Ambassadors - Yorkshire and the Humber
We've had another very good year and a special thank you from me and everyone at National Training Awards. The good news is that numbers are up on last year with 6% nationally and 4% in Yorkshire and the Humber which is a great result despite the unpredictable times, proving that there are organisations out there that continue to invest in training.
The NTA team have worked incredibly hard and it is a great credit to everyone involved that we have done so well. Now the hard work begins as the Assessors all start to score the entries and then the Judges who work really hard in June and July to decide on who stands out from the rest.
A special thank you to all the regional sponsors, Ambassadors and stakeholders who featured NTA in many of their newsletters, invited us to events and generally helped with our promotion throughout the region before and during our call for entry campaign. I am sure that all of these hard efforts will have had a very positive effect in keeping our name and the Awards in the forefront of people's minds.
We can now look forward to getting some good winners at the Leeds ceremony at the end of September.
From July I will be running the Ambassador programme on a national scale and also be coordinator for the London and South East regions. I will introduce you to your new Ambassador coordinator once announced in the next edition in July.
NTA Regional Award Winner, Large
Employer; Humberside Police
Busy Police Force Creates "Detention
Officers"
Humberside Police has saved thousands of man hours with a new training scheme. The Detention Officer programme combines three existing positions in the force - Police Constable Warder, Drug Testing Officer and Custody Care Assistant - into the newly created single Civilian role of Detention Officer.
The Humberside force covers the north and north-east parts of Lincolnshire, the East Riding area of Yorkshire and Kingston Upon Hull. With a total of 4,234 employees, about half of whom are police officers, the force strategy is to improve Public Satisfaction & Confidence by increasing its efficiency and releasing more officers to deliver operational policing.
The aim of the Detention Officer scheme was to free up police officers, reduce waiting times in "custody suites" and, crucially, to cut down on errors in forensic data collection processes such as fingerprinting and DNA collection, giving the police a better database for criminal investigation.
