Agenda item

Report of the Commissioner (copy attached).

The Committee considered a report of the Commissioner setting out details of the new Strategic Policing Requirement and proposing the introduction of a strategic framework and Working Group to assist the Force in evidencing and challenging itself against the requirement.

The Commissioner emphasised the importance of ensuring a structured system was in place to guarantee that the Force was fully compliant with the requirement, recommending that a Lead Member be appointed to assist given the importance attached. Given the Deputy Chairman’s experience in the area having served on the Force’s Protective Services Group for several years, the Commissioner suggested that it might be appropriate for him to be appointed to the role, and Simon Duckworth confirmed that he would be happy to do so.

RESOLVED: That:-

·      the Force’s proposal to set up a Strategic Policing Requirement Working Group to assess and direct activity be endorsed; and,

·      Simon Duckworth be appointed Lead Member for the SPR Working Group, which will serve to involve the Police Authority in providing independent scrutiny and challenge.