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The New World-How Chief Constables
are going to work with PCC’s
Chief Constable Simon Cole
ACPO lead for Local Policing and Partnerships Business Area
ACPO lead for Mental Health and Disability Portfolio
Miranda:
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!
Prospero:
'Tis new to thee.
The Tempest Act 5, scene 1, 181–184
Section 60 PCC Elections Order 2012
No member of a police force for any police
area may by word, message, writing or in
any other manner, endeavour to persuade
any person to give, or dissuade any
person from giving his or her vote, whether
as an elector or as proxy at PCC election.
‘We have to make this work-we can’t even
consider it not working so it has to work’
Sir Hugh Orde
Opportunities:
•
Public Debate on Policing
•
Enhanced focus on what local people want
•
One to one professional relationship
•
Better cross agency join up on key issues:
-Drink
-Drugs
-Mental Health
-Offender Management
-Criminal Justice
•
Advocacy
Policing Protocol
The PCC has the legal power and duty to• Set the strategic direction and objectives of the force
• Scrutinise, support and challenge the overall
performance of the force
• Hold the Chief Constable to account for the performance
of the force’s officers and staff
• Provide the local link between the police and
communities, working to translate the legitimate desires
and aspirations of the public into action
• PCC must not fetter the operational independence of the
police force and Chief Constable who leads it
Policing Protocol
The Chief Constable holds office under the crown
and is:
• Responsible for maintaining the Queen’s Peace, and has
direction and control over the force’s officers and staff.
• Accountable to the law for the exercise of police powers,
and to the PCC for the delivery of efficient and effective
policing, management of resources and expenditure by
the police force.
• The operational voice of policing, regularly explaining to
the public the operational actions of officers and staff
under their command.
‘The fact that the British Police are answerable to
the law, that we act on behalf of the community
and not under the mantle of Government, makes
us the least powerful, the most accountable and
therefore the most acceptable police service in
the world’
Sir Robert Mark
Strategic Policing Requirement
Threats, actual and prospective, to:
• national security
• public safety
• public order
• public confidence
that are of such gravity as to be of national importance or
which can be countered effectively or efficiently only by
national policing capabilities.
National Crime Agency
"I shall be working closely with chief constables,
leaders of other law-enforcement organisations,
Police Authorities, Police and Crime
Commissioners and the Government to ensure
that the NCA delivers the maximum protection
possible for communities within the resources it
has available."
Chief Constable Keith Bristow
Head NCA
• Strategic Direction v/s Operational
Independence
• The public face-who says what?
Melton Shooting
‘Police seek and preserve public favour not
by catering to public opinion but by
constantly demonstrating absolute
impartial service to the law’.
Robert Peel
‘The householder is the victim here and
justice should support them and prosecute the
burglars.’
‘Luckily, the media attention made the police and
Crown Prosecution Service realise just how
strongly people feel about this sort of thing’.
Alan Duncan MP
Tasers-whose decision?
•Knife wielding mentally ill man
•Wheelchair-bound man
•Mentally ill man who stabbed his parents
Tasers-whose decision?
• The Lord Chief Justice dismissed an application seeking
to quash the decision to introduce tasers for use by the
Police Service of Northern Ireland.
• Eight year old girl seeking two orders: one quashing the
decision of the Chief Constable to introduce tasers for
use by the PSNI, and one quashing the decisions of the
NI Policing Board that the deployment of tasers was an
operational matter for the Chief Constable and its
decision to support the Chief Constable in his proposal
to introduce tasers.
Tasers-whose decision?
• The Lord Chief Justice reviewed the legislation
establishing the Board and setting out its role
and functions. He concluded that the decision to
provide and deploy tasers was an operational
decision wholly for the Chief Constable and not
a decision for the Board.
‘Let me be clear: the operations of the police will not be
politicised; who is arrested and how investigations work
will not become political decisions. PCCs will not
manage the forces that they govern and they will
recognise that the only way of making a police force
effective is by letting the professionals do their job’.
Theresa May
Supts. Association Conference
11/9/12
Operational Independence
‘No Minister of the Crown can tell him that he
must, or must not, keep observation on this
place or that; or that he must, or must not,
prosecute this man or that one. Nor can any
police authority tell him so. The responsibility for
law enforcement lies on him. He is answerable
to the law and to the law alone’.
Lord Denning 1968
Transparency
PCC Oath:
“I do solemnly and sincerely promise that I will serve all the people of Force
Area in the office of police and crime commissioner without fear or favour.
“I will act with integrity and diligence in my role and, to the best of my ability,
will execute the duties of my office to ensure that the police are able to cut
crime and protect the public.
“I will give a voice to the public, especially victims of crime and work with other
services to ensure the safety of the community and effective criminal justice.
“I will take all steps within my power to ensure transparency of my decisions,
so that I may be properly held to account by the public.
“I will not seek to influence or prevent any lawful and reasonable investigation
or arrest, nor encourage any police action save that which is lawful and
justified within the bounds of this office.”
Summary
• PCC = ‘What and Why’
• CC= ‘How’
The New World-How Chief Constables
are going to work with PCC’s
Chief Constable Simon Cole
ACPO lead for Local Policing and Partnerships Business Area
ACPO lead for Mental Health and Disability Portfolio