Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill (Programme) (No. 2)

Is not one limitation of existing case law that an individual litigant—or a company such as International Trader's Ferry—trying to get the chief constable to do something is different from the relationship that the Minister describes between the police authority and its statutory powers and the chief constable? The Home Affairs Committee heard from witnesses who felt that there is significant scope within the existing regime for police authorities to be more assertive in setting policy—it just happens that they have not done so.