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Protective Services includes the following operational areas: Civil
Contingencies; Counter terrorism; critical Incidents; Domestic Extremism;
Firearms; Major Crime; Organised Crime; Protecting Vulnerable People; Public
Order; Roads Policing
Related Police Service Departments:
Crime, Operations
Links to Strategic Plan:
Priorities:
- Improving Public Confidence
- Ensuring Improved Policing for the Future
- Listening and Responding to Communities
- Achieving Value for Money
Actions:
- Effective performance and scrutiny, support and challenge
- Understanding our communities and working with partners to ensure delivery of
continuously improving police services
- Focussing on Value For Money in reassuring an efficient and effective police
service
Cross-Cutting Issues
- To ensure, in respect of the Committee’s terms of reference, work and activities
that full and proper consideration is given to the implications and / or
relevance of matters impacting upon the Authority’s duty to promote equality and
diversity.
- To ensure, in respect of the Authority’s work and activities that full and
proper consideration is given to the implications and / or relevance of
decisions in respect of Human Rights legislation
- To have oversight and scrutiny of entries on the Police Authority’s risk
register pertaining to the work of the committee and to make recommendations
regarding such entries to the Police Authority’s Chief Executive.
- To scrutinise the performance of the police service on matters relating to
topics within the committee’s remit, using information from a variety of sources
including local performance indicators, consultation and community engagement
findings, audit and inspection reports and benchmarking data.
- To challenge weak performance and monitor action plans for securing improvements
or building on strengths on matters relating to topics within the committee’s
remit
- To ensure, in respect of the Committee’s work, activities and decisions, that
full and proper consideration is given to environmental impact and
sustainability.
- To ensure, in respect of the Committee’s work, activities and decisions, that
full and proper consideration is given to obtaining and delivering value for
money.
Oversight and Scrutiny of Protective Services
- To provide effective oversight of the protective services provision, performance
and resilience for existing and developing threats and risks.
- To ensure that communities in the Authority’s area are kept aware, as
appropriate, of information and activity relating to counter-terrorism.
- to ensure that the Authority complies with its duties relating to children and
young people arising from the Children Act 2004
Responding to consultation documents from outside bodies on matters that fall
within the Committee’s remit.