26 June 2024
Minutes of Meeting
Meeting: COT Board
Venue: Haigh Room, Alverton Court
Date and Time: 26th June 2024
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ATTENDANCE CC Forber DCC Bisset ACC Catherine Clarke T/ACC Wayne Fox CFO Louise Branford-White CI Roffe – Staff Officer ACO Lisa Stitt for items 1-3 Maeve Chappell – Head of Corporate Communications Sarah Gardiner – GSO, Executive Support
APOLOGIES None |
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ITEM 1: NYP Consultancy Summary of Discussion: Bernard Marr, Rebecca Baran (Head of Corporate Development) and Gillian Havelock (Governance and Assurance lead) joined the meeting to provide an update on the draft plan on a page. Key Performance Indicators were discussed, and the COT supported the final draft. CFO Branford-White raised KPI’s in the finance area of business how these could be put into practice. The Plan on a Page will be launched at the Force Strategic Planning Day on the 3rd July 2024. ACTION - Head of Corporate Development to arrange a meeting with Bernard Marr, DCC Bisset and the performance team to discuss KPI’s and KPO’s. |
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ITEM 2: PPST (Public and Personal Safety training) Summary of Discussion: Supt Berriman Specialist Operations and T/Chief Superintendent Naughton Head of Protective Services joined the meeting to present the current pressures and foreseeable pressures in delivering training to the force. As of 1 April 2024, new mandated training requirements for Public and Personal Safety Training (PPST), formerly Officer Safety Training (OST), came into effect. The College of Policing have confirmed that there is no extension to the implementation timescales and as such forces are now mandated to deliver the revised training programme. NYP do not have a dedicated training facility and is reliant on being able to hire and rent venues to deliver this training. With the revised training curriculum there is now a dependency on using training equipment such as Blackwall matting. This matting is stored at the site, incurring additional venue hire cost, in terms of storage, to allow the Trainers to assemble and disassemble daily as the venues are also hired and in use for other purposes by other organisations, this is causing additional wear and tear to equipment. A discussion took place around investment, with NYP not having a dedicated training venue and the issues that has presented. The use of facilities at neighbouring and regional forces was an issue due to travel time, cost and officer wellbeing, with some forces training facilities no longer available after 2025. The requirement for a dedicated training venue in the force was discussed along with income generation options for all training including, TASER, PPST, Police Support Unit Training and Firearms. The COT acknowledged the issues colleagues have at present and it is untenable in the long term from NYP not to have a training venue and it is not tenable to predict our strategic response on what other force areas do. ACTION – Full business case to be presented to COT on the 4th September 2024. Strategic risks to be addressed around neighbouring force facilities. CFO to be fully consulted with costing options. GSO to add to the forward planner. |
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ITEM 3: Action and Decision Log Summary of Discussion: Action 575 – Overtime. Update to be provided as part of the budget report. Closed. Action 589 – Pension Abatement. Head of People Services has liaised with other forces. Closed. Action 580 – Resourcing request for the Professional Standards Department. Remitted to the Resourcing Board. Closed. |
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ITEM 4: People Management Summary of Discussion: Leanne Consett Head of People Services joined the meeting. Clarification had been sought on Pension Abatement. It was confirmed regulations stipulate pensions should be fully abated from the 1st April 2022. A discussion took place and Head of People Services will progress further and update COT on the 10th July 2024. |
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ITEM 5: Review of minutes Summary of Discussion: The minutes from the meeting held on the 19th June 2024 were reviewed and agreed. |
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ITEM 6: COT Forward Planner Summary of Discussion: The forward planner was discussed. DCC Bisset requested the Angolini Enquiry be rescheduled to October. The Wellbeing Survey Response to be added to the Forward Planner. |
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ITEM 7: Urgent financial decisions and updates Summary of Discussion: CFO Branford-White presented the 2024/25 Revenue Budget detail. The CFO made COT aware of the committed overspend to date and advised the prioritisation process is underway and the Savings and Efficiencies Board will oversee the process and further work will be undertaken to understand and identify current police staff vacancies. A discussion took place around overtime and department budgets the current position in the force was explained. Overtime continued to be monitored by supervisors. |
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ITEM 8: Any other portfolio updates by exception Summary of Discussion: None advised for discussion. |
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ITEM 9: Chief Officer Team Commitments Summary of Discussion: The commitment sheets for the next 2 weeks were reviewed. It is Response Policing week, and the COT were committed to working with response teams across the force. The CC will visit Harrogate and Scarborough, DCC Bisset will attend Skipton and ACC Clarke will attend York and Scarborough. |
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ITEM 10: Any other Business Summary of Discussion: None raised for discussion. |
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DATE AND TIME OF NEXT MEETING Date of next meeting: 10th July 2024 Time: 9:30 am |