Public accountability meeting – 23 February 2021 - York & North Yorkshire Office for Policing, Fire, Crime and Commissioning

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Meeting overview

This month’s meeting focuses on:

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service – Defining and managing risk
An update on the development of a community risk profile for the county, to help understand the risks facing our communities so that we can target our activities effectively.
North Yorkshire Police – Stalking
An insight into North Yorkshire Police’s approach to dealing with stalking and harassment, to understand the recording, investigation process and hear about the services to support victims and reduce reoffending.

The full procedure for asking questions at this meeting is available here: Procedure for public questions

To ask a question in advance
Send your question to [email protected] before the day of the meeting. Please include your name and address with your question.
To ask a question during the meeting using Twitter
To ask a question during the live broadcast, post your question on Twitter using #NYscrutiny
Not all questions may be able to be used, but they will inform the Commissioner’s questioning and the general discussion.

Thomas Thorp – Interim Assistant Chief Executive & Deputy Monitoring Officer
Caroline Blackburn – Interim Assistant Chief Executive & Deputy Monitoring Officer

Defining and managing risk presentation:

Performance update:

Stalking presentation:

Performance update:

No	Time	Item	Lead
1	13:30	Attendance and introductions	Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
2	13:32	Minutes of previous meeting and Actions	All
3	13:35	Public questions	Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
4	13:40	Defining and managing risk	Fire
5	14:25	Performance update	Fire
6	14:45	Stalking Supporting victims of crime	Police
7	15:30	Performance update	Police
8	15:50	Public questions	Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
9	15:55	Any other business	All
10	16:00	Next meeting 23 March	2021

Question 1
Julie Hoyle
Please would you elaborate if you can on what exactly is a stalking clinic?
Thank you

Question 2
Alison Hume
Agenda item 4. Defining Risk Presentation – Fire
Should the interpretation of the incident data not also include response times and duration of incident intervention?

Question 3 – 5
Alison Hume
Agenda item 7. Performance Report- Police – Operational & FCR – January 2021Page 3: There is said to be a dip in Mental Health related incidents this month. Is this not due to the current lockdown and in fact shows just a lack of reported incidents?Page 20: What analysis has been performed to make best use of deployment of new police officers?Page 21: Why no increase in PCSOs? Was a resourcing decision made only for an increase in PCs? If so who made this decision and why? Was this a central government decision?

Question 6
Gwen Swinburn @GSwinburn
When someone has been imprisoned for rape, what rules / good practices are in place to ensure that employers inform their staff. What are the duty of care obligations?

Question 7
Gwen Swinburn @GSwinburn
“North Yorkshire Police’s legal opinion informs them that Uber drivers working in York ARE breaking the law, so now have the power to remove them from the city”.
Can you ask the Police to confirm what their position is after this and reports on News and Local media?