Policing and Crime Act 2017

Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13)

88 In section 5 (police and crime commissioner to issue police and crime plan) after subsection (5) insert—

“(5A) Subsections (5B) to (5E) apply to a police and crime commissioner for a police area—

(a) which corresponds to the area of a fire and rescue authority created by an order under section 4A, or

(b) within which the area of such a fire and rescue authority falls.

(5B) Subject to subsection (5E), in issuing or varying a police and crime plan, the police and crime commissioner must have regard to—

(a) the current Fire and Rescue National Framework prepared under section 21 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004, and

(b) the last document prepared and published by the fire and rescue authority in accordance with that Framework which sets out the authority’s priorities and objectives, for the period covered by the document, in connection with the discharge of the authority’s functions.

(5C) A police and crime plan which the police and crime commissioner is required to prepare may be prepared jointly by the commissioner and the fire and rescue authority.

(5D) If the police and crime commissioner and the fire and rescue authority prepare a joint police and crime plan, the plan must also set out the fire and rescue authority’s priorities and objectives, for the period of the plan, in connection with the discharge of the authority’s functions.

(5E) Subsection (5B)(b) does not apply to a joint police and crime plan.”