Home Affairs CommitteeWritten evidence submitted by Deputy Chief Constable Simon Edens, ACPO lead on anti-social behaviour [LSP 33]

Thank you again for the opportunity to give evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 8th January 2013 in the session on Leadership and Standards in the Police Service.

During the session that afternoon you asked me a number of questions about the register of police officers’ business interests which we hold here in Leicestershire. I was unable, at the time, to provide you with any details about the number of officers on the register; I am now pleased to provide you with that detail.

Leicestershire Police’s register currently shows that 353 police officers (17% of the force establishment of police officers) have been authorised to pursue business interests and additional occupations.

Police staff (employees who are not sworn officers) are also covered by our policy and the register shows that 209 members (18% of police staff establishment) have been similarly authorised.

I have reviewed the uncorrected evidence transcript from the session and I would like to clarify the statement I made that “the vast majority of second jobs on that list were people who owned property and were letting that property out... .”

Having now looked at the numbers in more detail and reconsidered this statement it is clear that it is the greatest proportion rather than the vast majority of entries in the register that relate to officers who own property and let it out (142 out of 353 listed). To put this in to context the next nearest category is 22 (Lecturer/trainers).

The figures for police staff show that just over a fifth (44 out of the 209 staff listed) is registered for owning and letting property.

I respectfully request that this matter is clarified in my evidence.

Deputy Chief Constable Simon Edens, ACPO lead on anti-social behaviour

24 January 2013