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Detection of Crime - Overview and Scrutiny Topic Proposal Report
Meeting: 11/07/2011 - Overview and Scrutiny Board (Item 18)
18 Detection of Crime - Overview and Scrutiny Topic Proposal Report 
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Officers informed Members that the topic proposal on the Detection of Crime in Hagley had been put forward by Councillor S. R. Colella. The Board was informed that although under the Police and Justice Act 2006 scrutiny committees were given powers to scrutinise Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs), it should be noted that the powers were to look at the work of the partnership as a whole, rather than a power to scrutinise individual partners or an area which was likely to concentrate on one partner. Councillor Colella’s proposal referred specifically to the detection of burglaries and this was the sole responsibility of the Police. Therefore, the topic proposal form as it currently stood was not appropriate for consideration as a scrutiny exercise under the Overview and Scrutiny Board’s responsibility for the scrutiny of CSPs.
The Board discussed the topical proposal in further detail and it was
RESOLVED that a letter be sent to the local Police Inspector requesting further information and his attendance at the meeting of the Overview and Scrutiny Board to be held on 19th September 2011 before deciding whether or not further investigation was required.