Collaboration

Back to Further information about Police and crime commissioners PCCs and chief constables will have strong reciprocal duties to collaborate with their equivalents in other force areas where it is in the interests of efficiency or effectiveness.

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• Will PCCs be able to collaborate?

  PCCs will be able to take part in collaboration agreements, as police authorities currently can, but there will no longer be a requirement for these to form separate agreements from those between their chief constables.

  Other bodies (such as local authorities) will also be able to be part of collaboration agreements. PCCs will be required to make joint arrangements for holding chief constables to account under collaboration agreements.

• What will happen to existing collaborations?

  They will transfer from the police authority to the PCC. PCCs and forces will be required to take account of existing collaboration arrangements, consistency of approach and scale of opportunity when making collaboration decisions.

  Collaboration agreements will enable a more flexible use of warrantry and powers of designated police staff between collaborating forces. Health and safety responsibilities will now transfer with direction and control.

  Home Secretary no longer required to be notified for collaborations of more than six forces/PCCs.