Tayside Police - Equality and Diversity - Community Advisory Groups

Tayside Police has reviewed the existing Lay Advisory Groups with a view to taking forward the critical and valuable role that they have within our organisation and are in the process of setting up Community Advisory Groups across the force area.

These new groups will have a broader remit to include all aspects of diversity including disability, race, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, youth and older people. As such these groups will require to be populated by a broader membership in order to reflect the needs of everyone in the community.

In future there will be a force-wide group known as the Strategic Community Advisory Group and three divisional groups to cover the local authority areas of Angus, Dundee and Perth & Kinross.

We are now seeking volunteers to become Community Advisers to help improve our service delivery and promote better community relations.

Chief Inspector David Tonks said

"We appreciate the value of community involvement and are seeking to broaden the representation of our independent 'critical friends' to fully reflect the diverse community that we police.

"We want people who are willing to work with us at a local level to help improve the quality of our service by addressing concerns, barriers and issues that may affect them or others in their community. Particularly where age, gender, disability, race, religion or belief or sexual orientation may be a factor.

"This is an exciting opportunity to become involved in a group that will inform and influence Tayside Police local policing plans to ensure that they reflect our diverse community needs.

"So if you have an ability to challenge respectfully and provide constructive advice to improve local policing services then please contact us."

If you are interested, please download the following files :

• APPLICATION FORM (PDF, 177KB)

• MEMBERS' ROLE & PERSON SPECIFICATION (PDF, 165KB)

• GROUP TERMS OF REFERENCE (PDF, 169KB)

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