This resource is from the Committees section. This section contains information about the MPA Committee, with meeting agendas, reports and minutes.

Sections available here:

• MPA Full Authority
  • Meeting agendas, reports and minutes
  • Terms of reference

MPA Full Authority

• List of members
  Members of the Full Authority.
• Reports list
  For a complete titles list of all reports presented to the Full Authority.
• Future committee meeting dates
  Advanced notice of all committee meetings.

Meeting agendas, reports and minutes

• 26 June 2008
• 29 May 2008 - AGM
• 24 April 2008
• 27 March 2008
• 28 February 2008
• 31 January 2008

Archive of previous years' meetings

• Archive of previous years' meeting agendas, reports and minutes

Terms of reference

The full Authority has overall responsibility for the discharge of all the powers and duties placed on it and has a statutory duty to ‘maintain an efficient and effective police force’.

Whilst there is an extensive scheme of delegation to the Authority’s committees, the full Authority reserves to itself major policy and financial decisions and other decisions which cannot be delegated. These include:

• approving the annual Policing and Performance Plan.
• approval of the Authority’s budget for submission to the Mayor.
• consideration of the external auditor’s annual management letter and any recommendations made by the Audit Panel.
• receiving the Authority’s annual accounts.
• in accordance with the MPA/MPS protocol on high profile and sensitive cases, to consider those cases which require an Authority decision to settle a claim for compensation. Where time permits, this will be based on a recommendation from the Professional Standards and Complaints Committee.
• the appointment of committees and their membership, including co-opted members (although a committee can delegate some of its responsibilities to a sub-committee and is also responsible for appointing to that sub-committee) ‘approving any changes to Standing Orders.

There is also provision in Standing Orders for the Authority Chair or for any three members to ‘call in’ a committee decision. This has the effect of suspending that decision until the full Authority has had the opportunity to decide whether it wishes to call in the decision and, if it does, whether to confirm or change the committee decision. Standing Order 3.1.2 sets out this process in full.

The following pages on the MPA website are relevant:

• List of members
  Members of the Full Authority.
• Reports list
  For a complete titles list of all reports presented to the Full Authority.
• Future committee meeting dates
  Advanced notice of all committee meetings.
• Archive of previous years' meetings
  Contains information about previous years Metropolitan Police Authority meeting agendas, reports and minutes.
• Terms of reference of the MPA, its committees and sub-committees
• Information on the rights of members of the public to attend meetings
• Map of MPA location