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Your Choice: Police and Crime Commissioners

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Presentation Aim

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• What is a Police &Crime

Commissioner?

• What is a Police and Crime Panel?
• When is the election?
• Who can vote?

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The Background

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• Police & Crime Commissioners were

introduced by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, which came into force

• n September 15, 2011

The act puts an emphasis on reforming the police service

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Police & Crime Commissioner Role – Cutting Crime

Work with partners to cut crime and further improve community safety

• Commissioner can award police and crime grants to
• rganisations who will support their community safety

priorities

• Publish a Police and Crime Plan
• Set local police and crime objectives
• Engage with the community
• Hold the Chief Constable to account (hire and, if

necessary, dismiss)

• Set the policing part of council tax (precept)

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PCC Role – Public facing

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• Commissioners will be directly elected by you, the public.

They will engage with victims and the public

• Commissioners can build local partnerships
• A key responsibility of the Commissioner will be to report

to the public on how their money is being used and the

• utcomes achieved
• A Commissioner is not a replacement for the Chief

Constable, who will remain responsible for his officers and staff

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Your Choice: save the date

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• Your chance to vote on November 15, 2012
• Commissioners are elected every four years
• 41 commissioners will be elected across England and
• Wales. One will serve Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• The Commissioner will take up post on 22nd November

when police authorities will be abolished

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Who can vote?

You are eligible to vote if you:

• Are 18 or older on November 15
• Live in Cambridgeshire or

Peterborough

• Are registered to vote

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The Elections

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• The supplementary voting system has been chosen for

these elections

• Further details about the election process can be

found on the Electoral Commission, the Home Office & the Police Authority websites

• The elections will be paid for by the Home Office

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The Police and Crime Panel

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Every commissioner will be held to account by the public via the ballot box. They will also be held to account for their performance by a Police and Crime Panel.

• Panels will comprise one elected representative (councillors and,

where relevant, elected mayors) from each local authority within the force area and two independent members or co-optees

• In Cambridgeshire details on the make up of the Panel is being

finalised for June. This work is being progressed by Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough Unitary Authority

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The Police and Crime Panel Role

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The Panel will have these powers:

• Veto the Commissioner’s decision on council tax

precept

• Request further information from the Commissioner to

hold him/ her to account for performance

• Call the Commissioner & Chief Constable to public

hearings

• To publicly review the Police and Crime Plan and

annual report

• Not a replacement for police authorities

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The future under commissioners

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• Greater level of accountability to members of

the public

• Greater flexibility in commissioning services to

meet local priorities

• Greater level of accountability to the public

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The future under commissioners

• Maintain local police performance
• Deliver policing within the available

budget

• Reduce crime and disorder
• Keeping people safe
• Maintain the resilience of ‘protective

services’

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QUESTIONS?