Public Document GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE, FIRE AND CRIME PANEL DATE: Friday, 14th May, 2021 TIME: 10.00 am VENUE: Manchester Town Hall Extension, Albert Square, Manchester M60 2LA AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES 2. CHAIRS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND URGENT BUSINESS 3. DECLARATION OF INTEREST 1 - 4 To receive declarations of interest in any item for discussion at the meeting. A blank form for declaring interests has been circulated with the agenda; please ensure that this is returned to the Governance & Scrutiny Officer at the start of the meeting. 4. CONFIRMATION HEARING - CHIEF CONSTABLE 5 - 8 To note the report of the Confirmation Hearing to appoint the Chief Constable of GMP, held on 26 March 2021. 5. BALANCED APPOINTMENT OBJECTIVE AND CO-OPTED 9 - 12 MEMBERS Report of Liz Treacy, GMCA Monitoring Officer 6. CONFIRMATION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF DEPUTY MAYOR (TO FOLLOW) 7. GM FIRE &RESCUE SERVICE - FIRE PLAN (TO FOLLOW) BOLTON MANCHESTER ROCHDALE STOCKPORT TRAFFORD BURY OLDHAM SALFORD TAMESIDE WIGAN Please note that this meeting will be livestreamed via www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk, please speak to a Governance Officer before the meeting should you not wish to consent to being included in this recording. For copies of papers and further information on this meeting please refer to the website www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk. Alternatively, contact the following Governance & Scrutiny Officer: Steve Annette [email protected] This agenda was issued on 6 May 2021 behalf of Julie Connor, Secretary to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Broadhurst House, 56 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6EU 2 POLICE FIRE AND CRIME PANEL – 14 MAY 2021 Declaration of Councillors’ Interests in Items Appearing on the Agenda NAME: ______________________________ DATE: _______________________________ Minute Item No. / Agenda Item No. Nature of Interest Type of Interest Personal / Prejudicial / Disclosable Pecuniary Personal / Prejudicial / Disclosable Pecuniary Page 1 Personal / Prejudicial / Disclosable Pecuniary Personal / Prejudicial / Disclosable Pecuniary Personal / Prejudicial / Disclosable Pecuniary Agenda Item 3 Personal / Prejudicial / Disclosable Pecuniary Please see overleaf for a quick guide to declaring interests at meetings. 1 QUICK GUIDE TO DECLARING INTERESTS AT MEETINGS This is a summary of the rules around declaring interests at meetings. It does not replace the Member’s Code of Conduct, the full description can be found in the GMCA’s constitution Part 7A. Your personal interests must be registered on the GMCA’s Annual Register within 28 days of your appointment onto a GMCA committee and any changes to these interests must notified within 28 days. Personal interests that should be on the register include: Bodies to which you have been appointed by the GMCA Your membership of bodies exercising functions of a public nature, including charities, societies, political parties or trade unions. You are also legally bound to disclose the following information called DISCLOSABLE PERSONAL INTERESTS which includes: You, and your partner’s business interests (eg employment, trade, profession, contracts, or any company with which you are associated) You and your partner’s wider financial interests (eg trust funds, investments, and assets including land and property). Any sponsorship you receive. FAILURE TO DISCLOSE THIS INFORMATION IS A CRIMINAL OFFENCE Page 2 STEP ONE: ESTABLISH WHETHER YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN THE BUSINESS OF THE AGENDA If the answer to that question is ‘No’ – then that is the end of the matter. If the answer is ‘Yes’ or Very Likely’ then you must go on to consider if that personal interest can be construed as being a prejudicial interest. STEP TWO: DETERMINING IF YOUR INTEREST PREJUDICIAL? A personal interest becomes a prejudicial interest: where the well being, or financial position of you, your partner, members of your family, or people with whom you have a close association (people who are more than just an acquaintance) are likely to be affected by the business of the meeting more than it would affect most people in the area. the interest is one which a member of the public with knowledge of the relevant facts would reasonably regard as so significant that it is likely to prejudice your judgement of the public interest. FOR A NON PREJUDICIAL INTEREST FOR PREJUDICIAL INTERESTS YOU MUST YOU MUST Notify the governance officer for the meeting as soon as you realise Notify the governance officer for the meeting as soon as you realise you have an interest you have a prejudicial interest (before or during the meeting) Inform the meeting that you have a personal interest and the nature Inform the meeting that you have a prejudicial interest and the of the interest nature of the interest Fill in the declarations of interest form Fill in the declarations of interest form TO NOTE: Leave the meeting while that item of business is discussed 2 You may remain in the room and speak and vote on the matter Make sure the interest is recorded on your annual register of If your interest relates to a body to which the GMCA has appointed interests form if it relates to you or your partner’s business or you to you only have to inform the meeting of that interest if you financial affairs. If it is not on the Register update it within 28 days speak on the matter. of the interest becoming apparent. YOU MUST NOT: participate in any discussion of the business at the meeting, or if you become aware of your disclosable pecuniary interest during the meeting participate further in any discussion of the business, participate in any vote or further vote taken on the matter at the meeting Page 3 3 This page is intentionally left blank Agenda Item 4 GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE FIRE AND CRIME PANEL Date: 14 May 2021 Subject: Report and recommendations to the Mayor for Greater Manchester on the Appointment of Stephen Watson as Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police Report of: Councillor Nigel Murphy, Chair, Police Fire and Crime Panel and Eamonn Boylan, GMCA, Chief Executive PURPOSE OF REPORT: This document constitutes the report and recommendations of the Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel in respect of the proposed appointment of Stephen Watson as Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, and is submitted to the Mayor for Greater Manchester in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 8 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (the Act). RECOMMENDATION: That the appointment of Stephen Watson to the post of Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police, on a five-year fixed term appointment, and at a salary of £204,372 (in line with Police Remuneration and Review Body), be confirmed. CONTACT OFFICERS: Councillor Nigel Murphy, Chair, Police Fire and Crime Panel [email protected] Eamonn Boylan, GMCA, Chief Executive [email protected] Page 5 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1.1 This document constitutes the report and recommendations of the Greater Manchester Police, Fire and Crime Panel in respect of the proposed appointment of Stephen Watson as Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, and is submitted to the Mayor for Greater Manchester in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 8 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (the Act). 1.2 The report recommends that Stephen Watson be appointed Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police. 1.3 In submitting it’s report, the Panel would like to thank Stephen Watson for his attendance at the confirmation hearing and to congratulate him on his appointment. 2. CONFIRMATION HEARING 2.1 On Friday 26 March 2021, the Clerk to the Panel received the PCC’s formal notification of Stephen Watson’s proposed appointment. By law, the Panel is required to hold a confirmation hearing (a meeting of the Panel held in public at which the candidate for appointment is requested to appear for the purpose of answering questions relating to the appointment) in sufficient time to enable it to submit it’s report and recommendations in respect of the appointment to the GM Mayor within 3 weeks of the day on which it received notification. 2.2 The confirmation hearing was a live-streamed event held at 3.00 p.m. on Friday 26 March 2021.The following Panel Members were present: - Councillor Nigel Murphy (Chair), Manchester City Council Councillor Nasim Muslim, Bolton Council Councillor Richard Gold, Bury Council Councillor Steve Williams, Oldham Council Councillor Janet Emsley, Rochdale Council Councillor David Lancaster, Salford Council Councillor Amanda Peers, Stockport Council Councillor Alison Gwynne, Tameside Council Councillor Graham Whitham, Trafford Council Councillor Kevin Anderson, Wigan Council Angela Lawrence and Maqsood Ahmad, Independent Members The GM Mayor, Andy Burnham and GM Deputy Mayor, Baroness Hughes were also present. 2.3 The following officers were also present to support the Panel in conducting the hearing: - Eamonn Boylan, Chief Executive, GMCA Steve Wilson, GMCA Treasurer Kevin Lee, Director of the Mayor’s Office Gwynne Williams, Deputy Monitoring Officer, GMCA Clare Monaghan, Director Police, Fire and Criminal Justice, GMCA Page 6 Steve Annette, Governance and Scrutiny Officer, GMCA Lee Teasdale, Governance and Scrutiny Officer, GMCA Jimmy Smallwood, Senior Media Manager, GMCA Sarah Keaveny, Head of Communications, GMCA Neil Evans, Police, Crime, Criminal Justice and Fire Team 2.4 The GM Mayor and GM Deputy Mayor referred to the personal qualities and wide experience that Stephen Watson brought to the role and the key challenges that lay ahead in addressing and responding to (a) the failings and criticisms highlighted in the recent HMIC report; (b) the imperative of resolving technical impediments that currently prevented iOPS from enabling GMP to be the Force it should be; (c) the further development of neighbourhood policing initiatives, and (d) the need to re-set police services to meet both the diverse needs of the City Region and the increasingly sophisticated nature of some areas of criminality, and to be victim focussed in all of its endeavours.