Agenda item

To agree the public minutes and summary of the meeting held on Thursday 30 May 2013.

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the last meeting held on 30 May 2013 be approved as an accurate record.

Matters Arising

Dedicated Ring of Steel Patrols

An email had been sent to Members regarding the Ring of Steel patrols outlining their status as a City of London Corporation responsibility. The Chairman queried as to the frequency of maintenance of the checkpoint at the Northern Gate of the City to which the Town Clerk’s Department undertook to investigate the situation.

Members queried as to Force visibility at the start and the end of the day, to which the Assistant Commissioner advised that the number of 15 to 20 officers was a good estimate although this figure did not take into account officers indirectly involved in patrol.

999 Call Response Rate

A Member queried as whether further work had been undertaken to analyse the call response time between the MET switchboard and the Force to improve response times. The Assistant Commissioner advised that Members might want to consider looking at the response rate target as part of the Policing Plan workshops in October and November 2013.

Item 5 – Human Resources – Monitoring Information (April 2012 to March 2013)

A Member advised she met with the Force’s HR department and the matter of making the workforce more representative of the community was being addressed for the future recruitment practises of new constables.

Item 7 – Internal Audit Update Report

The Chairman raised concerns that internal audit had not presented the agreed report to the Sub Committee and sought assurance from Chamberlain’s that it would be presented to the next Sub Committee.

The Chamberlain advised they had discussed the internal audit programme with the Assistant Commissioner and assured Members that internal audit would deliver its audit days in 2013-14. However they will be looking at reviewing their programme for 2014/15.