Schedule 1 - National Policing improvement Agency
Police and Justice Bill
9:15 am
Lynne Featherstone (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Hornsey and Wood Green, Liberal Democrat)
This is a probing amendment to examine, in terms that we will understand, what is best value, and under what terms the national policing improvement agency will operate. It relates to a later amendment to clause 3 that looks at the regime under which police authorities might be asked to perform. We are uncertain about the regime under which the agency will work—is it a best value organisation?
We suggest that the national policing improvement agency should have a clear duty to promote best practice, provide support, monitor and report on outcomes, but through the amendment it would not actually be tied up in best value itself. We are focusing on continuous improvement. We want to probe the Government and the Minister about what the standards will be and why, and how they will be promoted by the agency.