Chair and Commissioners
The Chair
The duties of the Chair are currently being covered by Deputy Chair Len Jackson.
He has responsibility for ensuring the Commission meets its statutory responsibilities as a public body and is accountable to the Home Secretary.
Commission
The Commission is the governing board of the IPCC. It holds collective responsibility for governance of the Commission including oversight of the Executive.
As public office holders, operational Commissioners oversee and take ultimate responsibility for IPCC investigations, casework and the promotion of public confidence in the complaints system (known as guardianship).
Operational Commissioners, in making decisions on individual cases, act under the delegated authority of the Commission.
All appointments, which are full time and non-executive, were made through an open competition. The IPCC also has two part time non-executive Commissioners. They are responsible for providing objective scrutiny and taking responsibility for those areas in which full time Commissioners, because of their operational role, might have a conflict of interest.
By law, no member of the Commission may have served as a police officer.
Commissioners
All Commissioners (including Deputy Chairs) are appointed by the Home Secretary.
The Deputy Chairs have policy and casework responsibilities. Operational Commissioners work from one of the IPCC offices in England and Wales and hold prime responsibility for designated police forces and other agencies subject to IPCC oversight.
Additionally, many Commissioners act as policy champions on specific issues/topics.
Commissioners’ Code of Conduct
The Commissioners Code of Conduct provides that Commissioners should declare any personal or business interest that may influence judgement or appear to influence judgement.
It also provides that the Commissioners’ register of interests should be open to the public and kept up to date.
Other areas of interest may include:
Commissioner biographies can be found in the related topics below.
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Related topics
Chair: Duties currently being covered by Len Jackson
Deputy Chairs: Deborah Glass, Len Jackson
Central office (Forces: West Midlands, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, West Mercia, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge University, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex) Len Jackson, Amerdeep Somal and Rachel Cerfontyne
Wales and South West office (Forces: North Wales, Dyfed Powys, South Wales, Gwent and Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Dorset, Avon and Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, British Transport Police, HMRC and SOCA) Tom Davies and Rebecca Marsh
North office (Forces: Northumbria, Durham, Cleveland, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Humberside, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Port of Liverpool, Lancashire, Cheshire and UKBA) Nicholas Long and Naseem Malik
London and South East office (Forces: Thames Valley, Hampshire, Surrey. Sussex, Kent, MPS and City of London) Mike Franklin and Deborah Glass
Non-Executive Commissioners (non-operational): Jonathan Tross and Ruth Evans
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