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Specified Information Order

 

The Police and Crime Commissioner is required to publish specified information.   

The Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information) (Amendment) Order 2011 (2011/3050) came into force on 16 January 2012. The original Order was subsequently amended by three further Orders (2012/2479, 2013/1816 and 2021/547). 

The heading for each specified order is detailed below with a link to the relevant page or the download holding the required information.

 

Information item

2. Staff (and, in relation to gifts and hospitality, also the relevant office holders) of the elected local policing body

a) the number of members of the staff; (“staff”, where the elected policing body is a police and crime commissioner, does not include a deputy police and crime commissioner appointed by the commissioner);

b) the proportion of the staff who –
(i) are women,
(ii) are, to the knowledge of the elected local policing body, members of an ethnic minority,
(iii) have, to the knowledge of the elected local policing body, a disability (within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality Act 2010(a));

c) an organisational chart showing the structure of the staff;

d) the job title, responsibilities and salary of each senior employee and (unless the senior employee refuses to consent to the publication of his name) the name of the senior employee;(“senior employee” means a member of the staff of an elected local policing body whose salary exceeds £58,200);

e) a register of each offer of a gift or hospitality made to a relevant office holder or member of staff, indicating whether the offer was accepted or refused.

2A. In relation to –

(a) the duty of the chief officer of the police force maintained by the elected local policing body to provide assistance to the body under section 2(5) or 4(5) of the 2011 Act; and

(b) the power of a local authority to provide administrative, professional or technical services to the elected local policing body under section 1(1) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970

Information as to any arrangements for use by the elected local policing body of the staff of the chief officer or of a local authority under those provisions.

3. Income & expenditure of the elected local policing body

a) the total budget of the elected local policing body;
(for previous years see this link)

b) where the elected local policing body is a police and crime commissioner, the precept issued by the commissioner;

c) information as to each anticipated source of revenue of the elected local policing body (other than, in the case of a police and crime commissioner, the precept);

d) information as to the proposed expenditure of the elected local policing body;

e) a copy of the annual investment strategy of the elected local policing body;

f) information as to each crime and disorder reduction grant made by the elected local policing body, including the conditions (if any) attached to the grant, the recipient of the grant, the purpose of the grant and the reasons why the body considered that the grant would secure, or contribute to securing, crime and disorder reduction in the body’s area;

(g) information as to each item of expenditure of
(i) the elected local policing body, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body, exceeding £500 (other than a crime and disorder reduction grant made by the elected local policing body), including the recipient of the funds, the purpose of the expenditure and the reasons why the body or the chief officer (as the case may be) considered that good value for money would be obtained.

(h) information as to each item of expenditure of the elected local policing body in relation to travel by, accommodation for, or the subsistence of, a relevant office holder, including the recipient of the funds, the purpose of the expenditure and the reasons why the elected local policing body considered that good value for money would be obtained.

7. Prevention of crime and disorder

Crime and Disorder Reduction Report.

The Crime and Disorder Act 1998 requires that all responsible authorities (as defined in Section 5 of the act) implement:-

  1. a strategy for the reduction of crime and disorder in the area (including anti-social and other behaviour adversely affecting the local environment),
  2. a strategy for combatting the misuse of drugs, alcohol and other substances in the area,
  3. a strategy for the reduction of re-offending in the area and
  4. a strategy for preventing people from becoming involved in serious violence in the area, and reducing instances of serious violence in the area.

The PCC may require a report from the responsible authorities only if
(a) the PCC is not satisfied that the responsible authorities for the area are carrying out their functions under section 6 in an effective and efficient manner, and
(b) the PCC considers it reasonable and proportionate in all the circumstances to require a report

As of December 2023 no report has been required by the PCC.

7A. Key national priorities for policing.  

In relation to the key national priorities for policing, as communicated to elected local policing bodies by the Secretary of State— 

(a) a statement on the contribution of the police force maintained by the elected local policing body to achieving improvements against those priorities; 

(b) an explanation of which of the national priorities are assessed to be applicable and which not applicable in the context of the relevant police area and the reasons for that assessment. 

7B. HMRCFRS Inspections and reports. 

In relation to inspections and reports by the inspectors of constabulary under section 54(2) of the Police Act 1996 (appointment and functions of inspectors of constabulary)(2), the most recent— 

(a) annual report on the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy of the police force maintained by the elected local policing body; 

(b) summary assessment of the performance of the police force maintained by the elected local policing body. 

 

7C.Complaints concerning the police force maintained by the local policing body. 

In relation to complaints concerning the police force maintained by the elected local policing body— 

(a) the most recent— 

(i) quarterly data in relation to that police force; 

(ii) annual statistics report, 

Published by the Independent Office for Police Conduct 

(b) a report setting out— 

(i) details of how the elected local policing body has fulfilled its duty under—

(aa) in the case of police and crime commissioners, section 1(8)(ca) of the 2011 Act (police and crime commissioners)(3) to hold the chief constable to account for the exercise of the chief constable’s functions under Part 2 of the Police Reform Act 2002(4) in relation to the handling of complaints; 

(bb) in the case of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, section 3(8)(ca) of the 2011 Act (Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime)(5) to hold the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to account for the exercise of the Commissioner’s functions under Part 2 of the Police Reform Act 2002 in relation to the handling of complaints; 

This is not applicable to Hampshire OPCC.

(ii) an assessment by the elected local policing body of its performance in exercising its functions under paragraph 30(1)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002 (reviews: the relevant review body)(6); 

(iii) where the elected local policing body has given notice to the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body under section 13A of the Police Reform Act 2002 (local policing bodies: functions in relation to complaints)(7) that it is to exercise certain functions of the chief officer in relation to complaints, an assessment by the body of its performance in exercising those functions. 

This is not applicable to Hampshire OPCC.

8. Independent Custody Visitor arrangements made under section 51 of the Police Reform Act 2002(a)