Policing and best value performance plan

Report: 8
Meeting: Metropolitan Police Authority
Date: 10 July 2000
By: Clerk

Summary

To present to the Authority the current Policing and Performance Plan for noting.

A. Supporting information

1. Members will be aware that an amalgamated Policing and Best Value Performance Plans for year 2000/2001 have been produced by the Commissioner, following detailed discussions with the Metropolitan Police Committee, and approved by the Home Secretary. The plan was published on the internet on 31 March 2000 and a hard copy form with updated performance information was published and circulated to Members in June. A glossy 'summary' for the public will be published shortly. These two documents are also designed to fulfil the statutory requirement on the Commissioner to produce an annual report.

2. The MPS has produced the plans in line with statutory requirements. In fact the plans do not have any statutory basis as, at the time they were produced, the MPS was not subject to the relevant provisions of the 1996 Police Act, nor was it (or the Home Secretary) a best value authority. The transitional provisions for bring the entry into force in the GLA Act 1999 did not include any provision for giving the plans statutory effect. The Home Secretary's preference was rather that the 2000/2001 plans be offered to the MPA with the suggestion that the Authority use the policing plan as the basis on which to review performance in its first nine months. MPA would make statutory plans in the normal way for 2001/2002. The GLA Act provides for the MPA to become Best Value authority from 3 July and the Authority will wish to consider the MPS Best Value Performance plan, and in particular the forward programme of best value reviews, on that basis.

3. The Chair of the Finance, Planning and Best Value Committee has agreed that the plans for Year 2000/2001 should be the subject of a workshop during the afternoon of 10/7/2000 which is open to all members of the Authority. The basis on which to adopt the MPS plans can then be considered at the first meeting of the Finance, Planning and Best Value Committee scheduled for 20th July 2000. The Committee should then be able to recommend to the full Authority how best to proceed at its next meeting scheduled for 28/7/2000.

B. Recommendation

That the Authority notes the Policing and Performance Plan 2000/2001.

C. Financial implications

There are no financial implications.

D. Review arrangements

The Authority will be involved in both monitoring performance against the plan and developing the 2001/2002 plan.

E. Background papers

The following is a statutory list of background papers (under the Local Government Act 1972 S.100 D) which disclose facts or matters on which the report is based and which have been relied on to a material extent in preparing this report. They are available on request to either the contact officer listed above or to the Clerk to the Police Authority at the address indicated on the agenda.

• MPS Policing and Performance Plan 2000/2001.

F. Contact details

The author of this report is Peter Martin.

For information contact:

MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18

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