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Martin Davis – Head of Engagement & Partnerships

MPA and Scrutiny. Martin Davis – Head of Engagement & Partnerships. What is the MPA?. An appointed regional committee for: Strategic planning and management for London policing - setting strategic policing priorities and performance targets - £3.5 billion policing budget

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Martin Davis – Head of Engagement & Partnerships

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  1. MPA and Scrutiny Martin Davis – Head of Engagement & Partnerships

  2. What is the MPA? An appointed regional committee for: Strategic planning and management for London policing - setting strategic policing priorities and performance targets - £3.5 billion policing budget Appointing senior officers - (with the exception of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner), together with appraisal of and any disciplinary action against these officers Consulting and engaging with local people - to find out what they want from their local police and working as a statutory partner within the 32 Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships covering a population of 7.5 million people across London

  3. MPA Membership The Metropolitan Police Authority 23 members: 12 Assembly members, appointed by the Mayor 10 Independent members, at least one of whom must be a magistrate 1 Independent member appointed by the Home Secretary The current chairman is the Mayor of London Boris Johnson and the Vice-Chairman is Kit Malthouse (Deputy Mayor for Policing). Members are supported by a small Secretariat structured to focus on the MPA’s statutory responsibilities.

  4. MPA’s Key Objectives Fight Crime and Reduce Criminality Increase confidence in policing Give better value for money The MPA steers it work through eight work strands within its strategic document Met Forward. These strand include Met Streets - delivering order, control and safety to the public realm Met Specialist - driving performance and trust in our non-territorial crime fighting Met Partners -assembling the coalition to fight crime Met Connect -a better conversation with those we protect (community engagement)

  5. Police Authority & Scrutiny • Police Authorities have a key scrutiny role in holding chief constables to account and monitoring local police performance more broadly. • Exercised through both continuing executive scrutiny, committee scrutiny activities and scrutiny projects. • MPA scrutiny programme has included Stop and Search, Police Role within CDRPs, Working with Young People, Counter-Terrorism. • The main instrument for local scrutiny is the police authority's annual policing plan, which outlines the local policing priorities and targets for that year. The authority then monitors, and reports back to the community, on how well the police force has performed against the local policing plan's requirements. • Police authorities have a statutory duties to consult the public before setting policing objectives and to ensure continuing community consultation.

  6. The Citizen Focus Agenda and Governance Agenda • Locally Accountable or Answerable? • Local Community? • Mechanisms for accountability • Elected Representatives/Scrutiny • Role of Police Internal Management • Role of Police Authority • Role of Regional Authority/JEM • Role of Regional GOs

  7. CDRP Scrutiny • Duty (Criminal Justice Act 2006) given to local authority councillors to review and scrutinise CDRPs, and ensure their accountability. • Done through a Community Safety Scrutiny Committee (CSSC) to enable formal review and comment upon the work being undertaken to reduce crime and disorder in each CDRP borough. • The role of the CSSC is described as “critical friend” of the community safety partnership, providing it with constructive challenge at a strategic level. • Regulations passed under section 20 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 introducing the concept of Hallmarks of Effective Crime and Disorder Partnership Work; to provide local authorities with a framework for the development active interventions to tackle and reduce crime. • To support the implementation of the Act, a guidance entitled “National Support Framework: Delivering Safer and Confident Communities was issued by the Home Office at the end of May 2009.

  8. MPA Option • The preferred option is Option 2 • Would enable the MPA link member to receive a standing invitation to attend the scrutiny meetings as an ‘expert advisor’ or nominate an officer to attend • Option 1 or Option 3 would require the MPA member to be regularly present as full or co-opted member of the committee. • Members were of opinion that Option 2 would avoid conflict of interest in being both member of a Scrutiny Group and subkject of scrutiny.

  9. Thanks for Listening

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