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Member involvement in Integrity Testing Oversight Panel
Report: 9
Date: 29 August 2000
By: Clerk
A. Supporting information
1. The Metropolitan Police Service is implementing a wide ranging Corruption and Dishonesty Prevention Strategy. One of the supporting elements of this strategy has been the introduction of Integrity Testing for police officers and civil staff within the MPS.
2. Integrity Testing creates a situation or condition likely to generate a reaction by an individual or group so that their reaction to that situation or condition can be assessed. There are two forms of Integrity Testing , the first involves the random selection of a particular location or group as a quality assurance check, the other involves the targeting of an identified individual, group or location as a result of specific intelligence.
3. The Metropolitan Police set up an Integrity Testing Oversight Panel in January 1999 comprising members of MPS Staff Associations, Trade Unions, community leaders and academics. It also included in its membership three members of the Metropolitan Police Committee.
4. The main function of the Panel is to provide an independent element of accountability for the work of integrity testing through oversight of the strategy generally. The full terms of reference for the committee are at Appendix A.
5. The last meeting of the group was in the late spring. Further meetings were then postponed pending the creation of the MPA.
6. The MPS now intends to reconstitute the Panel and has requested that the MPA nominate three members of the Professional Standards and Performance Monitoring Committee to sit upon it. The MPS intends to use the first meeting of the re-constituted committee to review the terms of reference, the membership of the group and the issue of its chairperson, which, up to now, has been a senior police officer.
B. Recommendations
- That three members of the Professional Standards and Performance Monitoring Committee are nominated to serve on the Integrity Testing Oversight Panel.
C. Financial implications
There may be some costs due to MPA members though their involvement with this panel.
D. Review arrangements
E. Background papers
- The MPS Corruption and Dishonesty Prevention Strategy (Special Notice 36/98) published 16 December 1998.
F. Contact details
The author of this report is Clive Williams.
For information contact:
MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18
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