Circular: Additional paternity leave 013/2012
Home Office circular 003/2012 publicised the Home Secretary’s approval of PNB circular 11/4 which relates to additional paternity leave within the police service.
This circular publicises the amendments to the Secretary of State’s determinations under the Police Regulations 2003 to implement these provisions. The amendments have been made to annex S and are attached to this circular. The effective date of these changes is 3 April 2011.
Circular 012/2012. Amendments to determinations under the Police Regulations 2003.
This circular publicises the amendments to the Secretary of State’s determinations under the Police Regulations 2003 to implement the two-year suspension of incremental progression for Assistant Chief Constables. The amendments have been made to annex F of those determinations and are attached to this circular. The effective date for this change is 1 June 2012.
This Statutory Guidance for Police Collaboration is published to assist chief officers and policing bodies when considering and implementing collaborative working as a means to achieving more efficient and effective delivery of policing services. It includes clarification of the relevant legislation that governs collaboration in the police service, in particular of sections 22A to 23I of the Police Act 1996 (referred to as “the Act” for the remainder of this document) which set out the provisions under which collaboration agreements may be made by police forces and policing bodies. These legal provisions were amended and expanded by the Policing and Crime Act 2009 and the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011.
The document is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statutory-guidance-for-police-collaboration
Police forces have a duty to obtain and use a wide variety of information (including personal information), in order to discharge their responsibilities effectively. They need the support and cooperation of the public in doing so. The purpose of the Code and associated guidance is to assist the police to carry out that duty.
The code sets out the principles governing the management of information (including personal information) which the police service may need to manage and use including:-
(a) procedures to be applied in obtaining and recording that information;
(b) procedures to ensure the accuracy of information managed by the police;
(c) procedures for reviewing the need to retain information and, where it is no longer needed, to destroy it;
(d) procedures governing authorised sharing of information within the police service and with other agencies; and
(e) measures to maintain consistent procedures for the management of information within all police forces so as to facilitate information sharing and the development of service-wide technological support for information management.
Made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department under sections 39 and 39A of the Police Act 1996 and sections 28, 28A, 73 and 73A of the Police Act 1997.
The document is available here:
https://library.college.police.uk/docs/APPref/Management-of-Police-Information.pdf
The purpose of the code is:
– To set out the responsibilities of chief officers in relation to the management of police pursuits;
– To set out the overarching framework for the management of police pursuits;
– To set out the overarching framework for selection, training and authorisation of police officers and other police staff to conduct police pursuits;
– To encourage the identification and promulgation of good practice in relation to police purposes;
– To specify the need for procedures to support post incident investigations, and post incident welfare of staff and others involved.
By fulfilling these purposes, the code will:
– Provide a framework that contributes to public safety;
– Enhance public confidence in the management of police pursuits;
– Ensure that police pursuits are undertaken only when a necessary and proportionate means of preventing crime and apprehending offenders.
The code of practice comes into effect on 23 May 2011. It is issued under:
– Section 39 of the Police Act 1996, which permits the Secretary of State to issue codes of practice relating to the discharge by police authorities of any of their functions;
– Section 39A of the same Act (as inserted by section 2 of the Police Reform Act 2002) which permits the Secretary of State to issue codes of practice relating to the discharge of functions by chief officers where necessary for the purpose of promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of police forces in England and Wales.
– Under section 39A(7) of the Police Act 1996, chief officers have a duty to have regard to this code of practice when discharging a function to which this code relates. This code must be followed unless there are good reasons not to do so, in which case the decision not to follow the code should be recorded in writing.
– This code is issued to the chief officers and police authorities of police forces maintained for the police areas of England and Wales as defined in section 1 of the Police Act 1996.
– This code is available for adoption by other non-Home Office police forces in England and Wales, and by other jurisdictions within the United Kingdom.
The code is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-on-the-management-of-police-pursuits