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:
- Eastern Region Collaboration - Joint Statutory Committee
Norfolk Police Authority works in partnership with other police authorities in the eastern region. This work is coordinated by a joint committee.
read more about Eastern Region Collaboration - Joint Statutory Committee- Citizen Focus Committee
The purpose of this committee is to maintain an 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. To ensure the Authority's own statutory responsibilities with regard to community engagement are maintained and developed. To work in partnership with the Constabulary and other partners to ensure policing in Norfolk is Citizen Focused.
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, with particular reference to but not exclusively:
read more about Professional Standards & HR Committee- Capital Assets Committee (Formerly known as Property and ICT Committee)
This committee considers issues relating to the following capital assets:
- the Police Estate
- The computer and communication systems
- Fleet
- Uniforms
- Such other costs that fall within the Capital Programme
- Ethical Standards Committee
The purpose of this committee is to promote and maintain high standards of conduct of Members and to help Members to follow the Code of Conduct and to act as an appellate body in relation to complaints against officers of the Norfolk Police Authority.
The Committees membership includes 3 lay Independent Members - Stephen Revell, Bridgid Everitt and Richard Middleton - one of which must be the Chair of the Committee. The Chair is currently Bridgid Everitt.
read more about Ethical Standards Committee
