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AFEP - Finance for Non Finance Managers within Policing
Event summary
A practical, simplified half-day course aimed at managers in police forces (including officers and staff) and staff in OPCCs who haven't had formal finance training.
An AFEP IV Prepaid is required to attend this event
Date
10 September 2025
Starts: 09:30
Ends: 13:00
Location
online
Standard price
£0.00 excl VAT
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About this event
The course provides a basic level of knowledge on the background to police funding and budgeting. It includes police specific case studies to enable delegates take a more active role in business planning and budget management in their organisation.
How will you benefit from attending?
- A clearer understanding of police finance terminology, police funding sources and how the money is spent
- A better understanding of budgeting, budget monitoring and control
- How to put a business plan together.
CPD hours
This carries three CPD hours.
Speaker - Lisa Forster, Principal Consultant
Lisa is a CIPFA qualified accountant, and has worked for the institute since 2008. She joined as a finance advisor in CIPFA Networks, and more recently moved across to the advisory team. Her two areas of expertise are in education finance, particularly academy accounts and assurance, and also in local government transformation around the consideration of alternative service delivery models.
Speaker - Alison Dewhirst, Police & Fire Associate Advisor
Alison has worked in and for policing for over 30 years since her first days as a researcher for City of London Police. Alison is passionate about the practical aspects of policy implementation, analysing how initiatives fit together in the bigger picture of policing as a whole.
During her 21 years working as the Police Advisor for CIPFA, she endeavoured to examine these issues and to share good practice being developed by forces and consider their application to other areas, through the CIPFA Police and Fire Network. More recently, she was also involved in the establishment and running of the Achieving Financial Excellence in Policing (AFEP) programme.
Alison was involved in the financial and governance aspects of police reform, including the introduction of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) in 2012 and legislation to allow PCCs to take on the governance of fire and rescue services in 2017. Alison has worked closely with the Home Office, HMICFRS, National Audit Office and Audit Wales over many years. Since leaving CIPFA in December 2021, Alison undertakes consultancy projects in policing and is a police and fire associate advisor for CIPFA.
Alison has an Honours degree in Economics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and a Master’s degree in Politics (public policy) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.