Member resources
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PCC and Chief Constable Accountability Guidance: A Good Practice Guide
This guide provides best practices for effective collaboration and accountability between Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) and Chief Constables, supporting clear roles, transparency, and performance management. It offers practical principles, case studies, and dispute resolution strategies to strengthen governance and public accountability.
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Mediation Framework for Chief Constables and Police and Crime Commissioners (including PFCCs and other local policing governance bodies
This document outlines a Mediation Framework for resolving disputes through an independent, structured, and confidential process. It provides guidance on when mediation is appropriate, the role of mediators, and a three-stage process to facilitate constructive resolutions while avoiding costly legal conflicts.
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Police workforce
The APCC works together with partners and stakeholders in policing to strengthen the relationship between commissioners and chiefs, and to increase the flow of talent into the chief officer ranks. We are also involved in both the pay review body process for determining police officer pay and the Police Staff Council, the body that negotiates the pay of the majority of police staff in England and Wales.
With the vast majority of the £19 billion Police Funding Settlement spent on employing the 250,000+ members of the police workforce in England and Wales, it is clear why PCCs are interested in every element of the recruitment, learning and development and retention of the police workforce.
PCCs have a particular interest in the role of chief constable given their responsibility in appointing chief constables and the operational leadership that chief constables provide.
PCCs are represented on the Police Covenant Oversight Board and work with the National Police Wellbeing Service to improve the wellbeing offer to the workforce and to hold chief constables to account for their duty of care to the workforce.
Portfolio leads
Joint lead
Matthew Scott
Police and Crime Commissioner for Kent
Joint lead
Sarah Taylor
Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk
APCC contact
Andy Treymayne
Policy Manager