Legal advice and expertise for Blue light services

Our 20 years' experience of advising blue light services places us in an ideal position to combat the increasing pressures faced by the sector.

As members of the National Legal Services Framework, we work with blue light organisations across the UK. We advise on all blue light requirements, from rationalisation and income generation through to IT transformation and procurement.

Our experts can help with commercial agreements, estate management, collaboration and shared services agreements.

Our experience gives us an excellent understanding of how blue light services function, allowing us to provide effective support in maintaining performance whilst delivering much needed efficiencies.

We have worked on projects involving direct interaction with Police and Crime Commissioners, Chief Constables and other senior command.

We understand the relationships and sensitivities you deal with daily and this helps us to achieve your objectives with the minimum of fuss.

Clients include

Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime, Metropolitan Police Service
7 Force Procurement Function
Greater Manchester Police
Police Scotland

Experience

Advising on the establishment of a new joint committee to facilitate collaborative procurement activities between our client and other bodies.
Advising a police force on the conditional acquisition for development of new central custody facility and complex negotiations with a local authority.
Advising on a number of strategically important Freedom of Information Act requests, including advising on the application of exemptions and drafting responses explaining the reasons for withholding information
Advising on complex IT projects for police applications and infrastructure including ICCS and Command and Control
Advising on section 22A agreements major IT projects undertaken by a collection of police forces acting collaboratively
Advising on the procurement of training and education services to meet the Policing education qualifications framework
Advising on police governance and law as well as Data Protection issues which are specific to the use of data in law enforcement