Agenda item

Recruitment of External Member

·         In response to a question regarding the process of recruiting an external Member of the Committee, the Town Clerk noted that the intention was to advertise and recruit ahead of the Committee’s November 2020 meeting, although this would be offset by wider Authority governance work on drawing up Member role profiles and job descriptions. The process would also be aligned with the work of the City’s Tackling Racism Working Party.

·         A Member encouraged the Authority to be as creative as possible in advertising the vacancy and cited the example of recruiting young alumni on to Local Governing Bodies of academies in the City of London Academies Trust. The Member suggested that the Committee may benefit from hearing from a speaker from an independent organisation on this issue. Moreover greater use, particularly for recruiting City of London Police Authority Board external Members, could be made of professional head hunters.

External Scrutiny

·         In response to a question, the Deputy Head of the Police Authority Team noted that the Community Scrutiny Group and Independent Advisory Group had been amalgamated to form the Independent Advisory and Scrutiny Group (IASG) in December 2019. The new group arrangements were working well, and the Chairman of the City of London Police Authority Board would be attending a meeting of the IASG and vice versa. The Chair of the Professional Standards and Integrity Committee would also be attending a meeting of the IASG to better understand how the work of the two bodies could align. The reports on the work of the IASG that were submitted to the City of London Police Authority Board could also be submitted to the Committee for information.

·         The Deputy Head of the Police Authority Team confirmed that the Independent Custody Visitors’ Scheme (ICV) was Authority-led whereas the IASG was Force-led.