Agenda item

Report of the Town Clerk

The Sub-Committee received a report of the Town Clerk that summarised the outstanding actions from previous meetings.

OR1 – Agenda Packs

The Sub-Committee discussed the proposition of reducing the security marking of future Professional Standards and Integrity Sub-Committee agenda standard items from “Confidential” to “Non-Public”.  It was agreed that since the evolution of the case summaries significantly reduced the incidence of sensitive information, the standing content of the agendas should be taken into consideration by the Professional Standards Department of CoLP to be marked safely as “Non-Public”.  It was agreed that this would both improve transparency, and improve timeliness and ease of access for Members to read reports ahead of meetings.  The new marking would enable the Town Clerk to post agenda packs directly to attendees, as well as circulate them digitally via email.  The Director of Professional Standards confirmed that she was going to have a meeting with her predecessor on 4 December to discuss any possible security implications this would pose for CoLP, with a sight to confirming the change ahead of the publication of the agenda for the next meeting on 5 March 2018. (1)  A Member noted the omission of ethnicity of the complainants since the revision of the Case and Complaints report to the summarised version.

OR2 – Staff Survey Report

The Chairman requested that the further Staff Survey update coming to Police Committee on 15 December be circulated to all Sub-Committee members not on the Grand Committee. (2)

OR3 – London Police Challenge Forum Minutes

The Head of Strategic Development explained that the minutes that were expected to have been signed off and circulated before the end of November, had not yet been released.  The Assistant Commissioner confirmed that he would be in contact with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) in the week commencing 4 December when he would enquire regarding their approval for release. (3)

OR4 – London Police Challenge Forum Date

A Member enquired about the attendance of the meeting, and the Head of Strategic Development confirmed that representatives of the MPS, British Transport Police Authority (BTPA) and CoLP would be present.  He also suggested that any Members who wish to attend would be most welcome to request an invite from him.  Two Members requested invites.

OR7 – Gifts and Hospitality Report

The Head of Strategic Development clarified that the report had been published online, but that the issue was surrounding its clear location on the website.  The Director of Professional Standards explained that wider updates to the website would be occurring in April 2018, and this would be actioned as part of this process. (4)

The Chairman noted that in previous meetings there had been discussion of a Body Worn Video (BWV) demonstration taking place at a future meeting.  The Assistant Commissioner explained that this could be arranged for the next meeting if desired.  It was requested that this be added to the Outstanding References. (5)

RESOLVED – That the report be received.