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NBPA Achievement Report 2017-18 One Voice Strength in Unity NBPA Achievement Report 2017-2018 1 This is my first annual report. I have tried to capture a snapshot of the many diverse activities carried out by the NBPA Cabinet and me during 2017-18, my first year in office. Due to size constraints this does not include my President’s weekly bulletin, a new venture that has been welcomed by our members. The fact that we have achieved far more than has been recorded in this report is testimony to the outstanding effort by my team. Indeed much support work by them goes on unnoticed and unremarked. The suggestion for a new logo to celebrate our 20th anniversary came from Karen Geddes. John Awosoga has agreed to fill the long vacant Treasurers position. I am keen that we work together as a Cabinet on for example, press releases. This has resulted in a higher number of such releases than in previous years - noted by the many journalists who write on issues key to our movement. As a result I was invited to a recent Crime Reports Association event in London (see Press Releases (2017-18), p.49). The Cabinet functions well as a collective (there’s a lot of experience combined with fresh minds) and this has been useful in in agreeing the advice we give to local forces and individuals. Occasionally when those who have benefitted from our advice are given a public stage such as Nadeem Saddique they are quick to acknowledge the support received from my predecessors, namely Janet Hills, and Franstine Jones. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Tola Munro, Gwent Police & NBPA President 2017-19 #KeepingRaceOnTheAgenda #ImprovingPolicing #EliminatingDiscrimination 2 Table of Contents Summary of Presidential activity in 2017-18: ................................................................................................................. 4 NBPA Strategy 2018-2022 & Action Plan........................................................................................................................... 5 NBPA Cabinet & National Executive Committee (NEC) Membership ................................................................... 5 i) NBPA Cabinet roles & Scrutiny Committee ........................................................................................................ 6 ii) NBPA Membership List ................................................................................................................................................ 6 iii) NBPA Membership Subscriptions Document .................................................................................................... 6 Representation ................................................................................................................................................................................ 8 iv) NBPA Positive Action Progression Roundtable for Chief Officers ........................................................... 8 v) Celebrating Successes ................................................................................................................................................... 8 vi) Race Disparity Audit Roundtable 2018 ................................................................................................................ 8 vii) Positive Discrimination - NBPA Position ........................................................................................................ 9 Engagement ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 viii) Stakeholder relationships: ..................................................................................................................................... 9 ix) Attendance at National events ............................................................................................................................... 11 x) Cabinet members speaking at national roundtables, workshops and symposiums ................... 11 xi) Support of nationwide community engagement programme - KickOff@3 ..................................... 12 xii) Special focus on race and policing in Northern Ireland ....................................................................... 12 xiii) Black History Month Activities ......................................................................................................................... 12 Police Powers ................................................................................................................................................................................ 13 xiv) Knife Crime epidemic ............................................................................................................................................ 13 xv) Meeting with the UN Special Rapporteur and Parliamentary Submissions ............................... 13 Support ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 xvi) Re-emphasis on Support ..................................................................................................................................... 13 xvii) Re-launching/re-invigorating BPAs and EMAs ........................................................................................ 15 xviii) The Staff Data Analysis 2017 ............................................................................................................................. 16 xix) A focus on mental health and wellbeing related to Support. ............................................................. 17 xx) Annual NBPA Conferences .................................................................................................................................. 17 xxi) Support, Whistleblowing & Grievance .......................................................................................................... 17 Supporting Documents ............................................................................................................................................................. 18 Press Releases (2017-18) ....................................................................................................................................................... 49 3 One Voice Strength in Unity Summary of Presidential activity in 2017-18: Summary of NBPA Activity No President meeting 1-2-1 23 NBPA Cabinet meetings 7 Presidential support for 6 individuals/groups NBPA Force visits 30 NEC & AGM meetings 4 South-West & Wales Regionals 4 Police Supers meetings 6 Police Federation meetings 4 HMIC meetings 3 College of Policing meetings 8 Home Office meetings 4 NPCC Race/EDHR Portfolio meetings 8 Conference Committee 4 Media appearance 10 IOPC meetings 1 Black History Month events 7 Other (roundtables, presentations, 19 engagement etc) 4 One Voice Strength in Unity NBPA Strategy 2018-2022 & Action Plan It is several years since we had a published strategy. The President has led on developing a long term strategy for 2018-2022 to extend past the election period of this Cabinet. This allows a degree of continuity. The REP (Representation, Engagement & Police Powers) strategy was inherited from previous Presidents and has been extended to incorporate Support as REPS. This longer term perspective was outlined very well by Simon Holdaway: "...concerted work on the recruitment of BME officers has necessarily to be set within years of effort to ensure that recruitment, retention and promotion policies are interrelated as parts of a single strategy; that a defined notion of positive action supports everything that is done. ...race relations within constabularies ...requires concerted, long term strategy and action." Simon Holdaway, BSC Policing Network, 2013. We have done that”: Race and Ethnic Relations within Constabularies https://bscpolicingnetwork.com/2013/05/02/we-have-done-that-race-and-ethnic- relations-within-constabularies/amp/?__twitter_impression=true The Strategy and the Action Plan are published separately. NBPA Cabinet & National Executive Committee (NEC) Membership a - 2017-2019 Cabinet, former Cabinet Executives & Policing Minister Nick Hurd 5 i) NBPA Cabinet roles & Scrutiny Committee There has been a loss of NBPA documentation over the years. This includes a lack of role descriptions which has made my role as President more difficult. Similarly there has not been a Scrutiny Committee since 2016. Theresa Peltier (Derbyshire BPA) and Ricky Fields (Staffordshire MCA) agreed to be members of the Scrutiny Committee at the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Gwent in January 2018. The Cabinet roles have been updated by the President and submitted to the Scrutiny Committee for approval. These were subsequently submitted to the NEC Chairs and representatives prior to the Annual General Meeting in October 2018. These are due to be voted on at the next available NEC meeting. (NBPA Cabinet roles & List of Presidents, p.18). Cabinet members have been provided free samples of the 20th anniversary logo tie pins. There are also velco-backed patches which were sold at the 2018 Conference to help raise funds (NBPA Conference - Badge & Tie Pins prices, p.25). I would also like to acknowledge my deep debt, and that of the NBPA to Franstine Jones who left Suffolk Police earlier in the year. ii) NBPA Membership List List of affiliated members (NBPA Membership List, p.26). iii) NBPA Membership Subscriptions Document Member Associations
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