Police and Crime Commissioners

Inquiry by the Home Affairs Committee, 29 October 2013 to 13 January 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

• 1st Report - Police and Crime Commissioners: Register of Interests (23 May 2013)
• 6th Report - Police and Crime Commissioners: power to remove Chief Constables (Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence) (20 July 2013)
• Government Response to 6th Report (2013-14): Police and Crime Commissioners: power to remove Chief Constables - Cm 8766 (3 December 2013)
• 16th Report - Police and Crime Commissioners: progress to date (5 May 2014)
• Police and Crime Commissioners: Progress to date: Government Response to the Committee's Sixteenth Report of Session 2013-14 (15 December 2014)

Evidence sessions

• 26 November 2013: Ron Ball, Warwickshire PCC Sir Graham Bright, Cambridgeshire PCC Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester PCC and Chairman, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners Sir Hugh Orde, President, Association of Chief Police Officers Sir Peter Fahy, Vice President, Association of Chief Police Officers Colette Paul, Chief Constable, Bedfordshire Police
• 7 January 2014: Katy Bourne, Police and Crime Commissioner for Sussex Anthony Stansfeld, Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley Martin Richards QPM, Chief Constable, Sussex Police Sara Thornton CBE, QPM, Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police Lord Stevens, Independent Police Commission Professor Ian Loader, Independent Police Commission
• 21 January 2014: Max Chambers, Policy Exchange, Jon Collins, Police Foundation, Bernard Rix, Comparing Police and Crime Commissioners (CoPaCC); Lord Wasserman; Bob Jones, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner, Sue Mountstevens, Avon and Somerset Police and Crime Commissioner, Chief Constable Chris Sims, QPM, West Midlands Police, and Chief Constable Nick Gargan, QPM, Avon and Somerset Police
• 4 February 2014: Councillor Joanna Spicer, Local Government Association Ed Hammond, Centre for Public Scrutiny Councillor Dorothy Ross-Tomlin, Chair, Surrey Police and Crime Panel Councillor Alison Lowe, West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel Councillor Roger Seabourne, former member of Hertfordshire Police and Crime Panel Steve Williams, Chair, Police Federation Steve White, Vice-Chair, Police Federation
• 25 February 2014: Ann Barnes, Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent Alan Pughsley, Chief Constable for Kent, The right Hon. Damian Green MP, Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice