Chair of the Joint Independent Audit Committee for North Yorkshire - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Chair of the Joint Independent Audit Committee for North Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner and North Yorkshire Police

NYP force area

NYP force area  Total mileage of roads: approximately 9,000 km for North Yorkshire and 790km for the City of York  Total population: approximately 600,000 for North Yorkshire and 200,000 City of York

Total personnel in NYP & OPCC as at 28 February 2014:  Police Officers: 1,422  Special Constables: 160  Support Staff: 1,214  OPCC Private Office: 6 (to be 8) • Separate commissioning unit : 4

Organisational Meeting Structure Various Internal Meetings

Joint Independent Audit Committee:  Three members  Other attendees  Four meetings per year  Terms of Reference  High level work programme  Effectiveness to be reviewed in 2014

Experience to date:  JIAC Membership  Management structure change  New Chief Constable appointed June 2013  Staff pressures  2012/13 Accounts and Annual Governance Statement

One to Ones:  Police and Crime Commissioner  Chief Constable  Commissioner’s Chief Executive Officer  Chief Finance Officers  Head of Internal Audit  Lead Director of External Audit

Challenges  Recruiting more JIAC members  Improving JIAC Members knowledge and understanding  Commissioner’s Chief Finance Officer leaving in July 2014  Impact of funding cuts (more later)

Challenges continued  Changing landscape:  Collaborations, Partnerships, Commissioning  Fraud seems to be more prevalent  Transparency agenda v Data Protection  Increasing political and public scrutiny  When is a crime not a crime?

The impact of funding cuts:  Reducing headcount (but not police officers)  Must develop a ‘new’ way of doing things  Risk Management must become ‘part of the way business is done’ – not tacked on at the end  More risks will have to ‘be lived with’  Need for a culture change?

The impact of funding cuts: But be alert to the danger of Internal Audit becoming part of the decision making process – this is management's responsibility.

Audit Committees will need to:  Improve their knowledge of what Commissioners and Forces do  Deepen their understanding of the risks and the potential exposures  Establish how risks are identified, prioritised and managed – and how frequently risks are reviewed  Identify indirect risks and exposures through third parties as collaborations and partnerships increase

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