Statement on the Emergency response to
Coronavirus
At this time of national emergency, the
Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Panel wishes to express their
support for the Acting Commissioner, Cambridgeshire Constabulary
and Special Constabulary. By working closely with the NHS, Fire and
Rescue Service and Local Government, and using the new powers in
the Coronavirus Act 2020, they are meeting the considerable
challenge of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Whilst the Panel is unable to meet while social
distancing measures are in place, an interim arrangement has been
agreed between the chair of the Panel and the Acting Commissioner.
Monthly teleconference calls involving the Acting Commissioner and
his staff, including the Chief Executive, and the Panel chair,
vice-chair and support staff provide a regular opportunity for the
Panel to continue to scrutinise and support the Acting
Commissioner.
Please note the agenda
for each meeting will be published at least 6 working
days before the date of each meeting.
Purpose of
Panel
The
Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 introduced
significant changes in police governance and accountability, in
particular replacing the Police Authorities with directly elected
Police and Crime Commissioners (Commissioners).
The
public accountability for the delivery and performance of the
police service within each force area will be placed into the hands
of the commissioner on behalf of their electorate. The commissioner
will draw on their mandate to set and shape the strategic
objectives of their force area in consultation with the chief
constable. The commissioner will be accountable to their
electorate; the chief constable will be accountable to the
commissioner.
The
Act also requires the local authorities in each police force area
to establish a police and crime panel (panel), as a joint
committee, primarily to scrutinise the commissioner. The Act also
prescribes many of the arrangements with regard to the panel and
the way in which it conducts its business.
According to the Home Office, “Panels are not a
replacement for the police authority. They will fulfil an important
role in scrutinising the commissioner but we need to be clear that
this reform is about reconnecting the police and the people. This
will be achieved through a directly elected police and crime
commissioner not through the police and crime panel. The panel will
have an important scrutiny role in relation to the commissioner,
however it is the commissioner who is taking on the role of the
police authority and who the public will hold to account for the
performance of their force.”
Peterborough City Council is
the host Authority for the Cambridgeshire Panel. Please send any queries for the Panel to jane.webb@peterborough.gov.uk
in the first instance.
For any queries for the Police
and Crime Commissioner or his deputy, please see the website
http://www.cambridgeshire-pcc.gov.uk/
which contains the following contact details for his
office:
Cambridgeshire Police and Crime Commissioner
PO Box 688
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE29 9LA
By email: cambs-pcc@cambs.pnn.police.uk
By dialling: 0300 333 3456
By fax: 01480 425748
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