In order to achieve this target the UK Government acknowledges that there will be an impact on the police workforce through a reduction in headcount and a need to ‘reshape’ the performance management system for the police service. This need for improvements in the performance management system of the UK police service has been particularly highlighted in the UK Government’s CSR as 88 per cent of this total spend, goes on the workforce which, now stands at 142,363 police officers, 78,120 police staff and 16,376 police community support officers (Home Office, 2010).