To be held via remote link: Agenda 1. Apologies for absence 2. Urgent Matters 3. Declaration of Interests 4.JAC Annual Governance Statement and Financial Statement 2019-20 4a. Group Statement of Accounts 2019-20 4b. CC Statement of Accounts 2019-20 4c. Surrey Police - LoR to EY draft 4d. Surrey Police - Audit Results Report 2019-20 [...]
I have asked the Chief Constable to comment on the report and to provide a full response on how Surrey Police is addressing the Area for Improvement for Chief Constables identified in the report. The Chief Constables response was: “I welcome the October 2019 HMICFRS report, The Hard Yards: Police-to-police collaboration, which focussed on the [...]
The independent charity Crimestoppers youth service ‘Fearless.org’ will continue in Surrey for at least another three years after Police and Crime Commissioner David Munro agreed to extend the funding for its dedicated outreach worker. Fearless.org offers young people non-judgemental advice so they can make informed decisions about reporting crime and allows them to give information [...]
To be held via remote link. Agenda - Part One 1. Apologies for absence 2. Urgent Matters 3. Declaration of Interests 4. Minutes of previous meeting 29th July 2020 5. Surrey Joint Audit Committee (JAC) Progress Report (Cover sheet) a. Surrey Police Internal Audit Progress Report b. SIAP VSA EQA [...]
The Police and Crime Commissioner David Munro has welcomed a near £400,000 funding boost from central government announced today to help police enforcement of the Covid-19 rules in Surrey. The Home Office revealed police forces and local councils will receive an additional £60 million in ‘surge funding’ as part of the government’s plans to tackle [...]
I welcome the HMICFRS’s focus on Countylines and the recommendations that emphasise a need to improve our response to vulnerable people especially children. I am pleased the inspection highlights that joint working is improving but agree more could be done both locally and nationally to protect our most at risk people and communities from the [...]
I am pleased to see that HMICFRS have found that most forces have a good and improving capability to the multi-agency approach towards Prevent. I welcome the recommendations made for the NPCC to give further clarity, guidance and support to forces. Locally we have made great improvements over the last few years in working with [...]
The Police and Crime Commissioner David Munro said public co-operation in Surrey remained key following tighter Covid-19 restrictions announced by the government yesterday. The PCC said he supported Surrey Police’s approach that enforcement should remain the last resort but said anyone who continued to break the rules or refused to comply with officers should [...]
I wholeheartedly agree that everyone needs to play their part in identifying, preventing and tackling child sexual abuse in the family environment. Lives are destroyed when this type of abhorrent abuse is not identified. Having a thorough knowledge of the early warning signs and the confidence to be professionally curious and challenge is fundamental to [...]
Surrey Police has worked hard over recent years to considerably improve its response to domestic abuse and this has included the delivery of joint training with the CPS to increase understanding of evidence led investigations. This has included the effective use of Res gestae as a gateway to allow hearsay evidence against defendants in domestic [...]
