The Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information Order) 2011 (as amended)(“SIO”) places a duty on the Commissioner to publish certain information within specified timescales, and for that information to be reviewed at prescribed frequencies.
Links to all information required to be published in accordance with the SIO are available on this page. For ease of reference, the wording has been taken directly from the legislation to provide a clear picture of the Commissioner’s compliance with her duties in this area.
Interpretations
To assist with the understanding of this section, the following interpretations may be useful:
(i) are women,
(ii) are, to the knowledge of the elected local policing body, members of an ethnic minority,
(iii) have, to the knowledge of the elected local policing body, a disability (within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality Act 2010);
All required staff information above is available in our OPCC Staff Structure Chart together with the Northumbria OPCC Pay Multiple
(c) an organisational chart showing the structure of the staff;
(d) the job title, responsibilities and salary of each senior employee and (unless the senior employee refuses to consent to the publication of his name) the name of the senior employee;
(e) a register of each offer of a gift or hospitality made to a relevant office holder or member of staff, indicating whether the offer was accepted or refused.
2A. In relation to—
(a) the duty of the chief officer of the police force maintained by the elected local policing body to provide assistance to the body under section 2(5) or 4(5) of the 2011 Act; and
(b) the power of a local authority to provide administrative, professional or technical services to the elected local policing body under section 1(1) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970,
information as to any arrangements for use by the elected local policing body of the staff of the chief officer or of a local authority under those provisions.
(i) the elected local policing, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body,
exceeding £500 (other than a crime and disorder reduction grant made by the elected local policing body or an item of expenditure to which sub-paragraph (h) applies), including the recipient of the funds, the purpose of the expenditure and the reasons why the body or the chief officer (as the case may be) considered that good value for money would be obtained.
(h) information as to each item of expenditure of the elected local policing body in relation to travel by, accommodation for, or the subsistence of, a relevant office holder, including the recipient of the funds, the purpose of the expenditure and the reasons why the elected local policing body considered that good value for money would be obtained.
(i) the elected local policing body, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body,
is or is to be a party;
(c) a copy of each invitation to tender issued by—
(i) the elected local policing body, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body,
in relation to a contract which the body or chief officer (as the case may be) expects will have a value exceeding £10,000;
(d) a list of every contract with a value not exceeding £10,000 to which—
(i) the elected local policing body, or
(ii) the chief officer of the police force maintained by the body,
is or is to be a party, including the value of the contract, the identity of every other party to the contract and the purpose of the contract.
We also publish our Collaboration Agreements, Audited Accounts, the auditor’s opinion of the accounts of the PCC and the force and the annual accounting statement showing how the budget has been spent.