This is Lincolnshire -- A new report will call for more bobbies on the beat in local police areas including Lincolnshire. The Independent Police Commission will publish its findings tomorrow and demand that neighbourhood policing is saved amid the claim that bobbies on the beat are disappearing. Recommendations will include setting a national set of minimum standards of policing every community should expect to receive and providing officers on patrol mobile access to information from the Police National Computer. Case files would be submitted to prosecutors and courts electronically and internet crime experts would be directly recruited into forces. And the commission recommends limits are placed on the use of companies like G4S. Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Hardwick told the Echo in a recent interview that Lincolnshire Police is currently trialling mobile finger print devices which can give results in two minutes. He said: "It's an electronic system. You put your finger on it, it takes a finger print that's electronically traced with the national database. "Body cameras are also being trialled and we are considering updating a lot of our computer facilities in the future. "We could reduce paperwork and process prisoners in minutes. It will mean officers spending longer on the frontline doing the job they trained to do. "The G4S contract [to run back office operations] I inherited from the police authority has saved £5 million in the first year of operation."
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This is Lincolnshire -- A new report will call for more bobbies on the beat in local police areas including Lincolnshire. The Independent Police Commission will publish its findings tomorrow and demand that neighbourhood policing is saved amid the claim that bobbies on the beat are disappearing. Recommendations will include setting a national set of minimum standards of policing every community should expect to receive and providing officers on patrol mobile access to information from the Police National Computer. Case files would be submitted to prosecutors and courts electronically and internet crime experts would be directly recruited into forces. And the commission recommends limits are placed on the use of companies like G4S. Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner Alan Hardwick told the Echo in a recent interview that Lincolnshire Police is currently trialling mobile finger print devices which can give results in two minutes. He said: "It's an electronic system. You put your finger on it, it takes a finger print that's electronically traced with the national database. "Body cameras are also being trialled and we are considering updating a lot of our computer facilities in the future. "We could reduce paperwork and process prisoners in minutes. It will mean officers spending longer on the frontline doing the job they trained to do. "The G4S contract [to run back office operations] I inherited from the police authority has saved £5 million in the first year of operation."
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