Working Together (Partnerships and Collaboration)
Association of Police and Crime Commissioners
The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (APCC) is the national body that supports Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs), and other local policing bodies across England and Wales, to provide national leadership and drive strategic change in the policing, criminal justice and wider community safety landscape, to help keep our communities safe.
As of 2026, the APCC membership consists of all 37 PCCs, Police, Fire and Crime Commissioners (PFCCs), Deputy Mayors and Mayors with responsibility for policing and crime are members of the APCC, as well as; City of London Police Authority; the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime for the Greater London Authority; the Greater Manchester Combined Authority; the West Yorkshire Combined Authority; the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority; the South Yorkshire Combined Authority; Jersey Police Authority; British Transport Police Authority; Civil Nuclear Police Authority; the Ministry of Defence Police Committee and the Scottish Police Authority.
The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners has a portfolio approach in which Police and Crime Commissioners are given the responsibility to lead on policy development in portfolio areas.
Our Chair of the Police Authority Board is the Deputy Lead for the Fraud Portfolio and we also currently represent the other police authorities on the APCC Board of Directors.
In November 2025, Minister of State for Policing and Crime announced proposed reforms to policing governance in England. These reforms include plans to abolish the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) model at the end of the current term in 2028.
Under the proposals, police governance functions would transfer to Mayors of Strategic Authorities wherever possible. Where this is not feasible, these functions would transfer to elected local council leaders.
In areas where it is not possible to transfer PCC functions to Mayors during this Parliament, the Home Secretary has confirmed that new local Policing and Crime Boards will be established. These Boards will bring together local government leaders to oversee policing within their force area. Membership will consist of the leaders of local authorities within the force area, supplemented by up to two co-opted members. Each Board will be supported by a Policing and Crime Lead, similar in function to a Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, who will carry out day-to-day responsibilities on the Board’s behalf.
These proposed reforms will not affect the governance arrangements for the City of London Police, where the Court of Common Council remains the police authority, with its functions delegated to the Police Authority Board. Further information is available at: Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped - GOV.UK
The Association of Policing and Crime Chief Executives (APACE)
The Association of Policing and Crime Chief Executives (APACE) is the professional body which represents Chief Executives and other senior staff within Offices of Police and Crime Commissioners, other Police Authorities and the City of London Police Authority.
Safer City Partnership (SCP)
Whilst not a Committee of the Board, the Safer City Partnership (SCP) brings together a range of agencies, including the City of London Police, the City of London Corporation, London Probation, Clinical Commissioning Group, London Fire Brigade and others who have a key role to play in reducing and preventing crime and disorder. It has a number of statutory duties, including the production of a strategy to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in the local area.
One of the most valuable aspects of the SCP is its ability and potential to tap in to the wide range of powers and resources of its partner agencies to help prevent crime and address underlying factors.
The Deputy Chair of the Police Authority Board is the Deputy Chair of the Safer City Partnership Strategy Board.
Collaborative working
Secure City Programme
The Police Authority Board provides oversight of the Secure City Programme (SCP). This is a major programme delivered jointly by the City of London Corporation and the City of London Police. The programme will deliver a state-of-the-art security platform and capability that is commensurate with the needs of modern-day security and services across the City.
City of London Law Courts and Police Accommodation Project
The Police Authority working in collaboration with the City of London Corporation, HM Government and the City of London Police established the Fleet Street Estate Programme in May 2018 to deliver a new headquarters for the City of London Police at 1 Salisbury Square, the City of London Law Courts (an 18-court facility combining Magistrates, Crown and Civil Courts for HM Government) and a commercial building off Fleet Street.