Issue - meetings

Report of Head of Community Services

Summary

To report on progress to date on the implementation of the Police Crime Commissioner (PCC) and the Thames Valley Police and Crime Panel (PCP) and to seek approval for proposed arrangements.

Recommendations

The Executive is recommended to:

(1)               Support the offer from Buckingham County Council (BCC) to host the PCP.

(2)               Note the approach through the Chief Executives Thames Valley PCC Transition Group to work on the implementation process.

(3)               Note officer nominations on the Scrutiny Group and the Task and Finish Group.

(4)               Approve the nomination of the relevant Lead Member as the Council’s representative on the Member Steering Group of the PCP.

Recommendations approved.

The Head of Community Services submitted a report on progress to date on the implementation of the Police Crime Commissioner (PCC) and the Thames Valley Police and Crime Panel (PCP) and sought approval for proposed arrangements.

Resolved

(1)               That the offer from Buckingham County Council (BCC) to host the Police and Crime Panel be supported.

(2)               That the approach through the Chief Executives Thames Valley Police Crime Commissioner Transition Group to work on the implementation process be noted.

(3)               That the officer nominations on the Scrutiny Group and the Task and Finish Group be noted.

(4)               That the nomination of the relevant Lead Member as the Council’s representative on the Member Steering Group of the Police and Crime Panel be approved.

Reasons

The Governments message is quite clear that there will be no prescriptive detail being handed down in the development of the PCC and PCP.  However current guidance suggests a PCP role wider than that of light touch scrutiny. There is little guidance on how Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs) will communicate with the PCC other than the Act specifies CSPs as having a reciprocal duty to interact with the PCC. In addition the PCC has the authority to call CSPs to account where they appear to be failing.

In Oxfordshire the OSCP Board is developing a strategy to facilitate the PCC by creating a business plan to deliver priorities set out in the final TVPA Policing Plan and any additions created by the incoming PCC manifesto.

By supporting the BCC proposal it will allow the PCP to form prior to the PCC elections; vote on the co-optee members; and enable the Transition Group to create a briefing for the public and incoming PCC.

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