Agenda item

To receive a report of the City Remembrancer.

The Committee received a report of the City Remembrancer which provided an overview of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, due to be active in the next month, and identified those issues most likely to be of relevance to the City.

The Committee had received a report in April 2013, which highlighted the role of the National Crime Agency (NCA), which the Force had been working with in shadow form. It was highlighted that the Director General of the NCA would have the power to make a request of a police force that would be required to be approved by the relevant Minister and special need.

The Commissioner stated that there was a great deal of uncertainty of how authority would translate once the Act was operational and there had been discussion of how Forces would be tasked and the CoLP was awaiting a response to this query. The Force was already working with the shadow form of the Economic Crime Command. The Remembrancer  undertook to brief the Chairman further on this process.