Transcript Police and Crime Commissioners and Community Safety

Police and Crime Commissioners
and Community Safety
Partnerships
Andy Thomas
Head of Service
Partnerships and Communities
Police and Crime Commissioner
Partnership Requirements
• Recognize partnership priorities and plans in
developing the Police and Crime Plan
• Engaging with communities
• Transfer of funding: Community Safety Fund, Drug
Intervention Programme and Young Persons Drug
Prevention Grant
• Passporting and subsequent ‘commissioning’ of
funds and interventions
• PCC involvement in local governance
Community Safety Partnerships
• Changing landscape of reduced requirements‘Localism’
• Significant reductions in local and national funding
streams
• Reduced reporting and performance monitoring
• Focus on doing rather than planning
• Reduction in central Government policy and guidance
• Majority of funding from local authority
Community Safety Partnerships
Statutory Requirements
• Executive meeting required: No guidance on who,
what or frequency
• 3 year Crime and Disorder Plan
• Annual Strategic Risk and Threat Assessment
• Rolling Annual Plan
PCCs and CSPs: Relationship
• PCCs not a ‘responsible authority’ under the 1998
CDA
• Mutual duty to co-operate
• Due regard: Police and Crime Plan/CSP Plan
• Governance and strategy: Where does the PCC fit in
• Local accountability: City/County/District
• PCC to ‘sign off’ mergers of CSPs
• PCCs change the landscape
Making it work locally
• PCCs will have a big impact on community safety
• Commissioning could replace partnership working
with a free market based on competition
• Local arrangements for ‘commissioning’
• PCCs getting involved in local arrangements
• Are local arrangements fit for purpose?
Risk/opportunity of CSP mergers
• Engaging and agreeing priorities through SIA, plans
and CSF spend plans
PCCs and CSPs: The Derby Picture
• Developing effective relationships is key
• Pre and Post election
• Joined up Police and Crime Plan and city SIA
priorities
• PCC and city council both Labour
• Overview and Scrutiny Chair on Police and Crime
Panel
• Agreement to passport funding in 2013-14
• PCC to sit on CSP Executive Group