Originally Posted by tarmac terror

Regarding the appraisal process - your force will have a policing plan or strategy which sets out what it will do over the next number of years - typically a 5 year period. Everyone in your force, the chief, the ACPO ranks, and benenath will all contribute towards delivery of that strategy. That means your objectives need to be linked to the delivery of that strategy. Things like number of arrests is as meaningless a metric as the number of dougnuts you pack away on a shift.

Your objectives will be governed by the SMART acronym;

Specific - to your role
Measurable - you need key goal indicators, to show progress is being made towards meeting your objective.
Attainable - no point setting objective you cant deliver - this rules out the points you made in your previous post.
Realistic - This one keeps the prevous point honest, not too difficult to achieve and not so easy it takes no effort to achieve it
Time Bound - a specified period within which you will agree to achieve your objective - usually at a maximum the duration of the reporting period, but sometimes less, if you do something monthly, quarterly. If it takes a year to deliver your objective, that is fine, the measureable bit above, will offer a mechanism whereby you can show you are on track towards it at any point in the reporting period. It is also likely the first standing objective on supervisors PDR will be to complete the performance review and reporting process in the allotted timeframe.

I will guarantee that your reporting period will be yearly. A couple of logical reasons for this - budgets are allocated on an annual cycle, as are salary increments, as are probation periods.

Originally Posted by tarmac terror

If you force is wanting to cut its costs - this is not the way to do it. The first thing that will stop is external training, the next will be business travel, the next will be overtime - if they start adding French cars to their fleet, it is a sign they are bankrupt and it's time to find another career!