WATCH: July’s Public Accountability Meeting

Meeting overview

This month’s meeting focuses on:

• North Yorkshire Police – Domestic abuse – the effect of the Covid19 pandemic
  To explore the effects that lockdown had on domestic abuse. To hear how North Yorkshire Police and partner agencies coped with the increase in demand for domestic abuse services and the strategy that has been put in place to cope with future demand on services.
• North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service – Training
  To explore the compliance of training, to National Occupational Guidance and National Fire Standards, and to hear about the training facilities available to North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, to ensure that training and facilities are fit for a modern fire service.

Ask your question on this month’s hot topics

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.

Attendees

• Chair – Philip Allott – North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner 
• Lisa Winward – Chief Constable, North Yorkshire Police 
• Jonathan Foster – NYFRS Deputy Chief Fire Officer 
• Thomas Thorp – Interim Assistant Chief Executive, OPFCC 
• Caroline Blackburn – Interim Assistant Chief Executive, OPFCC 
• Jenni Newberry – Head of Commissioning & Partnerships, OPFCC 
• Phil Cain – NYP Deputy Chief Constable 
• Lindsey Butterfield – NYP Assistant Chief Constable 
• Allan Harder – NYP Detective Superintendent  
• Stuart Simpson – NYFRS Operational Training Manager 

Police

Thematic presentation:

• Allan Harder, Detective Superintendent
• Jenni Newberry, Head of Commissioning and Partnerships

Performance update:

• Lindsey Butterfield, Assistant Chief Constable

Fire

Thematic presentation:

• Stuart Simpson, Operational Training Manager 

Performance update:

• Jonathan Foster, Deputy Chief Fire Officer 

Agenda

No	Time	Item	Lead
1	13:30	Attendance and introductions	Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
2	13:32	Actions from previous meeting: Update on Op Chrome 101 call response	All
3	13:42	Public questions	Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
4 + 5	13:50	Domestic Abuse – the effect of Covid 19 Pandemic Presentation and  Impact of COVID-19 on commissioned Domestic Abuse support services Presentation	Police and Commissioning and Partnerships
6	14:35	Performance update	Police
7	15:05	Training Presentation	Fire
8	15:35	Performance update	Fire
9	15:50	Public questions	Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
10	15:55	Any other business	All
11	16:00	Tuesday 31st August	2021

Meeting papers

• 4. COVID Domestic Abuse Presentation – Police
• 5. Commissioned DA Support Services – COVID-19 Impact Presentation
• 6. Performance Report Police – Operational & FCR Final – June 2021
• 7. Training Presentation – Fire
• 8. NYFRS – Performance Update – July 2021

Public questions

• • Gwen Swinburn
    Please can you address your use of suspects ethnicity in communications so as not to discriminate in favour of non-white suspects to the detriment of white suspects – please address this through an open review of your communications and equalities policies.

 

• • Tim Cook
    On 2 May 2020, the PM announced that there would be an additional of £76 million for victims of domestic
    abuse due to lockdowns. How much did North Yorkshire receive, when was the start of the money being
    handed out to end organisations, and when did it complete ?In July 2020 the then PFCC commissioned IDAS to produce a report on the Family Court system and domestic
    abuse
    (Domestic Abuse The Family Court.pdf (northyorkshirepfcc.gov.uk) https://www.northyorkshire
    pfcc.gov.uk/content/uploads/2020/03/Domestic Abuse The Family Court.pdf Given the changes in the country
    generally, does that report need to be revisited or a more robust set of actions taken from it ?

 

• • James Monaghan
    I would like to report the problem of hearing noisy cars and witnessing cars driving through red lights at the
    York Place/Gracious Street junction in Knaresborough. Living in the centre of Knaresborough we hear the
    problem a lot and tend to continue to hear for up to 30 seconds after they’ve driven off!