Recommendation AG-1: National Register of Armed Policing Recommendations
From The Anthony Grainger Inquiry Report into the Death of Anthony Grainger, published 11 July 2019.
Recommendation
A national policing body should manage a national register of recommendations relating to armed policing, and the response to such recommendations, arising from Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) reports, prevention of future death reports made in the course of inquests, and statutory inquiries concerning fatal police shootings.
In brief (written by this site)
In a June 2020 parliamentary answer, Minister of State Kit Malthouse stated that the National Armed Policing lead would hold the register of recommendations on behalf of the National Police Chiefs' Council, managed through an organisational learning board that includes the College of Policing (Kit Malthouse, Jun 2020). The Home Office previously reported in May 2020 that a structured organisational learning process incorporating lessons from statutory inquiries, inquests, and conduct reports had been introduced, with the portfolio responsible for continuing to embed and monitor it (Home Office response, May 2020; Home Office, May 2020).
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Government response
11. Under the leadership of Chief Constable of Civil Nuclear Constabulary, Simon Chesterman, the National Armed Policing Portfolio Lead (NAPP) has introduced a structured Organisational Learning Process. It incorporates lessons identified from IOPC reports, from Inquests' prevention of future death reports statutory inquiries concerning fatal police shootings and, where relevant, operational debriefs, reviews and exercises. The Process links to the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP) and Counter Terrorism Organisational Learning Processes. Revised guidance for Armed Policing Strategic Threat and Risk Assessments (APSTRAs) will include the requirement for Chief Officers to be accountable for organisational learning processes. 12. The National Armed Policing Portfolio will be responsible for continuing to embed and monitor this process.
How this response relates to the recommendation
Site note: These are the Home Office's words, from the government's response of 19 May 2020, which sets out "the actions committed to by the organisations to whom Anthony Grainger Inquiry recommendations were addressed". This recommendation is addressed to the National Police Chiefs' Council; the passage is the Home Office's account of work led by the National Armed Policing Portfolio Lead, not that body's own statement.
Delivery
Home Office says in progress (9 June 2020)
The National Armed Policing lead will hold the register of recommendations on behalf of National Police Chiefs Council. The College of Policing is represented on the organisational learning board, introduced by the NPCC lead for armed policing, which manages the national register for all recommendations. This will ensure that the learning identified can be quickly reflected in the College’s authorised professional practice (APP) and national police firearms training curriculum (NPFTC).
Earlier statement on delivery (1)
Home Office (19 May 2020)
11. Under the leadership of Chief Constable of Civil Nuclear Constabulary, Simon Chesterman, the National Armed Policing Portfolio Lead (NAPP) has introduced a structured Organisational Learning Process. It incorporates lessons identified from IOPC reports, from Inquests’ prevention of future death reports statutory inquiries concerning fatal police shootings and, where relevant, operational debriefs, reviews and exercises. The Process links to the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Principles (JESIP) and Counter Terrorism Organisational Learning Processes. Revised guidance for Armed Policing Strategic Threat and Risk Assessments (APSTRAs) will include the requirement for Chief Officers to be accountable for organisational learning processes.
12. The National Armed Policing Portfolio will be responsible for continuing to embed and monitor this process.
From: Government response to the Anthony Grainger public inquiry (accessible version)
Site note: These are the Home Office's words, from the government's response of 19 May 2020, which sets out "the actions committed to by the organisations to whom Anthony Grainger Inquiry recommendations were addressed". This recommendation is addressed to the National Police Chiefs' Council; the passage is the Home Office's account of work led by the National Armed Policing Portfolio Lead, not that body's own statement.
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- Home Office
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