The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2660

Criminal Law, England

The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Amendment) Regulations 2012

Made

22nd October 2012

Laid before Parliament

25th October 2012

Coming into force

22nd November 2012

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(2), (3), (4) and (4A) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998(1).

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 and come into force on 22nd November 2012.

(2) These Regulations apply to England only.

Amendments to the Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) Regulations 2007

2.—(1) The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) Regulations 2007(2) are amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 9 insert—

“9A.   The county strategy group shall send a copy of the community safety agreement to the elected local policing body for the police area which comprises or includes the county area.”.

(3) After regulation 13 insert—

“13A.   The strategy group for each area with the exception of the City of London shall send a copy of the partnership plan to the elected local policing body for the police area which comprises or includes the strategy group’s area.”.

(4) After regulation 14 insert—

“14A.— (1) A police and crime commissioner may require representatives of the responsible authorities for any area that lies within the police area to attend a meeting for the purpose of assisting in the formulation and implementation of any strategy (or strategies) that relate to any part of the police area.

(2) The police and crime commissioner may specify—

(a) the responsible authorities which are to send representatives to a meeting held under paragraph (1);

(b) the number of representatives that each responsible authority is, or the responsible authorities together are, to send to the meeting; and

(c) the strategy (or strategies) which is (or are) to be discussed at the meeting.

(3) The police and crime commissioner may exercise the powers in paragraphs (1) and (2) only—

(a) after consulting with any responsible authority affected; and

(b) to the extent that the commissioner, having taken account of the views of the affected responsible authorities, considers reasonable and proportionate in all the circumstances.

(4) In this regulation “strategy” means a strategy under section 6(1) of the 1998 Act.”.

Damian Green

Minister of State

Home Office

22nd October 2012

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”) provide for the formulation and implementation, by the responsible authorities in a local government area, of strategies for the reduction of re-offending and crime and disorder and for combating substance misuse. Regulation 9 provides for the preparation of a community safety agreement by the county strategy group formed by the responsible authorities in a county area under regulation 8. Regulation 10 provides for the preparation of a partnership plan by the strategy group formed by the responsible authorities in a local government area under regulation 3.

These Regulations insert new provision into the 2007 Regulations requiring the county strategy group to send a copy of the community safety agreement to the elected local policing body in whose police area the county is to be found. Provision is also inserted requiring the strategy group for every local government area except the City of London to send a copy of the partnership plan to the elected local policing body in whose police area the group’s local government area is to be found. The elected local policing body for a police area outside London is the police and crime commissioner; in the metropolitan police district, it is the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

These Regulations also insert new provision into the 2007 Regulations allowing a police and crime commissioner to require representatives of the responsible authorities to attend a force level meeting to assist in the formulation and implementation of strategies.

(1)

1998 c. 37. Section 6 was substituted by section 22 of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to, the Police and Justice Act 2006 (c. 48) and was amended by section 108(4) and (5) of the Policing and Crime Act 2009 (c. 26) and section 88 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 11 to, the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13). The Secretary of State is the appropriate national authority by virtue of section 6(9).

(2)

S.I. 2007/1830, as amended by S.I. 2010/647 and S.I. 2011/1230.