Force Publications

I am writing to obtain information about any magazines or newsletters published by the Police Force.

To outline my query as clearly as possible, I am requesting:

1. The names of any magazines or newsletters published by the Police Force in the 2009-10 financial year and the 2010-11 financial year to date. This includes anything published in conjunction with the local authority, or the Police Authority.

2. The frequency with which each publication was/is produced.

3. The total cost of producing and circulating each individual publication in each of the financial years mentioned above.

4. The number of copies of each publication that were/are produced, and the number of undistributed copies that are returned and/or disposed of for each issue.

5. The amount recouped for individual publications through advertising in each of the financial years mentioned above. Please break this down by organisation, but if this not possible please continue to provide a simple list of the organisations.

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

Question 1:

Cheshire Police currently produce the following publications:

• Your Policing
• Neighbourhood Policing Team Newsletters

Question 2:

'Your Policing' is produced on an annual basis in conjunction with Cheshire Police Authority. This is a statutory publication from the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 Section 157. This legislation states that the publication must be sent to every household within the county.

The Neighbourhood Policing Team Newsletters are produced on a quarterly basis, in a limited print run per team. We have 52 Neighbourhood teams.

Question 3:

Here is a breakdown of the printing and distribution costs for ‘Your Policing’:

2009/10
Printing Costs - £18,257.00
Postage Costs - £30,768.00
Total – £49,025.00 – 11.4 pence per copy

2010/11
Printing Costs - £17,125.00
Postage Costs - £31,016.12
Total – £48,141.12 – 11 pence per copy

Distribution is via Royal Mail. The costs are split 50-50 between the Constabulary and the Cheshire Police Authority.

Here is a breakdown of the printing costs for the neighbourhood newsletters:
2009/10
Printing costs - £7,660.00

2010/11
Printing costs - £7,660.00

Question 4:

Your Policing

2009/10

In 2009/10 431,001 copies of ‘Your Policing’ were produced, of these 430,993 were posted direct to households across the county. The remaining 8 were distributed at police stations throughout the county - to our knowledge none were returned.

2010/11

In 2010/11 436,916 copies of ‘Your Policing’ were produced, of these 434,516 were posted direct to households across the county. The remaining 2400 were used in display bins at Police HQ for visitors to the Force Open Day. None were returned from the direct distribution

Neighbourhood Policing Team Newsletters

2009/10 & 2010/11

In total we produce 30,000 ‘Community’ newsletters per annum. Broken down this equates to an average of 150 copies of 50 newsletters printed 4 times per year (some print runs are slightly larger than 150 for the bigger neighbourhoods, some are smaller). There are no circulation costs as the newsletters are distributed by local officers and PCSOs at beat meetings and community engagement events. These newsletters are A5, 4-sided flyers giving details of local policing priorities and photos/contacts for local officers. They are produced to follow Home Office and National Police Improvement Agency best practise guidance on community engagement.

We do not have a record of whether any copies remain undistributed.

Question 5:

There is no information held. We do not have any advertising within our publications.