Agenda item

Report of the Commissioner of Police.

The Committee received a report of the Commissioner of Police presenting the ‘designed’ Policing Plan approved at the January Committee.

The Commissioner advised that the designed version had not yet been reviewed for typing or other errors, which first printed drafts usually contained, but that this would be done before the plan was formally published.

The Committee noted that the measures had also been considered and formally agreed by the Police Performance and Resources Sub Committee on the 24 February 2016, so the wording of some of the measures in the version in front of Members were still subject to slight change.

The Deputy Chairman, and Chairman of the Police Performance and Resources Sub Committee reported that the Sub-Committee had raised a number of comments in relation to the use of the word ‘level’ instead of numbers, the number of surveys being undertaken as a measuring tool and how reliable these were, the need to target cyclists as well as motorists and whether or not ‘narrative assessment’ involved external scrutiny.

The Sub-Committee had raised a question concerning a measure for rough sleepers, and was advised by the COLP that this had not been raised as an issue of concern within the community. Rough sleepers came under the responsibility of the local authority and not the Police.

The Sub-Committee had also asked for the inclusion of a measure for victims of anti-social behaviour, and had agreed to revisit and review the measure for Cybercrime after six months.

RESOLVED – That the report of the Commissioner and comments of the Performance and Resources Sub Committee be noted.