Issue - meetings

The Panel was asked to consider and comment on the Consultation on Proposals for National Representation. The views of the Panel would be fed back to the Chairman of Hertfordshire PCP who was co-ordinating a response on behalf of all Police and Crime Panels.

The paper set out three options for consideration: an Association, a Special Interest Group or a Combination of the first two options.

The plan was to seek the views of Police and Crime Panels and issue a revised document in mid-October to inform a discussion and agreement on the way forward at the National Conference on 6 November 2017.

The Panel agreed that it supported the principle of forming a national group.  Members of the Panel referred to the PCCs having their own organisation and that it would be appropriate for the Panels charged with scrutiny of the PCC's to have a collective voice too.

Of the options set out in the Consultation paper, the Panel considered that the Special Interest Group within the LGA would be the most appropriate.  All authorities represented on the Panel were all members of the LGA.