Committees
The Authority conducts its business through a number of committees which ultimately feed into the main Police Authority meetings.
To view a list of previous and forthcoming meetings for each committee, please click through to further details below. To view a complete list of Full Police Authority Meetings click here
The committees that report directly to the Police Authority are:
- Citizen Focus Committee
The purpose of this committee is to maintain and overview of the progress and development of Citizen Focused Policing with the Constabulary, ensuring that the Authority's accountability and governance roles are fully discharged, and to ensure the Authority's own statutory responsibilities with regard to community engagement are maintained and developed.
read more about Citizen Focus Committee- Custody Visitors Committee
The purpose of this committee is to exercise the Police Authority's duties in overseeing the maintenance and operation of an efficient and effective custody visiting scheme including keeping such arrangements under review, and to be apprised of stategic developments relating to the custody environment.
read more about Custody Visitors Committee- Scrutiny and Audit Committee
The purpose of this Committee is to keep under continual review the Authority's audit, governance and risk management arrangements, the achievement of value for money, and the delivery of the Authority's targets for policing. This will be achieved by receiving monitoring reports in respect of all the Committee's responsibilities, assurance statements from the Authority's internal and external auditors on the audit plans and the adequacy of existing audit arrangements, reports on risk management embedment and the corporate risk register, and information on actual performance against value for money and policing targets.
read more about Scrutiny and Audit Committee- Professional Standards & HR Committee
The purpose of this committee is to exercise the Police Authority's powers and duties in respect of Professional Standards and HR matters and to hold the Constabulary to account for the discharge of its responsibilities, thus helping to ensure the maintenance of an efficient and effective police force overall. This will be achieved by instigating procedures designed to monitor and scrutinise existing or planned policies, practices and performance of the Force, both at a corporate and local level.
read more about Professional Standards & HR Committee- Property and ICT Committee
This committee considers issues relating to the police estate and the development of computer and communication systems.
read more about Property and ICT Committee- Ethical Standards Committee
This committee provides advice to the Authority on standards for conduct for its Members to ensure that its business is carried out to the highest possible ethical standards.
The Committees membership includes 2 lay Independent Members - Stephen Revell and Bridgid Everitt - one of which must be the Chair of the Committee.
read more about Ethical Standards Committee
