Home Affairs - Seventh Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 30 October 2008.
Contents
Terms of Reference
Key facts
Summary
1 Introduction
Outline of the Committee's inquiry
Background to the Committee's inquiry
2 Expectations of the police
The role of the police in the 21st century
Home Office expectations of the police
"Hitting the target but missing
the point"
The new focus on serious crime
Towards greater discretion
The absence of fraud from performance targets
Public expectations of the police
Public encounters with the police
Police visibility
3 Pressures on resources
Policing funding arrangements
Immigration
Use of population data in the police
funding formula
Immigrants as criminals and as victims
Additional costs in policing immigrant communities
Solutions
Alcohol-related crime
Scale of alcohol-related crime and disorder
and impact on resources
Police powers to tackle alcohol-related crime
and disorder
Responsible trading
Bail
Fitness of current legislation
Electronic tagging as a condition of bail
Gun and knife crime
The Government's approach to gun and knife
crime
4 Releasing resources
Stop and account
Technology
Use of personal digital assistants to
increase effectiveness
Adopting common solutions
Difficulties experienced by the British Transport
Police in accessing new technology
Collaboration
Use of police staff
5 Structures
Accountability structures
Options for reform
Neighbourhood policing
Setting neighbourhood priorities
Using intelligence gathered through neighbourhood
policing
Resources for neighbourhood policing
Regional policing
The gap in delivering protective services
Resources for protective services
The proposal for force mergers
London 2012
Security planning for the Games
Potential problems with the Airwave radio
network
6 Workforce
Recruitment
Retention
Appointment of chief officers
Police Community Support Officers
Diversity
Black and minority ethnic officers
Conclusions and recommendations
Formal Minutes
Witnesses
List of written evidence
List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament
Oral and Written Evidence to follow
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 364-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HL 364-II)
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