Transcript Insert main title here - Lincolnshire Independents

Police Reform and Social
Responsibility Act 2011
Mark Norris,
Senior Adviser,
LGA
21 November 2011
www.local.gov.uk
What will be covered in the workshop
• Police and Crime Panels (PCPs);
• Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCS) and
community safety partnerships (CSPs);
• Alcohol licensing changes; and
• What help and assistance do you want from
the LGA?
Police and Crime Panels – the basics
• Will be one for each force area, and will be
established by the councils in that area;
• Role is to both review and scrutinise the
PCC’s actions and decisions, and also to
assist them in the effective exercise of their
functions;
• They are not a police authority in another
form; and
• Will have a minimum of 12 members and a
maximum of 20.
The Panel’s Powers
• Require the PCC or their staff to attend the panel,
and can invite the chief constable;
• Require the PCC to respond in writing to any report
the PCP sends to the PCC;
• Suspend the PCC where he/she has been charged
with an offence which carries a maximum term in
prison of more than two years;
• Appoint an acting PCC; and
• Veto the PCC’s precept or choice of chief constable.
The Panel also has to…
• Be given any information it reasonably requires to
carry out its functions;
• Review the draft police and crime plan;
• Review the PCC’s annual report and hold a public
meeting to question the PCC about it;
• Review the PCC’s chief constable and senior staff
appointments and hold public confirmation hearings
for them;
• Review the PCC’s precept; and
• Resolve non-criminal complaints against the PCC.
An effective panel
• Active or reactive scrutiny?
• Use of panel members and subcommittees/task and finish groups?
• Levels of support and training?
• Which members serve on the panel?
• Relationship with local crime and disorder
scrutiny committees?
• Protocol with the PCC?
Questions?
Police and Crime Commissioners - Community Safety
Police and Crime Panel
Scrutinise
1
2
Police and Crime
Commissioner
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4
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Duty to have
regard to each other’s priorities
Power to call CSP chairs to a meeting
to discuss force-wide issues
Power to request a report
Power to
approve
Grant making powers
Request merger
Community
Safety Partnerships
Commissioning community safety
activity
• 2011-12 – 20% reduction in Community
Safety Fund, paid to unitaries and counties.
• 2012-13 – further 40% reduction, paid to
unitaries and counties.
• 15 November 2012 – election day.
• 1 April 2013 – all Community Safety grant
funding paid to PCC (happened from 1 April
2011 in London) – to be confirmed.
What might be different?
• PCCs may choose to commission ALL CS services – or just
focus on policing. Ringfencing undecided but likely to be
removed (e.g. DIP – though H&WBB DIP monies may
continue to be ring-fenced).
• If so, services will need to be evidenced for delivery and
quality – evaluations must be of a high standard.
• You may be in competition with third/private sector providers.
Is it worth competing, or do you withdraw from delivering
some services?
• If you do compete, do you need to merge services for
efficiency across boundaries?
• Can you create a single commissioning framework across the
force area to realise efficiencies?
Preparing your CSP for PCCs
• Bring partners and CSPs together across the force area to discuss impact
• Review current partnership arrangements – can they be simplified/made
more efficient?
• Consider current partnership priorities, and the potential involvement and
interests of the PCC
• Think about how the PCC can easily access partnerships
• Evaluate and assess for VfM all activity; consider what the PCC might
wish to see
• Consider joint commissioning across areas, partners, services
• Work with Scrutiny officials to consider how the Panel may link with local
O&S committees and might be serviced.
• Considering the way in which PCCs can deliver better outcomes for local
people. Working with other partners to develop the right solutions to local
issues in a new and co-ordinated way.
Questions?
Licensing changes
The Act:
• Provides for councils to set licensing fees;
• Repeals alcohol disorder zones and replaces
them with a Late Night Levy;
• Extends the length of time Early Morning
Restriction Orders can last, so councils can
set times between midnight and 6am when
alcohol may not be served;
Licensing changes part II
The Act also:
• Increases the fine for persistently selling alcohol to
children;
• Removes the vicinity test and allows ‘appropriate’
rather than ‘necessary’ conditions to be imposed;
• Makes licensing authorities, PCTs and Local Health
Boards responsible authorities; and
• Allows councils to publish its licensing policy every 5
years, not every 3 years.
Questions?
Questions for small group discussions
1. How advanced are your own authority’s
preparations for PCCs?
2. What messages would you like the LGA to
feedback to the Home Office?
3. What support would you like from the LGA
over the next year to help prepare for PCCs?
4. Are there any other issues, concerns and
questions that you want to address?
Mark Norris - PCPs
[email protected]
020 7664 3241
Chris Williams - CSPs
[email protected]
020 7664 3292
Gwyneth Rogers – Licensing
[email protected]
020 7664 3861