Weekly Media Monitor summary
IN THE NEWS: Our Weekly Review, drawing on our popular Media Monitor database, picks up the key news stories and reports of the week, and explains why they matter to you.
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Live Blog at the fifth annual Police and Crime Panel conference
NEWS: Taking place in Birmingham on Thursday, 20th October 2016, this is the fifth national Police and Crime Panel conference, organised by Frontline Consulting and sponsored by Grant Thornton. Bernard Rix, CoPaCC's Chief Executive, provides a LiveBlog
2016 “PCC Transparency” Quality Mark: Committee on Standards in Public Life and Grant Thornton support once again
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11th October 2016
11th October 2016
NEWS: CoPaCC's annual review to determine how well PCCs' Offices are meeting their statutory responsibilities on transparency is well under way. This year's Quality Mark presentations will take place on Monday, 28th November, with support again from the Committee on Standards in Public Life and leading police auditor Grant Thornton.
Connecting up: Lancashire first force to go live with Northgate’s CONNECT platform
NEWS: Lancashire has become the first police force to go live with a force-specific instance of CONNECT, Northgate Public Services' new software platform. The move has seen Lancashire over a million legacy cases, five million associated files and 10,000 live case files.
Next generation: Social media and community policing from a European perspective
NEWS: A unique conference in Munich later this month - with attendance free - showcases research on social media and community policing across Europe for the first time. Lindsey Gunby of West Yorkshire for Innovation, the organisers of the conference, talks about the projects and their potential for technology to help transform community policing.
