Agenda item

FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE 'REACTIVE SCRUTINY ITEM' OF THE POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER'S AND CHIEF CONSTABLE'S DEVON AND CORNWALL POLICE PUBLIC CONTACT STRATEGY - STATION ENQUIRY RATIONALISATION

The Panel will review, report and agree formal recommendations made to the Police and Crime Commissioner and Chief Constable in relation to the proposed Station Enquiry Rationalisation and consider the response and actions/progress from the Police and Crime Commissioner to those recommendations.

Minutes:

Further to the panel’s scrutiny of the Devon and Cornwall Police Public Contact Strategy – Station Enquiry Rationalisation - at its meeting on 17 October 2014, the Community Safety and Partnerships Manager submitted a draft report setting out the panel’s findings and recommendations, along with the Police and Crime Commissioner’s response.

 

Having considered the draft scrutiny report, together with the Police and Crime Commissioner’s response, the following points of concern were raised by the panel -

 

·        the lack of an engagement plan for Plymouth;

·        anyone living in Cornwall who was required to attend a Police Station in order to present documentation would now be expected to travel to either Bodmin or Plymouth;

·        the lack of any mechanism for feeding back progress/action taken in respect of the panel’s recommendations.

 

In response to the above, the panel was advised that -

 

(a)

 

there was no engagement plan for Plymouth as engagement plans had only been required where front desk closures were being introduced;

 

(b)

 

from the research undertaken prior to the closure of front desk offices, evidence had suggested that there had been very little to no activity relating to production of documents, therefore the impact was expected to be very limited;

 

(c)

 

an action plan would be drawn up to ensure that recommendations were cascaded down to the relevant area and implemented.

 

The panel agreed –

 

(1)

 

the draft report;

 

(2)

 

to review the Police and Crime Commissioner’s response to its findings and recommendations and consider items for inclusion into its work programme.

 

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