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Speaker 1: Some more jobs to go at the police thirty seven

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Speaker 1: executive roles this time. Although when you add it all up,

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Speaker 1: it's a net seventeen loss comes out of comments apparently

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Speaker 1: last year that a restructure was needed. The Police Commissioner,

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Speaker 1: Richard Chambers is with this. Richard, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Mike.

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Speaker 1: Now for those losing their job, very said news obviously,

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Speaker 1: and that applies every time it happens. But a net

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Speaker 1: seventeen's hardly the end of the world and something the

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Speaker 1: size of the police force, is it.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're a big organization and we've got a massive

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Speaker 2: job to do. But I said on my first day

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Speaker 2: in this role at the end of November, that there

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Speaker 2: would be a restructure restructure at some point. I outlined

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Speaker 2: my priority is very focused on the front line, and

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Speaker 2: this proposal was about me saying to the organization and

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Speaker 2: externally what I think we need going forward and invite

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Speaker 2: some feedback on it.

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Speaker 1: So with a net seventeen loss is this is surely

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Speaker 1: is not about money. It's about organization, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely it's not. But this opportunity does allow us

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Speaker 2: to reinvest in the front line. I've been very clear

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Speaker 2: that that's a particular priority for me, supporting our front line.

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Speaker 2: They are the men a woman who deliver police services

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Speaker 2: across the country, and I believe by trimming down the

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Speaker 2: executive and putting the resources into the right places that

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Speaker 2: we get better outcome.

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Speaker 1: So what does the next seventeen lost financially mean for

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Speaker 1: the front line in terms of numbers?

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Speaker 2: Then I haven't quantified that, but as part of my priorities,

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Speaker 2: I've said that supporting thistline in terms of their safety

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Speaker 2: and their well being, there's two areas that I'm particularly

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Speaker 2: interested in. They've got a tough job to do, and

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Speaker 2: so by trimming down the executives and reinvesting those savings

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Speaker 2: into districts and supporting district commanders as we possibly can be,

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Speaker 2: that's what they deserve and that's what they'll.

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Speaker 1: Be getting under my leaders What did the executive do?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we think of police, we think of front line.

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Speaker 1: What do the executive actually do? Is it like any

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Speaker 1: other business you need an executive to do something?

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, we do. Of course we need senior layers

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Speaker 2: of leadership. I believe that it's bigger than it needs

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Speaker 2: to be, So by trimming it down and putting that

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Speaker 2: if into other parts of the organization, we still can

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Speaker 2: deliver on our function as senior executives. We need to

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Speaker 2: understand what plee thing looks like across the country. The

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Speaker 2: chlendis as they face and our job is to enable

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Speaker 2: the front line. So this is about, you know, putting

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Speaker 2: emphasis on my priorities, about a visible leadership, and it's

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Speaker 2: about executive being connected. So we'll trim it down, look

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Speaker 2: out there and we'll make.

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Speaker 1: Good luck with it. Richard Chambers, please appreciate your time.

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