(a)

there was concern about how the CRC would be held to account and whilst the PCC had reasonable access to data held he didn’t have a right of access.  The Ministry of Justice had promised access to data and it was the PCC’s intention, either through his team or through the local Criminal Justice Board (of which he was a member), to develop a mechanism by which the CRC could be held to account;

(b)

the Chief Constable had been asked to report to the PCC by the end of the summer on how he plans to deal with cyber enabled or delivered threats, particularly given the acknowledged insufficient local capability to address the growing risk;

(c)

an action plan was now in place to address the problems encountered with the 101 service, including the addition of an extra 30 staff to cover the two call centres, and the PCC was confident that the situation would improve over the coming year;

(d)

three different performance reports had been produced as a result of the HMIC CSE report, all of which had focussed on police services and systems rather than across all of the agencies involved –

(i)

the first report had highlighted issues around police systems and the covert data systems that weren’t shared.  It was hoped that the development and rolling out of MASH across Devon would address some of those issues; 

(ii)

the second report had focussed on online CSE with a headline message that police services were not cognisant of CSE or well equipped in terms of capacity or capability.  The report’s recommendations echoed what the PCC had put to the Chief Constable and reflected the need to develop expertise in front-line delivery;

(iii)

the third report, which was around child protection, highlighted a number of areas of failure.  Devon and Cornwall Police had done a ‘deep-dive’ exercise into child protection and the way in which the force was addressing the issue.  Whist there were some areas of concern, there was also some confidence that the force was aware of those challenges and was dealing with them.

The PCC had asked the Chief Constable to prepare a report responding to all of the recommendations contained in the three reports, a copy of which would be shared with the Panel.  Once the Chief Constable’s response had been received, the PCC offered to bring to a future meeting a Safeguarding MACSE/MASH presentation detailing the safeguarding mechanisms across Devon and Cornwall.

(1)

the draft report as a final version in respect of its comments and recommendations to the Police and Crime Commissioner;

(2)

the PCC’s response to the draft final report and notes progress made in addressing those recommendations;

(3)

that due regard has been given to the comments and recommendations made by the Police and Crime Panel and that they have been incorporated in the final refresh of the Police and Crime Plan;

(4)

the suggested items for inclusion in the panel’s work programme as follows –

·         report on findings of the work being explored with Exeter in respect of improved data exchange between the Police and Health regarding Domestic Abuse/Domestic Violence – to be scheduled for consideration in the Autumn/Winter;

·         report defining neighbourhood policing in terms of function and resourcing that aims to better protect this foundation service to the public and source of intelligence - to be included within ‘Transformation’ item scheduled for October 2015;

·         a report on the Chief Constable’s response to the recommendations arising from the HMIC’s report on CSE;

·         Safeguarding MACSE/MASH presentation.