Gail Buckland, the crime manager of Milton Keynes Partners Aganist Crime was elected as chair of a Thames Valley business crime partnership group.
The area’s seven partnerships within the Thames Valley Police area met on Monday, March 21 and agreed to form a Thames Valley group to enable them to work together more closely, to share information about crime and criminals, to share good practice and to establish closer links with the police.
Gail said: ‘This is our first step in working more closely together. We are aware that police resources are going to be more stretched and that we need to be able to work more effectively as individual partnerships and as a group to continue to deliver services to our members.’
The group is working to develop information-sharing protocols and has developed an intranet to be used by crime managers and police which will enable them to share information about crime and criminals within Thames Valley.
Mike Schuck, operations director of ABCP said: ‘This is another important step in developing operational partnership groups within the ABCP structure, which will become increasingly important not only for the work they do locally but also as a means by which ABCP and its members can communicate and develop ideas to help with future plans and direction of the organisation.’
