Community Review Group

Attendees:

• Customer Service Manager (Chair) – OPFCC
• Senior Customer Service Advisor (Deputy Chair) – OPFCC
• Customer Service Assistant – OPFCC
• Community Review Group (CRG) Volunteers
• North Yorkshire Police Representation

Purpose:
The CRG Meeting will review cases from across the North Yorkshire policing area and refer any cases for supplementary consideration by North Yorkshire Police / relevant scrutiny panel based on:

• Good practice that should be disseminated
• Concern that procedures have not been appropriately followed
• Insufficient information or representation at CRG to form a view on one or more cases.

How:

How will we achieve the purpose?

• A dip sample selection of at least 10 x ‘Stop and Search’ evaluations and 10 x ‘Use of Force’ will be selected and prepared by the OPFCC for presentation at the meeting with the support of NYP.
• Attendees will openly scrutinise the samples presented, considering legislation and PACE principles.
• Actions and / or feedback will be logged and progress against these monitored.
• We will be professional. We will be honest, with open interactions respecting other participants input and views.
• We will keep to time and remain focussed.

Approach

• Meets quarterly (Hosted via Microsoft Teams)Sessions will be held on an evening to accommodate CRG Volunteer preference and availability
• A minimum of 3 CRG volunteers will be required to facilitate each meeting, to ensure each session allows for impartial debate.
• There will be an expectation that the ‘Confidentiality Agreement’ has been read and accepted prior to the meeting, with recorded acceptance taking place during the session.
• Attendance at Annual Volunteer Conference (to include training, updates on legislation / best practice and facilitated sessions by subject matter experts)
• A summary of the session feedback and any associated actions will be recorded by the OPFCC Chair and formally managed via the OPFCC Assurance Framework.
• Professionalism – The Chair will ensure that sessions encourage open dialogue and discussion on case samples reviewed by participants in a safe environment.