Police and Crime Commissioners and Community Safety
Partnerships
Andy Thomas
Head of Service
Partnerships and Communities
Police and Crime CommissionerPartnership Requirements
• Recognize partnership priorities and plans in developing the Police and Crime Plan
• Engaging with communities• Transfer of funding: Community Safety Fund, Drug
Intervention Programme and Young Persons Drug Prevention Grant
• Passporting and subsequent ‘commissioning’ of funds and interventions
• PCC involvement in local governance
Community Safety Partnerships
• Changing landscape of reduced requirements- ‘Localism’
• Significant reductions in local and national funding streams
• Reduced reporting and performance monitoring• Focus on doing rather than planning• Reduction in central Government policy and guidance• Majority of funding from local authority
Community Safety PartnershipsStatutory Requirements
• Executive meeting required: No guidance on who, what or frequency
• 3 year Crime and Disorder Plan• Annual Strategic Risk and Threat Assessment• Rolling Annual Plan
PCCs and CSPs: Relationship
• PCCs not a ‘responsible authority’ under the 1998 CDA
• Mutual duty to co-operate• Due regard: Police and Crime Plan/CSP Plan• Governance and strategy: Where does the PCC fit in• Local accountability: City/County/District• PCC to ‘sign off’ mergers of CSPs• PCCs change the landscape
Making it work locally
• PCCs will have a big impact on community safety• Commissioning could replace partnership working
with a free market based on competition• Local arrangements for ‘commissioning’• PCCs getting involved in local arrangements• Are local arrangements fit for purpose?
Risk/opportunity of CSP mergers• Engaging and agreeing priorities through SIA, plans
and CSF spend plans
PCCs and CSPs: The Derby Picture
• Developing effective relationships is key• Pre and Post election• Joined up Police and Crime Plan and city SIA
priorities• PCC and city council both Labour• Overview and Scrutiny Chair on Police and Crime
Panel• Agreement to passport funding in 2013-14• PCC to sit on CSP Executive Group
