First there will be a greater level of local accountability for individual Chief Constables through the election of local Police and Crime Commissioners from November 2012. It is recommended that the newly appointed commissioners will be responsible for ‘the budget, staff, estate and other assets in their force area’ (HC 511:17). Second, there will be a greater focus on partnership working throughout the Criminal Justice System (CJS). Thirdly, overall responsibility for managing the performance of police forces has shifted from the Home Office to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC). Fourthly, the Home Office will neither set nor maintain top-down numerical targets for individual police forces. The Analysis of Police and Community Safety (APACS) framework, under which comparative assessments of policing performance are published, will remain but the Home Office will no longer make graded assessments under this, which has been interpreted by some as de facto targets’ (Home Office, 2008: 83).This, therefore marks a significant shift in responsibility and focus in terms of the future police performance management system and places a greater responsibility on the role of individual police authorities (Police and Crime Commissioners from 2012) to be pro-active in monitoring police performance data at local levels. Such performance data should reflect activities related to achieving local goals set by police authorities and future Police and Crime Commissioners which reflect national policing priorities as articulated through the Home Office (HC 511:24) and improved national benchmarking across police force areas.