Specified Information

Under the Freedom of Information Act we will routinely publish a range of information on this website relating to decisions, register and other matters of public interest (formerly known as our Publications Scheme).

The Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information Order) 2011 as amended in 2012, The Elected Local Policing Bodies (Specified Information order) 2013 and The Elected Local Policing Bodes (Specified Information Order) amendement 2021, places a duty on the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) to publish certain information within specified timescales and for that information to be reviewed at prescribed frequencies.

For ease please find below the information required for transparency purposes and a link to the relevant area of the website can be found in the table below:

 

If you cannot find the information you require please Contact Us.

 
Information ItemLink to Relevant Item/Page/Section
 1. In relation to the relevant office holders
a) The name of each relevant office holder:  PCC and Deputy PCC (if applicable) Office of the PCC
b) The address for correspondence of each relevant office holder
c) The salary of each relevant office holder
d) The allowanes paid to each relevant office holder in respect of expenses incurred by the office holder in the exercise of the body's functions Expenses
e) A Register of Interests of relevant office holders, including every paid employment or office or other pecuniary interest of each relevant office holder Lists and Registers
f) The number of complaints or conduct matters that have been brought to the attention of a relevant office holder by the Police & Crime Panel (either because they have been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commissioner, or because they are being subjected to informatl resolution by the panel)

 

 
2.In relation to the staff  (and, in relation to gifts and hospitality, also the relevant office holders)
a) The number of member of staff Office of the PCC
b)

The proportion of staff w

  1. are women
  2. are, to the knowledge of the Elected Local Policing Body, members of an ethnic minority
  3. have, to the knowledge of the Elected Local Policing Body, a disability (within the meaning of Section 6 of the Equality Act 2010)
c)

An organisational chart showing the structure of the staff

d)

The job title, responsibilities and salary of each senior employee and 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

Lists & Registers

2AIn relation to the Chief Constable 
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  Joint Corporate Governance Framework  
b) The power of a local authority to provide aministrative, professional or technical services to the Elected Local Policing Body under section 1(1) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) act 1970
c) 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

 

3.In relation to income and expenditure

a)

The total budget          

Finance

b)

The precept

c)

Information as to each anticipated source of revenue (other than the precept)

d)

Information as to the proposed expenditure

e)

A copy of the Annual Investment Strategy

f)

Information as to each Crime and Disorder Reduction Grant made, including the conditions (if any) attached to the grant, the recipent of the grant, the purpose of the grant and the reasons why the body considered the grant would secure, or contribute to securing crime and disorder reduction in the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland areas

Commissioning

g)

Information as to each item of expenditure over £500 (other than a Crime and Disorder Grant or an item of expenditure to which sub-paragraph (h) applies)

Finance

h)

Information as to each item of expenditure in relation to travel, accommodation for, or the subsistence (including within the expense claims of each office holder) of, a relevant office holder, including the recipient of the funds, the purpose of the expenditure and the reasons why it was considered that good value for money would be obtained

4. In relation to property, rights and liabilities

a)

The identity of any premises or land owned by, or occupied for the purposes of the Elected Local Policing Body

Lists & Registers  

b)

A copy of each contract with a value exceeding £10,000 to which the Elected Local Policing Body, or the Chief Officer of Leicestershire Police, is or is to be a party

Contracts & Tenders

c)

A copy of each invitation to tender issued by the Elected Local Policing Body, or the Chief Officer of Leicestershire Police in relation to a contract which it is expected will have a value exceeding £10,000

d)

A list of every contract with a value not exceeding £10,000 to which the Elected Local Policing Body or the Chief Officer of Leicestershire Police 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

 

5. In relation to decisions 
a)

The dates, times and places of each public meeting held by the Elected Local Policing Body.

Meetings
b) A copy of the agenda for each public meeting held by the Elected Local Policing Body and any report or other document that is the subject matter of an item on the agenda
c) A copy of the minutes of each public meeting held by the Elected Local Policing Body and of each meeting which is not a public meeting but at which matters of significant public interest arising from the exercise of the Body's functions are discussed
d) A record of each decision of significant public interet arising from the exercise of the Elected Local Policing Body's functions, whether made by the body at, or as a result of, a meeting or otherwise Decisions

 

6.In relation to policies

a)

A statement of the policy in relation to the conduct of relevant office holders, including procedures for the handling of qualifying complaints and conduct matters (within the meaning of Section 31 of the 211 Act)

Policies & Procedures

b) A statement of the policy in relation to the making of decisions of significant public interest arising from the Body's functions

c)

A statement of the policy in relation to records management, includng procedures for the security and sharing of information and the renention and destruction of documents

d)

As statement of the policy in relation to the Data Protection Act



7.In relation to the prevention of crime and disorder
                                          

A copy of any report required by the Elected Local Policing Body from the responsible authorities for a local government area under Section 7(1) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998

TBC

7AIn relation to the key national priorities for policing, as communicated to elected local policing bodies by the Secretary of State

a)

A statement on the contribution of the police forced maintained by the Elected Local Policing Boxy to achieving improvements agaisnt those priorities

TBC

b)

An explanation of which of the national priorities are accessed to be applicable and which not applicable in the context of the relevant policce area and the reasons for that assessment

TBC

7BIn relation to inspections and reports by the Inspectors of Constabulary under Section 54(2) of teh Police Act 1996 (appointment and functions of inspectors and constabulary((2), the most recent
a) Annual Report on the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy of Leicestershire Police TBC
b) Summary assessment of the performance of Leicestershire Police TBC
7CThe Specified Information Order requires PCCs to publish the most recent Independent Office of Police Complaints (IOPC) Quarterly Complaints Data for the force and the IOPC Annual Statistics Report, alongside an Annual Report on complaints setting out how the PCC is holding the Chief Constable to accunt and the PCC's assessment of their own performance in carrying out their other complaints handling functions
a)

In relation to complaints concerning the Leicestershire Police Force

  1. The most recent quarterly data
  2. The Annual Statistics Report published by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC)

IOPC Statistics

b)

A report setting out how the Elected Local Policing Body has fulfilled its duty under Section 1(8)(ca) of the 2011 Act (Police and Crime Commissiooners)(3) to hold the Chief Constable to accunt for the exercise of the Chief Constable's functions under Part 2 of the Police Reform Act 2002(4) in relation to the handling of complaints

 
c)

A report setting out an assessment by the Elected Local Policing Body of its performance in exercising its functions under paragraph 30(1)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002

 

 

 
 8.In relation to the Independent Custody Visitor arrangements
A report setting out the operation of arrangements in relation to the Independent Custody Visitors under Section 51 of the Police Reform Act 2022  Independent Custody Visitors