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House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Leadership and standards in the police Third Report of Session 2013–14 Volume II Oral and written evidence Additional written evidence is contained in Volume III, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/homeaffairscom Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 16 October, 6 and 27 November, and 4 December 2012, 15 January, 5 and 19 February, 14 and 16 May, and 4, 11 and 18 June, and 2 July 2013. HC 67-II Published on 22 July 2013 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £14.50 Home Affairs Committee The Home Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies. Current membership Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP (Labour, Leicester East) (Chair) Nicola Blackwood MP (Conservative, Oxford West and Abingdon) James Clappison MP (Conservative, Hertsmere) Michael Ellis MP (Conservative, Northampton North) Lorraine Fullbrook MP (Conservative, South Ribble) Dr Julian Huppert MP (Liberal Democrat, Cambridge) Steve McCabe MP (Labour, Birmingham Selly Oak) Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour, Houghton and Sunderland South) Mark Reckless MP (Conservative, Rochester and Strood) Chris Ruane MP (Labour, Vale of Clwyd) Mr David Winnick MP (Labour, Walsall North) The following Member was also a member of the Committee during the Parliament. Rt Hon Alun Michael MP (Labour & Co-operative, Cardiff South and Penarth) Karl Turner MP (Labour, Kingston upon Hull East) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/homeaffairscom. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Tom Healey (Clerk), Dr Richard Benwell and Robert Cope (Second Clerks), Eleanor Scarnell (Committee Specialist), Andy Boyd (Senior Committee Assistant), Michelle Garratty (Committee Assistant), Iwona Hankin (Committee Support Officer) and Alex Paterson (Select Committee Media Officer). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 3276; the Committee’s email address is [email protected]. Witnesses page Tuesday 16 October 2012 Keith Bristow QPM, Director General National Crime Agency Ev 1 Tuesday 8 January 2013 Sir Hugh Orde, President, Association of Chief Police Officers and Simon Edens, Deputy Chief Constable, ACPO lead on anti-social behaviour Ev 8 Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ev 17 Tuesday 12 February 2013 Alex Marshall, College of Policing Ev 30 Tuesday 23 April 2013 Dal Babu, Chief Superintendent (retired) and Mike Fuller, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service Ev 43 Tuesday 14 May 2013 Mark Burns-Williamson, West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Tim Passmore, Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner and Alan Hardwick, Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner Ev 50 Peter Box, Outgoing Chair, West Yorkshire Police and Crime Panel, Patricia O’Brien, Chair, Suffolk Police and Crime Panel and Ray Wootten, Chair, Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel Ev 59 Tom Winsor, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary Ev 66 Tuesday 18 June 2013 Rt Hon Damian Green MP, Minister of State for Policing and Criminal Justice Ev 73 List of printed written evidence LSP Submitter 18 National Crime Agency Ev 85, 86 19 Home Office Ev 87, 90, 91, 91, 118 21 Association of Chief Police Officers Ev 92, 100, 100, 102 32 Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe QPM, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ev 103 33 Deputy Chief Constable Simon Edens, ACPO lead on anti-social behaviour Ev 104 36 Tim Passmore, Suffolk Police and Crime Commissioner Ev 104 37 Alan Hardwick, Lincolnshire Police and Crime Commissioner Ev 105 38 Alex Marshall, College of Policing Ev 107 39 Ray Wootten, Chair, Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel Ev 108 40 AC Cressida Dick, Metropolitan Police Ev 113 46 East Lindsey District Council Ev 116 List of additional written evidence (published in Volume III on the Committee’s website www.parliament.uk/homeaffairscom) LSP Submitter 1 Rachel Kearton Ev w1 2 Paul Veltman Ev w3 3 David Treadwell Ev w5 4 Department of Law, Policing and Investigation and the Centre for Forensic Investigation at Teesside University Ev w5 5 Police Foundation Ev w9 6 Stonewall Ev w13 7 Public and Commercial Services Union Ev w15 8 Higher Education Forum for Learning and Development in Policing Ev w17 9 Victim Support Ev w20 10 Independent Police Complaints Commission Ev w21 11 Skills for Justice Ev w24 12 Police Superintendents’ Association of England and Wales Ev w27 13 The Forensic Science Society Ev w30 14 Police Federation Ev w32 15 Dr Rodger Patrick Ev w36 16 Department of Law & Criminal Justice Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University Ev w42 17 Chartered Management Institute Ev w46 20 National Policing Improvement Agency Ev w51 22 John Kenny Ev w73 23 James Satherley Ev w74 24 Nigel Lloyd Ev w75 25 Hugh Oliver-Bellasis Ev w76 26 Chris Panther Ev w76 27 Colin Taylor Ev w77 28 Allen Jordan Ev w78 29 Vicky Robinson Ev w78 30 Gary Jackson Ev w79 31 Viv Nicholas Ev w80 34 Professor Simon Holdaway Ev w81 35 A. J. Wright Ev w84 41 Nick Gargan QPM, Chief Constable, Avon and Somerset Constabulary Ev w86 42 Stephen Kavanagh, Chief Constable, Essex Police Ev w88 43 Mick Creedon, Chief Constable, Derbyshire Constabulary Ev w90 44 British Naturism Ev w92 45 Patricia Gallan QPM, Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Ev w92 47 Kevin Maxwell Ev w93 cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [SO] Processed: [18-07-2013 12:46] Job: 028296 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/028296/028296_o001_121016 Leadership corrected.xml Home Affairs Committee: Evidence Ev 1 Oral evidence Taken before the Home Affairs Committee on Tuesday 16 October 2012 Members present: Keith Vaz (Chair) Nicola Blackwood Bridget Phillipson Steve McCabe Mark Reckless Alun Michael Mr David Winnick ________________ Examination of Witness Witness: Keith Bristow QPM, Director General, National Crime Agency, gave evidence. Q1 Chair: Good afternoon Mr Bristow. Thank you Superintendents Association. What I said was it would very much. I am sorry for keeping you waiting. We be under £500 million when you take into account the have had a heavy session so far and also a vote in the various independent funding streams that we will middle, although there are no votes in the middle of receive. your evidence session. I am operating on the assumption that our core Thank you very much for coming. It is nine months funding will be the post comprehensive spending since we last saw you when you were the only review budget of our main precursor. employee of the National Crime Agency, the flagship of the Government’s new landscape of policing. Have Q5 Chair: Sorry, can I stop you there? We are not you been joined by other people? very good at jargon. We would like just figures if you Keith Bristow: I have, Chair, and thank you very could tell me. Do you know what your budget is going much for inviting me back. We are steadily now to be? starting to recruit the senior leaders for the NCA, so I Keith Bristow: I am operating on the assumption that have been joined by Trevor Pearce, who is the current it will be £403 million, which is the SOCA budget Director General of the Serious Organised Crime for the year of our first operation, but SOCA receives Agency. He has joined us and he is now double- around £40 million or so in other grants to undertake hatted. He has undertaken a Director of Operations particular work, so it will be, I would assume, over role within the NCA at the same as running SOCA. £403 million, but I don’t have a precise figure at the Peter Davies, who is the Chief Executive of CEOP moment, Chair. has joined us on the same basis, and we have recruited David Armond as Director of Border Policing. Shortly Q6 Chair: So, your understanding is that you will we will be in a position to make an announcement on get SOCA’s budget less the special grants that they the Directors of Organised Crime and Economic get, which is about £403 million, but you have not Crime.
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