‘Eeek,…..the PCC monster with..... all new governance arrangements!’

PCC – A New Governance Model?

New governance models Hoops? Are you mad? Yes, I am!

‘Stuff’ that’s informed my thinking:

• The Committee system will be swept away in November (save for audit).

• An opportunity exists here to transform accountability & oversight of policing.

PCC – A New Governance Model?

‘Stuff’ that’s informed my thinking on new governance (cont’d)

• The PCC could/should also act as a bridge or facilitator to the public holding the police to account.

• Have assumed the force will be sensitive, maybe even hostile, to new forms of being held to account, oversight, scrutiny.

• The signs are mine will be – they don’t like it up ‘em!

• Force will also be resistant to new PCC governance that might impose burdens on them – money, time, bureaucracy.

PCC – A New Governance Model?

‘Stuff’ that’s informed my thinking on new governance (cont’d)

• Force may view any new forms of accountability as more about the PCC demonstrating, even ‘showing-off’, to the electorate they are doing their job, than it is genuine governance of them.

PCC – A New Governance Model?

‘Things’ shaping new thinking on new governance (cont’d) Anything presented to an in-coming PCC must be options

only, not a fait accompli.

Am aware that some options/new governance may not be personally

or politically palatable.

Will these ideas pass the ‘Bob Jones test’?

PCC – A New Governance Model?

Other Risks/Dangers to this Work

Preoccupation with schemes of delegation, /consent. Is that ‘new’ accountability? Hmm..

Is the PCC just a ‘new committee’ of one? I didn’t think that was what the reforms were about.

The ghost of the police authority lives on!

PCC – A New Governance Model?

Things/Influences Shaping My Ideas for New PCC Governance

Oversight, scrutiny and decision-making by the PCC will be faster and more dynamic.

There’s only the PCC (& maybe a deputy).

Meeting the new openness & transparency agenda. Big stuff.

Connecting the police to the public;the public to the police.

PCC – A New Governance Model?

Things/Influences Shaping My Ideas for New PCC Governance

That probably the best starting point is to:

1) Identify the ‘WHAT’ things – what issues, topics and areas does a PCC wish to scrutinise, have oversight of & hold to account the force on e.g. crime performance, quality of service.

AND

2) To create ‘HOW’ options – how the PCC might want to do that scrutiny, oversight, etc

PCC – A New Governance Model?

Things/Influences Shaping My Ideas for New PCC Governance

This lends itself to a……….matrix, baby.

PCC – A New Governance Model?

New PCC Governance – What It Could Look Like?

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

1. The Inquiry-Style Approach

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

2. Citizens’ Juries

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

3. 90-day Scrutinies (Quasi-Inspection?)

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

4. Data/Information Disclosure (as a deliberate lever to secure accountability)

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

5. Using the media to hold the force to account

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

6. For PCC oversight of specific police operations?

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

7. PCC system of PQs/PMQs.

Not just correspondence between PCC, the public and the force, but a special type of laying down of a question & answer facilitated by the PCC.

PCC – A New Governance Model?

PCC Governance OPTIONS?

8. Oh yes,….. and an old fashioned one-to-one with the Chief!

……but maybe some of it Podcast?

PCC – A New Governance Model?

Got any better ideas for governance by a PCC?