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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Thursday 20 January 2011

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill Committee 25-44

 

Public Bill Committee


 

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

102

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  6,  at end insert—

 

‘(1)    

The Secretary of State may put in place arrangements for pilot schemes to trial

 

directly elected policing and crime commissioners in a minimum of two police

 

areas and a maxium of four police areas under Schedule 1 to the Police Act 1996.

 

(2)    

These pilot schemes must be independently assessed as to their success in

 

strengthening policing governance and reducing governance costs after 12

 

months and the findings of such independent assessment must be laid before

 

Parliament for scrutiny.

 

(3)    

Parliament must then make recommendations to the Secretary of State as to

 

whether directly elected policing and crime commissioners should be put in place

 

in every police area in England and Wales.

 

(4)    

The Secretary of State must have regard to Parliament’s recommendations.

 

(5)    

In those areas selected to pilot schemes for directly elected policing and crime

 

commissioners, the following arrangements shall be put in place.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

103

 

Clause  1,  page  1,  line  7,  leave out from ‘each’ to end of line 8 and insert ‘police

 

area selected for pilot schemes in accordance with subsection (1).’.


 
 

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, continued

 
 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

104

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  32,  leave out subsection (9).

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

105

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  34,  at end add ‘in those areas selected to pilot schemes for

 

directly elected policing and crime commissioners in accordance with subsection (1).’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

106

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(h)    

the exercise of duties imposed on the chief constable by the Human

 

Rights Act 1998.

 

(i)    

the exercise of duties imposed on the chief constable by the Children Act

 

2004.

 

(8A)    

The police and crime commissioner has a duty to promote diversity and is subject

 

to the duties placed on public bodies under the Race Relations Act 1976, the Race

 

Relations (Amendment) Act 2000, the Disability Discrimination Act 2005, the

 

Equality Act 2006 and the Equality Act 2010.

 

(8B)    

Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary may inspect the effectiveness of the

 

police and crime commissioner in carrying out the functions conferred by this

 

Act.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

107

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  1,  leave out subsection (5) and insert—

 

‘(5)    

A police and crime commissioner will sit as chair of the police and crime panel.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

108

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  6,  leave out subsections (6) to (9).

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

109

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  9,  at end insert—


 
 

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, continued

 
 

‘(7)    

The police and crime commissioner for a police area must arrange public

 

meetings on a  quarterly basis in each and all of the police neighbourhoods in that

 

police area.

 

(8)    

The police and crime commissioner must also make arrangements to meet

 

regularly with victims of crime and with representatives of victims of crime.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

110

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  14,  leave out ‘in particular’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

111

 

Clause  1,  page  2,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(8A)    

In discharging functions under this Act the police and crime commissioner must

 

not ask, require or encourage the chief constable to act in a manner which could—

 

(a)    

put the chief constable in breach of his attestation under oath in

 

accordance with Schedule 4 of the Police Act 1996; or

 

(b)    

conflict with the chief constable’s exercise of direction and control under

 

section 2(3).

 

(8B)    

If the chief constable reasonably believes that the police and crime commissioner

 

has asked, required or encouraged him to act in a manner that is prohibited under

 

paragraph (8A), he may notify the relevant police and crime panel.

 

(8C)    

For the avoidance of doubt, any purported direction by a police and crime

 

commissioner under section 8A has no legal effect.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

112

 

Schedule  1,  page  104,  line  8,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The police and crime commissioner in deciding which other staff to appoint

 

should publish a staffing plan:

 

(i)    

the total staffing requirement of the local policing body,

 

including all support teams for police and crime commissioner

 

and the police and crime panel;

 

(ii)    

evidence setting out the needs that this staffing structure is

 

intended to meet;

 

(iii)    

a comprehensive staffing budget including detailed job

 

descriptions for all roles at a salary of more than £30,000 per

 

annum or pro rata;

 

(iv)    

in setting out the staffing plan the police and crime commissioner

 

must have regard for the likely workload of the relevant local

 

policing body and the diversity of the communities served by

 

that body.

 

(2B)    

The staffing plan must be published alongside the Policing and Crime Plan as

 

under section (5) and the views of the community must be obtained as under

 

section (14).’.


 
 

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, continued

 
 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

113

 

Schedule  1,  page  104,  line  8,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

The Home Secretary will from time to time issue regulations for the appointment

 

of staff under Schedule 1 Section (6) Part (2).

 

(i)    

which will include a maximum budget for staffing for each

 

Authority;

 

(ii)    

which shall be agreed by affirmative resolution of both Houses

 

of Parliament.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

114

 

Schedule  1,  page  104,  line  8,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

 

(a)    

the staff of a local policing body are not deemed to leave their role when

 

the police and crime commissioner leaves office;

 

(b)    

the staff of a local policing body shall be employed under a published

 

staffing structure of the support team to the police and crime

 

commissioner which can only be varied by a decision of the police and

 

crime commissioner.

 

(c)    

changes to the support team staffing must proceed only with the approval

 

of the police and crime panel.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

115

 

Schedule  1,  page  104,  line  44,  at end insert—

 

‘(ca)    

hearing appeals against the dismissal of civilian staff by chief

 

constables.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

116

 

Schedule  8,  page  127,  line  8,  leave out ‘written representations’ and insert

 

‘representations, including representations in writing and in person,’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

117

 

Schedule  8,  page  127,  line  11,  leave out ‘written representations’ and insert

 

‘representations, including representations in writing and in person,’.


 
 

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, continued

 
 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

118

 

Schedule  8,  page  127,  leave out lines 35 and 36 and insert—

 

‘(a)    

must consult the chief inspector of the constabulary,

 

(b)    

must consult the Independent Police Complaints Commission,

 

(c)    

must hold a scrutiny hearing.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

119

 

Schedule  8,  page  128,  line  7,  leave out ‘or’ and insert ‘and’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

120

 

Schedule  8,  page  128,  line  8,  leave out ‘is, or both of them’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

121

 

Schedule  8,  page  128,  line  8,  leave out ‘requested to appear’ and insert ‘required to

 

attend in person’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

122

 

Schedule  8,  page  128,  leave out lines 11 to 16.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

123

 

Schedule  8,  page  128,  line  10,  at end insert—

 

‘(9A)    

Before a scrutiny hearing is convened, the panel must give the chief constable the

 

opportunity to make written representations to the panel about the police and

 

crime commissioner’s proposal to call for the chief constable’s resignation or

 

retirement.’.


 
 

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, continued

 
 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

124

 

Schedule  8,  page  123,  line  7,  leave out paragraph 1.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

125

 

Schedule  8,  page  123,  line  7,  at end insert—

 

‘1         

A police and crime panel must comply with this Part of this Schedule in

 

appointing a chief constable under section 38.

 

2          

A police and crime panel must not appoint a constable to be chief constable

 

until the agreement of a 75 per cent. majority of the panel has been secured.

 

3    (1)  

A police and crime panel must hold an appointment hearing before appointing

 

a chief constable.

 

      (2)  

For the purposes of this Part an “appointment hearing”, is a meeting of the

 

panel, held in public, at which the candidate is requested to appear for the

 

purposes of answering questions in relation to the appointment.

 

      (3)  

References in this part to a person appearing at a meeting of the panel are

 

references to the person—

 

(a)    

attending the meeting in person, or

 

(b)    

not attending the meeting in person but participating in the

 

proceedings at the meeting by any means that enable the person to

 

hear, and be heard in, those proceedings at the happen.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

126

 

Schedule  8,  page  123,  line  10,  leave out paragraph 2.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

127

 

Schedule  8,  page  123,  line  29,  leave out paragraph 3.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

128

 

Schedule  8,  page  124,  line  2,  leave out paragraph 4.


 
 

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Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, continued

 
 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

129

 

Schedule  8,  page  124,  line  28,  leave out paragraph 5.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

130

 

Schedule  8,  page  125,  line  1,  leave out paragraph 6.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

131

 

Schedule  8,  page  125,  line  33,  leave out ‘by paragraphs 3 to 8’ and insert

 

‘paragraphs 1 to 3’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

132

 

Schedule  8,  page  125,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

    ‘(3)  

The regulations may confer functions on—

 

(a)    

police and crime panels,

 

(b)    

the Secretary of State, or

 

(c)    

any other persons.

 

      (4)  

That includes functions involving the exercise of discretion.’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

133

 

Schedule  8,  page  125,  line  38,  leave out paragraph 10.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

134

 

Schedule  8,  page  126,  line  21,  leave out ‘commissioner’ and insert ‘panel’.

 

Vernon Coaker

 

Diana Johnson

 

Clive Efford

 

Mark Tami

 

135

 

Schedule  8,  page  126,  line  25,  leave out ‘commissioner’ and insert ‘panel’.


 
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