

Question 2

Strategic Command Course: 2008/2009

September 2008 - February 2009 : Bramshill/Scotland

Attended by x2 Chief Superintendents who are now Assistant Chief Constable's for Cheshire.

Top Management Programme: 2009

Attended by Chief Constable in January and June 2009

Top Management Programme, Leadership Development Group, organised by The Centre for Strategic Leadership, The National School of Government.

A programme of activities designed to bring the civil service and the private sector more closely together.

Each programme is modular, the third is spent outside the UK.

January 2009 : Mumbia

June 2009: London Follow up to January's module

Question 3

As Above

Question 4

Strategic Command Course timetable

Question 5

There is no information held.