Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many police (a) staff and (b) officers will be employed to establish the Vulnerability Coordination Centre.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council has established the vulnerability knowledge and practice programme (formerly vulnerability coordination centre) to improve police practice in recognition of the critical role of police in protecting vulnerable people. Four staff and two officers are employed on the programme.

Ministers have awarded £2.5million from the Police Transformation Fund over two years (2018/19 – 2019/20) to the College of Policing to improve the evaluation of promising practice in policing. This will include assess-ment of vulnerability and serious violence interventions used by forces, and in part involve work with the vulnerability knowledge and practice pro-gramme to evaluate pilots relating to the protection of vulnerable people.