Community Scrutiny Panel Members

Overview

In this role you join a Community Scrutiny Group to help ensure policing reflects local needs. You will collaborate with volunteers to review police activity and provide feedback to officers. Your insights will help make policing more transparent and locally responsive. You’ll engage in questioning, share experiences, and contribute to recommendations that shape local policing. This is a meaningful volunteer opportunity to strengthen community voices in policing oversight.

Pay / Benefits

• Voluntary role
• Reasonable travel expenses reimbursed

Responsibilities

• Review police data and information
• Assess how police powers (e.g., stop and search, use of force) are used
• Review Body Worn Video footage where appropriate
• Ask questions and provide constructive challenge
• Share views and experiences
• Make recommendations to improve local policing

Key requirements

• 18 or over
• Live, work or study in the borough you wish to represent
• Willing to adhere to confidentiality requirements and group agreements
• Excludes staff of MPS/MOPAC, existing Independent Advisory Groups, and elected political office

• strong community connections
• constructive questioning
• clear communication
• data review and analysis
• review of video footage

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