ILPA Summary House of the Commons Committee Stage of the Policing & Crime Bill 2015-16: Days 1, 2 & 3 (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th sittings), 15, 22 and 24 March 2016

Briefing

The Bill’s Second Reading took place on 07 March 2016. Links to debates are added below.

Committee Debate 1st sitting: House of Commons 15 March 2016

Witnesses

  • Chief Superintendent Irene Curtis OBE, President, the Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales
  • Chief Superintendent Gavin Thomas, President-elect, the Police Superintendents Association of England and Wales
  • Ben Priestley, Head of Police and Justice (lead official for members in the police service in England and Wales), Unison
  • Steve White, Chair, Police Federation of England and Wales
  • Metin Enver, Strategic Adviser, Police Federation of England and Wales
  • Matt Wrack, General Secretary, Fire Brigades Union
  • Paul Hancock, President, Chief Fire Officers Association
  • Councillor John Edwards, Chair, West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority and Vice-Chair, Association of Metropolitan Fire and Rescue Authorities
  • Councillor Dave Hanratty, Chair, Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority and member, AMFRA
  • Chief Fire Officer Phil Loach, West Midlands Fire Service
  • Chief Fire Officer Dave Etheridge OBE, Vice-President, Chief Fire Officers Association

Committee Debate 2nd sitting: House of Commons 15 March 2016

Witnesses

  • Cassandra Harrison, Deputy Director, Policy and Public Affairs, Barnardo’s
  • Iryna Pona, Policy Adviser, Children’s Society
  • Alan Wardle, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, NSPCC
  • Winston Roddick, Chair, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners
  • David Jamieson, Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands
  • David Lloyd, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire
  • Vera Baird QC, Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria
  • Chief Constable Sara Thornton, Chair, National Police Chiefs Council
  • Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, Metropolitan Police
  • Dr Julie Chalmers, Specialist Adviser, Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • Sally Burke, Get Maisie Home Campaign
  • Dame Anne Owers, Chair, Independent Police Complaints Commission
  • Professor Dame Shirley Pearce, Chair, College of Policing
  • Alex Marshall, Chief Executive, College of Policing

 

Part 1 of the Bill (Emergency services collaboration) was debated in the Committee’s 3rd and 4th sittings.

Committee Debate 3rd sitting: 22 March 2016

Matters covered from Part 1 were: 

  • Chapter 1: Collaboration agreements
  • Chapter 2 : Police and crime commissioners: fire and rescue functions

Committee Debate 4th sitting: 22 March 2016

Matters covered from Part 1 were: 

  • Chapter 2 : Police and crime commissioners: fire and rescue functions (continued)
  • Chapter 3: London Fire Commissioner

 

Part 2 of the Bill (Police complaints, discipline and inspection) was debated in the Committee’s 4th and 5th sittings.

Committee Debate 4th sitting: 22 March 2016

  • Chapter 1: Police complaints

Committee Debate 5th sitting: 24th March 2016 

  • Chapter 2: Police super-complaints (continued)
  • Chapter 3: Whistle-blowing: power of IPCC to investigate
  • Chapter 4: Police discipline
  • Chapter 5: Inspection

 

Part 3 of the Bill (Police complaints, discipline and inspection) was debated in the Committee’s 5th sitting. 

Amendments addressed are summarised in the Notices of Amendments (for the 22nd and 24th March respectively) below.

Full details on the Bill can be found here. 

Document Date
2016-04-08
Issue Number
16.04.32039

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