The need to increase productivity within the constraints of a decreasing budget will require full scale business re-engineering across the entire police service. The increased use of benchmarking, management information and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) value for money profiles will provide some opportunities for informed decision making. However ‘to be able to increase delivery and balance budgets, police authorities and forces will need to ensure that business processes are as efficient and effective as possible and they must adopt business process improvement as part of their on-going efforts to increase value for money’ (Home Office, 2010b:2)