Police reform proposals examined by Committee

The Committee made a number of recommendations, including that:

• after the Olympics, the Home Office should consider making counter-terrorism a separate command of the New National Crime Agency, rather than it being the responsibility of the Metropolitan Police;
• a head of the new National Crime Agency by the Government be appointed urgently;
• the Home Office should be more active in encouraging and supporting forces to collaborate with one another; and
• a professional body for policing be created, acting as a useful part of the policing landscape.

The review of pay and conditions is having an inevitable impact on morale in the police service, but the Committee feels it is possible to do more to mitigate this.

IT across the police service as a whole is not fit for purpose and the Home Office must make revolutionising police IT a top priority.

The Committee commends the work of Jan Berry, the former Reducing Bureaucracy in Policing Advocate, in emphasising that reducing bureaucracy in the police service is not simply about reducing paperwork, but addressing the causes of that paperwork.

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