Agenda and minutes
Venue: MS Teams meeting
Contact: Jamie Sheldon Email: jamie.sheldon@plymouth.gov.uk
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To sign and confirm as a correct record the minutes of the meeting held on 3 July 2020. Additional documents: Minutes: The Chair proposed the minutes of 3 July 2020 to the panel for approval; this was seconded by Councillor Haydon.
Councillor Peterman requested that the minutes reflect his attendance at the meeting of 3 July 2020 and Councillor Croad requested that his apologies were recorded in the minutes as they were submitted.
Under this item Councillor Derrick raised that issues discussed at the previous meeting regarding the draft annual report had not been included, specifically regarding Police Community Support Officer numbers and data on violent crime in the form of a graph/ trends.
The minutes were agreed as a true and accurate record of the meeting. |
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Declarations of Interest Members will be asked to make any declaration of interest in respect of items on this agenda. Additional documents: Minutes: There were no declarations of interest made by members. |
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Public Questions To receive questions from (and provide answers to) members of the public that are relevant to the panel’s functions.
Questions should be no longer than 100 words and sent to Democratic Support, Plymouth City Council, Floor 3, Ballard House, West Hoe Road, Plymouth, PL1 3BJ or democratic.support@plymouth.gov.uk
Questions must be received at least 5 complete working days before the meeting. Additional documents: Minutes: The Chair advised the Panel that no public questions had been received. |
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Additional documents: Minutes: Alison Hernandez, Police and Crime Commissioner, introduced the report on the 101 Deep Dive scrutiny.
Members were advised that the review would commence in October, would be reported in December 2020 and would focus on the following three key areas: defining and setting customer service standards; understanding and assessing the delivery services to the public; and continuous learning and development within the contact service. The OPCC would convene a bespoke OPCC Panel which would include existing scrutiny panel volunteers and councillor advocates, supported by task and finish activity led by the OPCC. The OPCC Panel’s work would be informed by focus groups, analysis of complaints and correspondence into OPCC and Force and public surveys.
The Police and Crime Commissioner highlighted the following key points:
The Panel discussed:
The Police and Crime Commissioner clarified that –
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Commissioner's Update Report PDF 292 KB Additional documents: Minutes: Alison Hernandez, Police and Crime Commissioner, introduced the Commissioner’s Update report ‘as read’ and highlighted:
The Panel discussed:
The Police and Crime Chief Commissioner clarified:
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Additional documents: Minutes: Alison Hernandez, Police and Crime Commissioner, introduced the report on Continuing to Deliver an Effective Policing and Crime Service to the Public Throughout Covid 19.
The following key points were highlighted:
The Panel discussed –
The Police and Crime Chief Commissioner clarified:
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Impact of Covid on Criminal Justice Processes (verbal) Additional documents: Minutes: Alison Hernandez, Police and Crime Commissioner, introduced the Impact of Covid on Criminal Justice Processes update.
It was highlighted that the Criminal Justice Board had no powers as it was a group of people trying improve locally, the Criminal Justice system. As it was not a statutory partnership the government did not recognise the Criminal Justice Board as an emergency response provider during the Covid crisis. Therefore the Local Criminal Justice Board did not have any say in what could be done to help.
The Government have been trying to improve this and PCC’s have been having weekly and fortnightly meetings with Ministers. Issues were experienced with the lack of access to information which should be transparent. In terms of probation, the organisation had been working from home, when prisoners were released on license they were not having face to face meetings. Work was ongoing to try to help partners improve the service. The Commissioner had gone to the Judiciary to help establish identified locations for Nightingale courts and two locations had been found in Cornwall. Nightingales court created so other civil business can be moved out so criminal cases can be dealt with more securely.
The Panel discussed:
The Police and Crime Chief Commissioner clarified:
Councillor Biederman proposed and Councillor Atherfold seconded to note the report. |
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Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner's Performance Report PDF 203 KB Additional documents:
Minutes: Alison Hernandez, Police and Crime Commissioner, introduced the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner’s Performance report and highlighted that the data was correct up to March 2020.
The Panel discussed:
The Police and Crime Commissioner clarified:
It was proposed by Councillor Atherfold and seconded by Councillor Hackett to note the report. |
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Devon and Cornwall Police and Crime Panel - Complaints against the PCC PDF 143 KB Additional documents: Minutes: The Chair introduced the Complaints Against the Police and Crime Commissioner report and informed the Panel to note that a complaint was received when the Panel last met – the Panel now had the opportunity to discuss that complaint as it had been concluded.
Fran Hughes advised the Panel that the IOPC had reviewed the complaint and it was decided that there was nothing unlawful in the Commissioner’s conduct and that the Chair and Fran would have a discussion the next steps to be taken prior to the next meeting.
It was proposed by Councillor Biederman and seconded by Councillor Atherfold to note the update. |
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Work Programme (to follow) Additional documents: Minutes: Panel Members discussed the draft work programme and raised the following items for inclusion:
Members were asked to contact Jamie Sheldon to prioritise items with a deadline of 2 October 2020. |