Public accountability meeting

The formal meeting that performs this important role is the monthly Public accountability meeting.

The meeting is made up from members of the Executive Board, other Chief Officers and Heads of Department. It supported by performance and change management / planning staff.

The Commissioner, Chief Constable and Chief Fire Officer chair the meeting jointly because they all expect their services to be performing at its best and all have a role in ensuring actions are delivered by the teams reporting into them.

Jointly chairing the meeting also embeds their philosophy of working in close partnership.

Output of the Public accountability meeting is provided to the Police, Fire and Crime Panel for North Yorkshire on a quarterly basis.

Following these meetings, the Commissioner, Chief Constable and Chief Fire officer will publish monthly reports detailing the performance of North Yorkshire Police and North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Performance reports are available from October 2013 for North Yorkshire Police and from 26 February for North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Meeting dates

• January – No meeting
• 26 February
  Fire – Older people
  Police – Older people
• 26 March
  Fire – Health and safety in the workplace
  Police – Cross border crime and automatic number plate recognition
• 30 April
  Fire – National resilience and major incident preparedness
  Police – Female offenders
• 28 May
  Fire – Equality, diversity and inclusion
  Police – Custody, arrests and voluntary attendees
• 25 June
  Fire – mental health
  Police – Mental health
• 30 July
  Fire – Protection and business safety
  Police – Investigation hubs and the serious crime team
• 27 August
  Fire – Special services
  Police – Use of force and stop and search
• 24 September
  Fire – Safe and Well checks
  Police – Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
• 29 October
  Fire – On-call firefighters
  Police – Domestic abuse
• 26 November
  Fire service and police service collaboration

To ask the Board a question

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 info@northyorkshire-pfcc.gov.uk before midday of the Friday preceding 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