New twist in plans to merge Norfolk and Suffolks police control centres

The Norfolk police control room at Wymondham, which is at the centre of reorganisation proposals for Norfolk and Suffolk.

Colin Adwent Thursday, April 10, 2014 1:19 PM

The controversy over proposals to merge Norfolk and Suffolks police control centres has taken a new twist after a vision was unveiled for all Suffolks emergency services to have a central control room based in the county.

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Norfolk and Suffolk police paid a consultancy nearly 350,000 for advice on merging its control rooms and other administrative posts, it has emerged.

The constabularies recruited consultancy firm Capita to help compile a report for the proposed administrative changes at a cost of 348,884.90.

A total of 123,569 was spent on the control room work.

In addition to the merger proposal, the work also included looking at relocating other civilian staff posts from Norfolk into combined departments based in Suffolk.

Suffolks share of the whole bill was 151,764.93 with Norfolks portion coming to just over 197,000.

Simon Stevens, a spokesman for Suffolk Constabulary, said: Since 2010, Norfolk and Suffolk have been working closely together to cut costs whilst transforming services.

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