Section 28: Police and crime panels outside London
129.Section 28 provides for each police area except the Metropolitan Police District to have a police and crime panel to scrutinise the police and crime commissioner’s exercise of his functions.
130.Subsection (2) requires the police and crime panel to exercise its functions with a view to supporting the effective exercise of the functions of the police and crime commissioner.
131.Subsection (3) sets out the police and crime panel’s duties in relation to the police and crime plan submitted to them by the police and crime commissioner in accordance with section 5(6)(c).
132.Subsection (4) sets out the police and crime panel’s duties in relation to the annual report submitted to them by the police and crime commissioner in accordance with section 12(2).
133.Subsection (5) confers the functions set out in Schedules 1, 5 and 8 in relation to a police and crime commissioner’s proposed appointment of a deputy police and crime commissioner, chief executive or chief finance officer, proposed precept and proposed appointment of a chief constable, respectively.
134.Subsection (6) places a general duty on the police and crime panel to scrutinise the police and crime commissioner’s exercise of his functions in respect of any matter not covered by the preceding subsections.
135.Subsections (7) and (8) provide for a police and crime panel to publish its reports and recommendations and (in England) to send copies to the local authorities in the police area.
136.Subsection (10) introduces Schedule 6.
