‘ eeek,…..the pcc monster with..... all new governance arrangements!’
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‘ Eeek,…..the PCC monster with..... all new governance arrangements!’. New governance models Hoops? Are you mad? Yes, I am! ‘Stuff’ that’s informed my thinking: The Committee system will be swept away in November (save for audit). An opportunity exists here to transform - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
‘Eeek,…..the PCC monster with..... all new governance arrangements!’
PCC – A New Governance Model?
New governance models Hoops? Are you mad? Yes, I am!
‘Stuff’ that’s informed my thinking:
• The Committee system will be swept away in November (save for audit).
• An opportunity exists here to transform accountability & oversight of policing.
PCC – A New Governance Model?
‘Stuff’ that’s informed my thinking on new governance (cont’d)
• The PCC could/should also act as a bridge or facilitator to the public holding the police to account.
• Have assumed the force will be sensitive, maybe even hostile, to new forms of being held to account, oversight, scrutiny.
• The signs are mine will be – they don’t like it up ‘em!
• Force will also be resistant to new PCC governance that might impose burdens on them – money, time, bureaucracy.
PCC – A New Governance Model?
‘Stuff’ that’s informed my thinking on new governance (cont’d)
• Force may view any new forms of accountability as more about the PCC demonstrating, even ‘showing-off’, to the electorate they are doing their job, than it is genuine governance of them.
PCC – A New Governance Model?
‘Things’ shaping new thinking on new governance (cont’d) Anything presented to an in-coming PCC must be options
only, not a fait accompli.
Am aware that some options/new governance may not be personally
or politically palatable.
Will these ideas pass the ‘Bob Jones test’?
PCC – A New Governance Model?
Other Risks/Dangers to this Work
Preoccupation with schemes of delegation, /consent. Is that ‘new’ accountability? Hmm..
Is the PCC just a ‘new committee’ of one? I didn’t think that was what the reforms were about.
The ghost of the police authority lives on!
PCC – A New Governance Model?
Things/Influences Shaping My Ideas for New PCC Governance
Oversight, scrutiny and decision-making by the PCC will be faster and more dynamic.
There’s only the PCC (& maybe a deputy).
Meeting the new openness & transparency agenda. Big stuff.
Connecting the police to the public;the public to the police.
PCC – A New Governance Model?
Things/Influences Shaping My Ideas for New PCC Governance
That probably the best starting point is to:
1) Identify the ‘WHAT’ things – what issues, topics and areas does a PCC wish to scrutinise, have oversight of & hold to account the force on e.g. crime performance, quality of service.
AND
2) To create ‘HOW’ options – how the PCC might want to do that scrutiny, oversight, etc
PCC – A New Governance Model?
Things/Influences Shaping My Ideas for New PCC Governance
This lends itself to a……….matrix, baby.
PCC – A New Governance Model?
New PCC Governance – What It Could Look Like?
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
1. The Inquiry-Style Approach
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
2. Citizens’ Juries
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
3. 90-day Scrutinies (Quasi-Inspection?)
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
4. Data/Information Disclosure (as a deliberate lever to secure accountability)
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
5. Using the media to hold the force to account
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
6. For PCC oversight of specific police operations?
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
7. PCC system of PQs/PMQs.
Not just correspondence between PCC, the public and the force, but a special type of laying down of a question & answer facilitated by the PCC.
PCC – A New Governance Model?
PCC Governance OPTIONS?
8. Oh yes,….. and an old fashioned one-to-one with the Chief!
……but maybe some of it Podcast?
PCC – A New Governance Model?
Got any better ideas for governance by a PCC?