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
1. Relevant office holders of the elected local policing body
2. Staff (and, in relation to gifts and hospitality, also the relevant office holders) of the elected local policing body
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;
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
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)
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;
(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.
4. Property, rights and liabilities of the elected local policing body
(b) a copy of each contract with a value exceeding £10,000 to which –
(i) the elected local policing body, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body, is or is to be a party;
(c) a copy of each invitation to tender issued by
(i) the elected local policing body, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body, in relation to a contract which the body or chief officer (as the case may be) expects will have a value exceeding £10,000;
(d) a list of every contract with a value not exceeding £10,000 to which –
(i) the elected local policing body, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body, is or is to be a party, including the value of the contract, the identity of every other party to the contract and the purpose of the contract.
5. Decisions of the elected local policing body
6. Policies of the elected local policing body
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:-
- a strategy for the reduction of crime and disorder in the area (including anti-social and other behaviour adversely affecting the local environment),
- a strategy for combatting the misuse of drugs, alcohol and other substances in the area,
- a strategy for the reduction of re-offending in the area and
- 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—
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—
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—
(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.
(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.