Our vision, mission and values
Our vision is to ‘Create a Safer Cambridgeshire’.
Cambridgeshire continues to be one of the fastest growing areas with an expected population growth of a further 25 percent by 2031. Despite this, Cambridgeshire remains one of the safest counties in the country due to our focus on safeguarding the most vulnerable, supporting victims of crime and robustly investigating and bringing offenders to justice.
We continue to look at new and better ways to deliver a policing service, which includes making the best use of new technology and working to better understand and manage demand to allow us to respond and adapt to the needs of the public and help keep people safe.
Although every crime is important to us, we have five operational priorities and four organisational priorities:
We will safeguard the vulnerable, with a focus on:
- Domestic abuse (repeat victims and offenders)
- Child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Modern slavery and human trafficking
- Fraud (repeat victims and emerging trends)
- Serious sex offences
We will combat acquisitive crime, with a focus on targeting those responsible for committing:
- Burglary
- Organised acquisitive crime
We will reduce harm to communities, focusing on:
- High harm offenders
- Street-based knife crime
We will tackle serious and organised crime, with a focus on groups involved in:
- Firearms
- Drugs lines
- Exploitation
We will increase public satisfaction by responding appropriately and improving communication with victims and witnesses as a priority, focusing on:
- Improving public confidence
- Maintaining call handling times
- The timeliness of our initial response
- Improving communication with victims and witnesses
- Improving visibility and accessibility of policing services
People
We will focus on:
- Attracting, retaining and rewarding our staff
- Identifying and developing leadership
- Developing and supporting our people
- Ensuring our efforts to improve equality, diversity, ethics and inclusion are central to our values
- Supporting staff wellbeing
Partnerships
The force will improve partnerships with:
- Criminal Justice partners
- Local Resilience Forum partners
- Community Safety Partnerships
- Police alliances
- Academic partners and the College of Policing
Resources
We will focus on:
- Corporate services, including corporate development
- The development of an environmental strategy
- Finance and value for money
- Estates and fleet
- ICT services and digital policing
Transformation
We will focus on:
- Improving investigation standards
- Improving data quality
- Identifying and exploiting opportunities to improve operational and non-operational policing functions
- Recovery from the impacts of the pandemic, by identifying opportunities to work differently
Working together to deliver an inclusive and professional policing service with:
- Fairness
- Integrity
- Diligence
- Impartiality