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Report 4 of the 16 September 2010 meeting of the Strategic and Operational Policing Committee, provides details of the proposed amendments to the terms of reference for the Professional Standards Cases Sub-committee
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Report on amending the terms of reference for the Professional Standards Cases Sub-committee
Report: 4
Date: 16 September 2010
By: Chief Executive
Summary
This report asks this Committee to recommend to the full Authority to agree to changes to the terms of reference for the Professional Standards Cases Sub-committee.
A. Recommendation
That Members recommend to the Full Authority that it agrees the following changes to the terms of reference of the Professional Standards Cases Sub-committee:
To delete paragraph 5 and add as a header “Business Interests” and add 5.1 “To exercise the Authority’s functions in relation to business interests, including applications and requests for reconsideration from senior officers, and appeals from officers.
Add a new paragraph 6 “Dip Sampling” and insert “to exercise the functions of the Authority in relation to reviewing the quality assurance processes of the MPS complaint and conduct process in relation to officers, including all matters around dip sampling of MPS closed complaint and conduct files.”
B. Supporting information
1. The Authority has a statutory duty to determine business interest applications and requests for reconsideration of this determination from ACPO officers (Regulation 7 and 8 of the Police Regulations 2003).
2. The Authority also has a statutory duty to maintain an efficient and effective police force (Section 6 (1) Police Act 1966), and this includes a duty for it to keep informed about the handling of complaints and misconduct matters by the MPS (Section 15 Police Reform Act 2002). The Association of Police Authority’s guidance sets out best practice for Authorities on how to fulfil this duty [1]. It states that the Authority can fulfil this duty by dip sampling closed complaint and misconduct files.
3. It is considered that the Professional Standards Cases Sub-committee is the most appropriate Committee or Sub-committee of the Authority to consider such matters as it currently considers business interest appeals from officers.
C. Other organisational and community implications
Equality Impact
1. There are no equalities implications arising from this report.
MET Forward
2. There are no direct Met Forward implications arising from this report.
Financial Implications
3. There are no direct financial implications arising from this report.
Legal Implications
4. This Committee has the power to agree to these recommendations. The legal implications are included in this report.
Environmental Implications
5. There are no direct environmental implications arising from this report.
Risk Implications
6. There are no direct risk implications arising from this report.
Background papers
None.
Contact details
Report author: Helen Sargeant, MPA.
For information contact:
MPA general: 020 7202 0202
Media enquiries: 020 7202 0217/18
Footnotes
1. Oversight and scrutiny of professional standards matters The role of police authorities - May 2007 [Back]
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