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Under the statutory responsibility to consult with the public in relation to setting the 2013/14 Police budget and precept (the amount of Council Tax which goes towards paying for policing) and identifying the priorities for their 2013-17 Police and Crime Plan, including the closing of various police stations, a telephone survey was commissioned.
In relation to this consultation:-
1. Could you please confirm whether this is:-
a) the normal way of consulting with the public on any given matter
b) how this company was selected
i) when the decision was taken on the strategy to consult with the public
ii) when the surveys began
iii) when the survey results were returned to the Notts PCC
iv) how the results supplied by SMSR were verified as being genuine
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- were any of the survey results audited by the Notts PCC
- if so, what proportion of them were audited
v) whether you were aware of the negative image of this company
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- due to the fact that it employed cold calling
- also their dire financial state, as in staff were not being paid
c) which other companies tendered for this work
d) the total cost of
i) the telephone survey
ii) any additional canvassing
e) whether other methods of consulting are ever employed
f) if so, what are they and who determines what method will be used, based on what criteria.
2. Could you please confirm:-
a) how the number of 400 was arrived at for the number of members of public to be telephone surveyed was arrived at
i) is it a percentage
ii) if so, what percentage does it represent
iii) if not, what does this number represent
b) how the representative sample of 400 members of the public were chosen
c) the details of those members of the public
i) postcodes, or partial postcodes, districts, wards etc
d) whether these were provided to SMSR by the Notts PCC
i) if so, did this breach data protection rules
e) if not, how they were gleaned by SMSR
f) the details of the 3 focus groups and
i) when the surveys began
ii) when the survey results were returned to the Notts PCC
g) can you say what this sentence actually means
"There will and additional focus groups, including victims of crime and young people, undertaken by staff from the Nottinghamshire Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner"
h) Can you confirm the additional numbers canvassed under the above criteria
i) when these surveys began
ii) when these survey results were complete
i) Could you provide a copy of the survey questions referred to in 1 and 2 above
j) If not, why not
3. Could you confirm:-
a) the number of people who completed the questionnaire on the Nottinghamshire PCC website
b) how people would know that there WAS a questionnaire on the Nottinghamshire PCC website
c) the figures for the traffic on the Notts PCC website in each year since the creation of this office
d) whether the questionnaire on the Notts PCC website had the same questions as the telephone survey or if not, in what way they differed.
e) the additional numbers of people canvassed by staff from Notts office of the PCC
i) how they were
a) chosen
b) contacted
ii) whether they were asked exactly the same survey questions as in 1 and 2 above
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