As on the public section of our website, it’s encouraging to know that what we do week in week out, saves the Police, NHS and courts money, sometimes tens of thousands of pounds! Having been told by one of our funding assistants that it might help our applications if we could quantify how much we save the police and other organisations, we asked Inspector Russ Sharpe. This was his response:

It would be difficult to quantify how much you save us.  I know that if you were able to prevent a serious Assault you would save us thousands of pounds, the health service tens of thousands and the CJS tens of thousands of pounds.

If you managed to prevent a sexual assault you would also save us thousands of pounds.

If you were look at a simple offence like being drunk.  It would probably take an officer a minimum of two hours to complete the booking in procedure and the paperwork.  The individual would then remain in custody overnight which would also occur addition expense as he would have be closely observed because of his intoxicated state.  So a simple drunk would probable cost us several hundred pounds. If he was charged to court this would increase into the thousands.

Russ

Inspector Russell Sharpe

Local Policing & Partnerships

South and Central Sectors

Charles Cross Police Station

Hampton Street

Plymouth

PL4 8HG