Financial Deficit

1. Does Cheshire Police Authority currently have a financial deficit in its budget?
2. If yes, what is the current deficit figure?
3. And, if yes, what are the reasons for the deficit?
4. What financial reserves does Cheshire Police Authority currently have at its disposal?
5. How much does Cheshire Police Authority plan to spend on management consultants in the 2010/1011 financial year?
6. Will the Cheshire Police Chief Officer team accept any bonus payments during the 2010/2011 financial year?
7. If yes, please confirm the amounts (anonymised)
8. How many non-operational police officers currently work for Cheshire Police.
9. What roles do these non-operational officers perform?
10. How many Agency staff currently work at Cheshire Police?
11. How many volunteers does Cheshire police authority deploy and what is their total cost to the force?
12. How many police staff posts are funded from partnership money?
13. Please provide a list of all such partnership funded police staff posts.

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

Question 1

No

Question 2

N/A

Question 3

N/A

Question 4

This information is exempt in accordance with:

Section 22 (1) (a) Information intended for future publication.

Information is exempt information if the information is held by the authority with a view to its publication by the authority, or any other person, at some future date (whether determined or not).

If you would care to look at the below web page link you will see the information that has thus far been published.

What we Spend and How we spend it

Public interest considerations

Considerations in favour of immediate disclosure.

The general arguments in favour of promoting transparency and accountability are apparent and in particular transparency over financial affairs.

Considerations in favour of following original schedule
The authority having already determined the public interest in disclosure has set out a reasonable publication schedule to ensure fairness.

To divert resources in favour of immediate disclosure would prejudice other items of public interest.

Immediate disclosure in favour of the applicant would be unfair to others.

In all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information

Question 5 

£212.275 including procurement advisors in the FY 2010/11

Question 6

No

Question 7

N/A

Question 8

296

Question 9

These roles are not classed as non-operational but are classifed as operational support or organisational support. Included are Partnership Inspectors, Customer Service Desk Sergeants, Professional Standards, Financial Investigation Detectives, Training, Case Management, Public Protection Referral Unit, Commanders, Critical Incident Managment, Computer Investigation, Firearms Training & Air Operations.

Question 10

As of end of June we had 86 agency staff working for us.

Question 11

351 Specials total cost last year was £67,250

Question 12

295.35

Question 13

Checro	1
Vetting & Disclosures	30.7
DAAT	1.54
Road Safety Camera Scheme	24.21
Forensics	0.9
PCSOs	237