Overview Functions of Elected Local Policing Authorities Section 11: Information for public etc.
87.Section 11 imposes obligations on a police and crime commissioner and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime in relation to the publication of information.
88.Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to specify by order information which a police and crime commissioner and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime must publish, and also to specify the time and manner of publication. It is anticipated that this power will be used to ensure the publication of standard information as to numbers of staff and the rates of their pay, items of expenditure above a specified monetary limit, and any gifts or loans received.
89.Subsection (3) requires a police and crime commissioner and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime to publish such further information as is necessary to allow local people to assess the performance of the body itself and also that of the chief officer of police for the police area (either the chief constable or, in the metropolitan police district, the Commissioner).