To:
All Chairs of Police Authorities
All Chief Executives
of Police Authorities
APA
Board
All Treasurers of
Police Authorities
APA Communicators
Network
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APA
News
Issue 151: Friday 17 July
2009
An
APA news update for police authorities
PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS
NEWSLETTER TO MEMBERS AND STAFF OF YOUR POLICE
AUTHORITY
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This
week:
[1] Police
Accountability report
[2] Chief Officer pay
and remuneration
[3] Annual Crime
statistics
[4] APA Annual
Conference 2009
[5] APA Confidence
Conference
[6] LGA Safer
Communities conference
[7] Article on crime
mapping
[8] Police funding in
[9] APA
consultations
[10] Newsletters and
updates
[11] Gems this
week
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[1] POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY
REPORT
Former
Home Secretary David Blunkett launched his
‘A
People's Police Force: Police Accountability in the Modern
Era’
- a
proposal for a renewed and revitalised structure for police answerability direct
to the public.
*attached:
A People’s Police
Force
The APA issued a news
release welcoming the report including the recommendation that direct elections
to police authorities is dropped.
*attached: Call to drop direct elections
welcomed
ACPO also released a
response to the report.
*attached: ACPO Blunkett
comment
The Today programme on Radio
4 also covered the story and gave high profile to the report’s positive
recommendations about police authorities.
*link (report at
00:38): Today
programme 16/7/9
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[2] CHIEF OFFICER PAY AND REMUNERATION
APA Chair, Bob Jones, and
Ann Barnes, Chair of the APA People Policy Network, have sent a letter to police
authorities regarding chief officer pay and remuneration. The letter was
discussed during the APA Council meeting this week, and received the support of
Council members.
*attached: Chief Officer Pay Packages – July
09
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[3] ANNUAL CRIME
STATISTICS
The Annual Crime Statistics
were released by the Office of National Statistics.
*link: crime statistics
2008/9
The APA issued briefing to
police authorities and a news release to welcome the increase in public
confidence.
*attached: APA Welcomes increase in public
confidence
The Home Secretary later
released a letter to highlight his interest in public confidence and to
highlight the excellent progress that he feels is being
made.
*attached: letter on confidence
progress
The Today programme also
covered this issue in a report, including an interview with Gulshan Kayembe, the
Chair of Norfolk Police Authority. The report highlighted the difficult
issues facing authorities and forces in increasing public confidence in
policing.
*link (report at
01:33): Today
programme 16/7/9
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[4] APA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
2009
The APA Annual Conference
2009 will take place in
We look forward to providing
police authorities with further details on the conference programme in due
course, including details of website booking – a facility which was successfully
introduced for the first time last year.
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[5] APA CONFIDENCE
CONFERENCE
The APA is working with
Connect Public Affairs to organise a conference on `Restoring Public Confidence`
on Wednesday 9 September at the Royal Geographical Society in
*link: Restoring public
confidence agenda
The Keynote speech will be
given by the Policing Minister David Hanson. Other speakers will
include:
- Chris Grayling MP, Shadow
Home Secretary
- Martin
Davis, Head of Engagement and
Partnerships, MPA
- Steve
Mortimer, Programme Director Citizen
Focus and Neighbourhood Policing, NPIA
-
- Mike
Ainsworth, Office of Criminal Justice
Reform
- Cllr Richard
Kemp, Deputy Chairman, Local
Government Association
The APA hopes the event will
bring together criminal justice and community safety agencies to debate
what can be done
to improve public
accountability, drive up confidence and deliver genuine improvements in public
perceptions.
We would be very grateful if
police authorities were able to forward the conference information to local
partners such as forces, local councils, CDRPs and
LCJBs.
Registration is available
on-line, or by calling Connect Public Affairs on 020 7592 9490. We look
forward to seeing you there.
*link: APA Restoring
Public Confidence registration
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[6] LGA SAFER COMMUNITIES
CONFERENCE
Police authorities have been
invited to attend the Local Government Association’s Safer Communities
Conference and Exhibition, on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 October, at the
Marriott City Centre,
*link: LGA Conference
Programme
This
year’s conference will hear from a number of key safer communities’
professionals including ministerial sessions from the likes of Alan Campbell MP,
Chris Huhne MP, Chris Grayling MP and other representatives from local
government and the private and third sector including Ben Page, Irene Lucas and
Julie Spence.
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[7] ARTICLE ON CRIME
MAPPING
Fraser Sampson, Chief
Executive of West Yorkshire Police Authority, and Fiona Kinnear,
Research Director at the Authority have written a report ‘Plotting Crimes; Too
True to Be Good? ‘The Rationale and Risks behind Crime Mapping in the
*attached: Plotting Crimes: too true to be
good
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[8] POLICE FUNDING IN
Oral questions on police
funding to the Secretary of State for
*attached: Oral Questions to the Secretary of State
for
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[9] APA
CONSULTATIONS
Police authorities will wish
to note the following ongoing consultations and their closing dates for
responses to the APA.
- 20 July: Engaging
Communities in Criminal Justice consultation
- 24 July: Keeping the
Right People on the DNA Database consultation
- 11 August:
Policing of Public
Protest consultation
- 18 September:
Government Equality Bill Consultation
- 23 September: IPCC
Statutory Guidance consultation
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[10] NEWSLETTERS AND
UPDATES
The CJS has circulated the
July edition of Lowdown.
This month they have focused
on:
- Community
Cashback
- Engaging Communities
in the Criminal Justice Green Paper
- Justice
Awards
- Inside Justice
Week.
*attached: Lowdown July
09
Bulletin 56 from the Home
Office Olympic Security Directorate is now
available.
*attached: Safety, Security & Resilience Planning
Update - bulletin 56
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[11] GEMS THIS WEEK
The APA has sent 11 Global
Emails (Gems) to police authorities this week.
- Gem
202 Restoring Public Confidence
Conference
- Gem
203 Authority and force
compliance with FOI Publication Schemes
- Gem
204 Police Authority Inspection
Framework
- Gem
205 New Serious Organised Crime
Strategy
- Gem
206 Strategic Growth
Toolkit: APA consultation
- Gem
207 Police Accountability
Review
- Gem
208 IPCC statistics on deaths
during or following police contact
- Gem
209 Annual Crime Statistics
2008/9
- Gem
210 APA welcomes call to drop
direct elections
- Gem
211 'Adapting to Protest' HMIC
Report Briefing and Consultation
- Gem
212 IPCC Statutory Guidance
Consultation
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