Agenda item

References

Meeting of Professional Standards & Integrity (Police) Committee, Thursday, 26th November, 2020 11.00 am (Item 4.)

Joint report of the Town Clerk and Commissioner.

Minutes:

Members received a joint report of the Town Clerk and Commissioner regarding references and the following points were made.

14/2019/P - Integrity Dashboard and Code of Ethics Update

Future meeting dates of London Police Challenge Forum to be provided to the Committee.

· No meetings are currently arranged. Members asked that this was kept as a standing item and that they would be informed should a meeting date be confirmed.

17/2019/P – Police Authority Process for Handling Complaints

Appeals Process New Review Panel Process to be reviewed after three months of operation.

· The review would be submitted to the Committee at its next meeting in February 2021.

20/2019/P – Ethical Economic Partnerships Policy

Ethical Economic Partnerships Policy to be reviewed by Professional Standards and Integrity Committee after one year of operation.

· An update was included in the pack for today’s meeting. Members requested that, going forward, updated versions should be submitted on an annual basis.

1/2020/P – Integrity Dashboard and Code of Ethics Update

Case studies arising from London Police Challenge Forum Meetings to be circulated to Committee

· See 14/2019/P – once a meeting is held, case studies will be circulated to the Committee.

2/2020/P – Integrity Dashboard and Code of Ethics Update

Committee to be advised when next Victim Satisfaction Survey will be conducted

· The next Victim Satisfaction Survey would be submitted to the Committee, for information, at its next meeting in February 2021.

3/2020/P – Integrity Dashboard and Code of Ethics Update

Force Human Resources to provide report to June 2020 meeting on statistics of temporary promotions at all levels of Force

· A Report was included in the pack for today’s meeting.

4/2020/P – COVID-19 FPNs

NPCC Policing the Pandemic to be circulated to the Committee

· The Chairman asked the Town Clerk to circulate the NPCC Policing the Pandemic to the Committee after today’s meeting.

5/2020/P – Stop and Search Q1 2020/21

Force to review provision of breakdown by ethnicity/age of 235 stops outside City

· A Report was included in the pack for today’s meeting concerning stop and search. breakdown of the figures

6/2020/P – Stop and Search Q1 2020/21

Written response to be prepared addressing issues raised by observing Member

· This was picked up on today’s agenda (ITEM 7)

7/2020/P – Summary of Reviews of Police Complaints

Action Fraud Complaints Manager to attend November 2020 Committee

· The Action Fraud Complaints Manager was in attendance at today’s meeting.

8/2020/P – Summary of Reviews of Police Complaints

Report on other avenues of appeal to be submitted to Committee

· The Report would be submitted to the Committee at its next meeting in February 2021.

9/2020/P – Questions – Recruitment of External Member

Recruitment process to be reviewed to ensure diverse pool of experienced candidates is identified.

· Officers explained that the Job Description (JD) still required some work; the documentation had not been updated for some time and would need to be refined before we could go out to advertise the role; officers were keen to consult Members next month (December), possibly at the Police Authority Board meeting on 16/12 to ensure that they were content with the new JD.

· In terms of a timeline, officers were working at pace to ensure that interviews were able to take place in early 2021. Members thanked officers for their work on this, whilst they were eager to press on speedily, it was important to be thorough and get this right.

· Once the JD had been agreed, it was critical that the advertisement was circulated to as wide a pool of potential candidates as possible, the Chair asked her fellow Members to provide details to officers of any relevant portals or forums that the advert could be shared with.

· Members were also supportive of asking the Police Authority Board to waive the usual stipulation when appointing external Members (i.e. they had to live or work in the City); it was felt that this unnecessarily restricted the potential pool.