Agreement for the Establishment of a Joint Committee for Policing in Wales
1. BACKGROUND
1.1 This agreement is made between the Police Authorities of Dyfed-Powys, Gwent, North Wales and South Wales (the “Police Authorities”).
1.2 The Police Authorities have formed an unincorporated association known as the Police Authorities of Wales (“PAW”) and since (Date) representatives of the Police Authorities have met to discuss and further matters of mutual interest.
1.3 The Police Authorities’ respective Chief Constables (“the Chief Constables”) have likewise met for a number of years to discuss matters of mutual interest and have collaborated on the joint provision of policing services in the interests of efficiency and effectiveness of the policing service.
1.4 It is the wish of the Police Authorities and the Chief Constables that collaboration on the joint provision of both operational and support services should continue and develop wherever possible and that suitable administrative, management and governance arrangements should be put in place.
1.5 The Police Authorities and the Chief Constables have agreed to establish a Wales Policing Board (“the Board”).
1.6 The Police Authorities have agreed to establish PAW as a statutory joint committee which may, as appropriate, give formal approval on behalf of partner authorities to recommendations from the Board and to amend and formalise the constitution and main aims of PAW in accordance with this agreement which sets out how PAW and the Board will operate and how legally binding decisions will be made.
1.7 The various arrangements referred to above and elsewhere in this agreement are shown by means of the diagram in Appendix A.