We are strongly committed to increasing transparency and accountability in arrangements for local policing, from giving local communities a better opportunity to shape local policing priorities and the response to those priorities through the roll-out of neighbourhood policing, to our plans to provide every community with monthly crime information for their local area.
We want to build further on this progress, and that is why we asked Sir Ronnie Flanagan to look specifically at how local accountability arrangements could be strengthened as part of his Independent Review of Policing, the final report of which we look forward to in the new year.