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This policy aims to support a common framework that helps all responsible partner agencies to work together for the protection of children and young people. The main aim of the policy is to safeguard and protect the lives of children and young people by reducing the risk of exploitation, identifying risk at the earliest opportunity and by disrupting offender activity.

Through consistent application, the aim of the policy is to ensure staff who are employed on flexi time, and managers who are responsible for its implementation, work together to ensure the needs of the business are met, with due regard given to the needs of individual staff.

The objective of this policy is to ensure all police officers, police staff, volunteers and cadets are supported upon the report of them being a victim/survivor of domestic abuse. This policy affords staff the opportunity to understand what will happen if they report domestic abuse and what support they can expect from Merseyside Police.

This policy seeks to reinforce the general principles covering the use of pocket notebooks and day books by staff during the course of their duty. This will include issuing of notebooks, security, retention and supervision of their use by line managers and loss reporting procedure.

The policy’s main aim is to provide a framework for managing overtime effectively. It is designed to help ensure a consistent systematic approach to authorising, claiming and processing overtime.

The main aim of this policy is to provide a mechanism that complies with legislative requirements and enables staff at all levels to raise issues of concern regarding wrongdoing and inappropriate behaviour within the workplace. The policy is considered integral to creating a climate in which staff at all levels feel a genuine obligation to maintain the integrity of the Police service by reporting wrongdoing.

This policy aims to provide a comprehensive approach to the creation, management, storage and disposal of documents, records and information in all formats across all business areas and functions.

This policy aims to minimise the risk of injury to Police Officers, Special Constables, Police Community Support Officers and Police Staff from edged weapons or firearms, through the provision and wearing of personal issue body armour, whilst engaged in their operational or contractual duties. The Force will issue body armour, which provides the level of protection to the standard approved for the specific role. The standard will be determined by a role-based risk assessment.

The aim of this policy is to set out the way in which PAVA Irritant Spray will be used in Merseyside Police as a response option for officers’ personal safety and conflict resolution.

The main aim of this policy is to make best use of the available legislation to ensure the safety of all road users within the Merseyside area.