{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-protocol-order-2023/schedule/paragraph-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-protocol-order-2023/schedule/paragraph-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/649",
  "legislation_title": "The Policing Protocol Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-protocol-order-2023",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "The Panel",
  "text": "The Panel provides checks and balances in relation to the performance of the PCC. The Panel does not scrutinise the Chief Constable – it scrutinises the PCC’s exercise of their statutory functions. While the Panel is there to challenge the PCC, it must also exercise its functions with a view to supporting the effective exercise of the PCC’s functions. This includes—\n(a) the power of veto (outside the Metropolitan Police District), by a two-thirds majority of the total Panel membership, over the level of the PCC’s proposed precept;\n(b) the power of veto (outside the Metropolitan Police District), by a two-thirds majority of the total Panel membership, over the PCC’s proposed candidate for Chief Constable;\n(c) the power to ask His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (“HMICFRS”) for a professional view when the PCC intends to dismiss a Chief Constable;\n(d) the power to review the draft Plan and make recommendations to the PCC who must have regard to them;\n(e) the power to review the PCC’s Annual Report and make reports and recommendations at a public meeting, which the PCC must attend;\n(f) the power to require relevant reports and information in the PCC’s possession (except those which are operationally sensitive) to enable them to fulfil their statutory obligations;\n(g) the power to require the PCC to attend the Panel to answer questions;\n(h) the power (outside the Metropolitan Police District) to appoint an acting Police and Crime Commissioner where the incumbent PCC is incapacitated, resigns or is disqualified, and\n(i) responsibility for complaints about a PCC, although serious complaints and conduct matters must be passed to the IOPC in line with legislation.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. modified (20.12.2023) by The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1432), arts. 1(2), 33(2), Sch. 5 para. 59(2)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 24 modified (20.12.2023) by The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1432), arts. 1(2), 33(2), Sch. 5 para. 59(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 24 in force at 3.7.2023, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/649/schedule/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:44:12.646496+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}