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Police and Crime Panel

Meeting: 10/07/2012 - Council (Item 65)

65 Police and Crime Panel - Panel Arrangements

Report of the Monitoring Officer

 

Supporting documents:

Minutes:

Cllr Richard Britton, Chairman of the Police and Crime Panel presented a report on the arrangements for the Panel.

 

Council at its meeting on 15 May 2012 was informed of the requirement placed on local authorities in each police force area by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011, to establish and maintain a Police and Crime Panel for its police force area.  Council had appointed its Councillors to the Panel which had now met for the first time.

 

The report detailed the Panel’s meeting arrangements, the terms of reference and rules of procedure. 

 

In moving the recommendations in the report presented, Councillor Richard Britton proposed the following additional recommendation:

 

4) Agrees that a submission be made to the Home Secretary for the approval of a fourth membership of the Panel for Swindon Borough Council.

 

Cllr Britton thanked John Quinton, Head of Democratic Services for all his hard work in supporting the Panel.

 

 

Resolved:

 

1.            That the Panel arrangements as circulated at Appendix 1 of the report presented be agreed and endorsed.

 

2.            That the terms of reference and rules of procedure for the Panel circulated at Appendix 2 be noted.

 

3.            To give delegated authority to the Monitoring Officer to make any appropriate consequential changes to the Council’s constitution.

 

4.            To agree that a submission be made to the Home Secretary for the approval of a fourth membership of the Panel for Swindon Borough Council.