Issue - items at meetings - The Crime and Disorder Protocol

Issue - meetings

The Crime and Disorder Protocol

 

 

Meeting: 05/10/2010 - Joint Overview and Scrutiny Board (Item 26)

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Minutes:

The Scrutiny Officer introduced a report which presented the draft Crime and Disorder Scrutiny Protocol.  He explained that section 19-21 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 had introduced a requirement for Councils to put in place procedures for the scrutiny of crime and disorder partnerships and a designated crime and disorder scrutiny committee.  In Bromsgrove, the Joint Overview and Scrutiny Board (JOSB) had been designated as the crime and disorder scrutiny committee in the Council Constitution. 

 

The Home Office guidance for the scrutiny of crime and disorder suggested that local authorities should “consider developing a short, flexible and meaningful protocol which lays the mutual expectations of scrutiny members and partners of the community safety members and partnerships”. 

 

The draft Protocol set out guidance to the Board and to the Bromsgrove Community Safety Partnership (CSP) on how the scrutiny of crime and disorder partnerships would operate, including the processes for setting the work programme, requesting information from partners, calling witnesses from partner agencies, making reports and recommendations to partners, the Executive Response from partners to the Board and monitoring implementation of agreed recommendations. 

 

The Chairman of the Bromsgrove CSP welcomed the Protocol and confirmed that it would be brought for consideration by the CSP at its next available meeting. 

 

RESOLVED:

(a) that the requirements and role for the scrutiny of crime and disorder be noted,

(b)   that the Scrutiny of Crime and Disorder Protocol be agreed, and

(c)   that the protocol be submitted to the Community Safety Partnership for formal agreement.