Annex A
POLICE REFORM
PROGRAMME—GOVERNANCE
Police Modernisation Group
Development of the police reform programme is
overseen by the Police Modernisation Group (PMG) chaired by Hazel
Blears, which meets every two months. Membership includes representatives
from ACPO, APA, MPS, the Police Federation, Superintendents Association,
UNISON, HMIC, PSU and Home Office policing policy officials, NBPA,
Scarman Trust and the Racial Equality Advisory Panel.
PMG's terms of reference are as follows:
To oversee and drive through the implementation
of police reform to reduce crime and increase public confidence.
This role will include:
— Providing a strategic approach for
the implementation of police reform based on Policing a New
Century: A Blueprint for Reform and shaping the second wave
of police reform focussing on civil renewal and community engagement.
— To set priorities for the programme
to ensure the greatest impact on tackling criminality, fear of
crime and anti-social behaviour in every community.
— Ensuring resources are made available
to deliver the programme—focusing on the priorities.
— Providing a coherent approach by
ensuring the appropriate connections between the individual reform
programme elements and other policy and operational activities
that support the programme's aims, including serious and organised
crime.
Police Modernisation Co-ordination Group
Below PMG, the reform programme is overseen
by a tripartite group, chaired by Stephen Rimmer, Director of
Policing Policy at the Home Office, known as the Police Modernisation
Co-ordination Group (PMCG).
PMCG, which meets on a bi-weekly basis, aims
to provide a challenging and trusted forum that inspires project
managers across the whole reform agenda to achieve their objectives
and further develop the reform agenda. PMCG membership involves
representatives from ACPO, APA, MPS, HMIC and the Home Office
with particular project leaders attending as required. PMCG oversees
an overall programme with some 50 individual projects grouped
under the broad headings of citizen focus policing; accountability;
operational effectiveness and modernising the police workforce.
PMCG's terms of reference are as follows:
— To provide oversight of the overall
Police Reform Programme and to ensure coherence between phases
1 and 2.
— To scrutinise individual programmes/projects
not progressing to plan and drive progress where possible.
— To provide a suitable forum for discussing
emerging proposals.
— To help shape the business of the
Police Modernisation Group chaired by the Home Office Policing
Minister.
— To consider effective communications
about the programme and a means of dissemination throughout the
stakeholder organisations.
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