Planning operations at strategic level

Having established that partnership ought to be the strategic way of tackling supply, they need a structure to work within. They need to be able to link to police tasking arrangements for tackling local hotspots and supply areas.

A local partnership ought to set up a discrete availability group, which should have a clear structure and purpose, and which should help give a strategic context to police tasking arrangements and which should be consulted in an appropriate way about police plans and intentions to tackle specific markets; but not in such a way that hinders operational flexibility or compromises the need for security:

A model for a drug supply (availability) steering group

The role of other agencies

Potential key partners

Skills required by partnerships

Who should I report to

Assessing powers