Staffing

• The 2025 – 2026 PCC Staffing Budget build listed 38.5 staff including the PCC.
• The 2024 – 2025 PCC Staffing Budget build listed 37.4 staff including the PCC.

• The 2023 – 2024 PCC Staffing Budget build listed 38.3 staff including the PCC.

• The 2022 – 2023 PCC staffing budget build listed 36.03 staff including the PCC.

• The 2021 – 2022 PCC staffing budget build listed 25.61 staff including the PCC.

• The 2020 – 2021 PCC staffing budget build listed 22.61 staff including the PCC.

The PCC also makes use of the enabling business areas within Wiltshire Police. By making use of the areas instead of employing his own staff for these specialisms it becomes more efficient and therefore reduces the burden on the local tax payer for funding.

Areas the PCC has access to include:

• Learning and Development
• Professional Standards & HR
• Occupational Health
• Organisational Development
• Information Management & Assurance
• Finance
• Fleet
• Facilities
• IST

Responsibilities: Naji fulfils the role of Chief Executive (CEO), Monitoring Officer and Head of Paid Service, which is required by law. Naji leads the OPCC Executive Leadership Team and is ultimately responsible for all OPCC functions. Naji supports and advices the Police and Crime Commissioner to ensure all legal duties are met, including their responsibility for the totality of all policing in their area, securing an effective and efficient policing service, producing and delivering a Police and Crime Plan. The CEO also has a range of statutory duties and responsibilities, including

1. Strategy, Performance and oversight
2. Commissioning and service delivery
3. Delivering system and organisational change and improvement
4. Scrutiny, governance and performance; and
5. Ensuring an efficient and effective Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner.

Naji is a criminologist and has worked at executive positions in the NHS, Public Health, local government, policing and in private industry, specialising in strategy and strategic change.

Salary: £123,120.00 Full-time position

Responsibilities: As Chief Finance Officer for the Police and Crime Commissioner, he or she is responsible for providing the PCC with day-to-day financial advice and long term financial planning to deliver the Police and Crime plan.  He or she is the officer responsible under statute for the proper administration of the PCC's financial affairs and ensures the OPCC meets its obligations under its own financial regulations.

OPCC CFO - Graham Papworth = 1 x FTE

Responsibilities: Rob fulfils the role of Director of Operations.  Rob leads and manages the OPCC functions directly across office operations including administration, strategy and policy, service delivery (commissioning), performance, risk management and governance.

In addition, Rob acts as the Deputy to the Chief Executive and supports the CEO for the overall running of all OPCC functions.

Rob is proficient in stakeholder management at strategic/executive level with a proven ability to build collaborative relationships across a wide range of groups, from politicians to partner organisations. Rob is a qualified project and programme manager skilled in leading business change, strategy development, commissioning services and operational delivery.

Salary: £90,273.00 Full time position

The Head of Legal services has oversight of the department as a whole. They provide legal supervision and line management to the solicitors, also dealing with complaints, high priority cases, or those where the solicitors are unable to resolve them.

Where a financial/legal risk decision is required, this will also fall to the Head of Legal Services. They report to the Chief Constable or deputy and PCC or CEO to ensure they are kept abreast of cases, workload and developments that could impact the force they serve.

Salary £90,273 Full time position W15

The OPCC Head of Communications and Engagement provides high-level reputation and risk management advice for all OPCC work strands and responsibilities, as well as leading a small team of communications professionals who deliver the office’s strategic communications and engagement.

The post holder works closely with the Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC) and OPCC Executive Leadership Team, and executive partners across office stakeholders, to provide strategic advice, set the strategic communications and engagement priorities for the OPCC and lead on the delivery, monitoring and evaluation of these by developing appropriate performance, risk, change, and assurance strategies and frameworks to cover all elements affecting the OPCC’s reputation.

The post holder directs the OPCC’s overarching strategy for, and delivery of, OPCC media, digital presence, public affairs, campaign and marketing communications services acknowledging that they will be operating within a politically-dynamic environment, to generate mutual understanding, trust and confidence with our people, our partners and the public.  

Salary £74,106, full time position W14

There is certain information relating to the diversity of the staff I employ I am required to publish under the Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) Order 2011.  This information can be found below: