Explanatory note

The Crime and Disorder (Formulation and Implementation of Strategy) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”) provide for the formulation and implementation, by the responsible authorities in a local government area, of strategies for the reduction of re-offending and crime and disorder and for combating substance misuse. Regulation 9 provides for the preparation of a community safety agreement by the county strategy group formed by the responsible authorities in a county area under regulation 8. Regulation 10 provides for the preparation of a partnership plan by the strategy group formed by the responsible authorities in a local government area under regulation 3.

These Regulations insert new provision into the 2007 Regulations requiring the county strategy group to send a copy of the community safety agreement to the elected local policing body in whose police area the county is to be found. Provision is also inserted requiring the strategy group for every local government area except the City of London to send a copy of the partnership plan to the elected local policing body in whose police area the group’s local government area is to be found. The elected local policing body for a police area outside London is the police and crime commissioner; in the metropolitan police district, it is the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

These Regulations also insert new provision into the 2007 Regulations allowing a police and crime commissioner to require representatives of the responsible authorities to attend a force level meeting to assist in the formulation and implementation of strategies.