The Police Authority (Community Engagement and Membership) Regulations 2010
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2010/421 |
2010 No. 421
Police, England And Wales
The Police Authority (Community Engagement and Membership) Regulations 2010
Made 22th February 2010
Laid before Parliament 24th February 2010
Coming into force 17th March 2010
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 96 of, paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 2 to, and paragraphs 1 and 3(2) of Schedule 2A to the Police Act 19961, makes the following Regulation.
In accordance with section 96(8) of, paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to, and paragraph 6 of Schedule 2A to that Act, the Secretary of State has consulted with the Association of Police Authorities, the Association of Chief Police Officers, persons whom he considers to represent the interests of county and district councils in England and county and county borough councils in Wales, the Metropolitan Police Authority, the Greater London Authority, persons whom he considers to represent the interests of London Boroughs, and such other persons as he saw fit.
Citation, commencement, interpretation and application
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Police Authority (Community Engagement and Membership) Regulations 2010 and shall come into force on 17 March 2010.
(2) In these Regulations—
(a)
(a) “the Police Authority Regulations” means the Police Authority Regulations 20082;
(b)
(b) “the Metropolitan Police Authority Regulations” means the Metropolitan Police Authority Regulations 20083.
(3) Regulations 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16 shall not apply to the appointment of a member of a police authority where a selection panel began to exercise its functions under the Police Authority Regulations or the Metropolitan Police Authority Regulations in relation to that appointment before 17 March 2010.
Arrangements for obtaining the views of the community on policing
2. In making or reviewing arrangements for obtaining the views of people in its police area about matters concerning the policing of the area, each police authority shall have particular regard—
(a) to the need to ensure that it obtains the views of a wide range of people, including—
(i) people who are aged under 21 or over 65;
(ii) people who belong to the business and voluntary sectors in the area (whether or not they live in the area);
(iii) people from diverse backgrounds and sectors of society, including those of disadvantaged socio-economic status and from groups which are perceived by the authority as hard to reach;
(b) to the need to ensure that it obtains a sufficient number and range of views to avoid it acting on the basis of an unduly limited or unrepresentative sample;
(c) to the need to ensure that it obtains the views of the people in its area sufficiently often that it is continually aware of such views, so far as this is reasonably practicable;
(d) to the need to ensure that the public are offered a range of different routes, including in appropriate cases meetings with the police authority and with senior officers of the police force, by which to communicate their views to the police authority;
(e) to the need to avoid unnecessary duplication with comparable arrangements made by police forces, local authorities, crime and disorder reduction partnerships, community safety partnerships and local criminal justice boards;
(f) to the need to ensure that the public are given the opportunity to comment on issues which, judging by the number and nature of complaints received by the police force or police authority, are matters of particular local concern.
3. A police authority making or reviewing arrangements as mentioned in regulation 2 shall have particular regard to the need to obtain views on—
(a) whether people in the area consider that the authority gives due regard to their views in discharging its functions;
(b) whether people in the area consider that the police force is fulfilling its role in tackling the crime and anti-social behaviour issues that matter to them;
(c) whether people in the area consider that the police force is providing a good service to the public;
(d) whether people in the area consider that community support officers have appropriate powers to deal with local concerns, within the range of powers available under Part 4 of the Police Reform Act 20024.
Amendment to the Police Authority Regulations
4. For regulation 8 of the Police Authority Regulations (appointment of members by relevant councils) substitute—
“8. Subject to regulation 8A, a relevant council or joint committee shall exercise its power to appoint members of a police authority under regulation 6(1)(a) or 6(2)(a) so as to ensure that, so far as reasonably practicable—
(a) where—
(i) a person has been returned at an election as the elected mayor of a relevant council under Part 2 of the Local Government Act 20005;
(ii) both that person and the council indicate that they wish the person to be appointed as a member of the police authority in relation to which the council is the relevant council,
that person is so appointed, and
(b) in the case of the remaining members for whose appointments it is responsible, the proportion (taking into account any appointment under sub-paragraph (a)) who are members of any given party—
(i) where it is a council that is responsible for their appointment, is the same as the proportion of the members of the council who are members of that party; and
(ii) where it is a joint committee that is so responsible, is the same as the proportion of the members of the relevant councils taken as a whole who are members of that party.”.
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