Video Clips: Gloucestershire Police & Crime Panel - Nov 2025

Internal audits are evaluations conducted to assess internal controls, risk management, and operational efficiency and should be aimed at improving processes. I was more than a little concerned about a comment in backing papers. An unhappy auditor makes for a concerned councillor. :(

I've been working for many years around the Scrutiny Panels at the constabulary. I've been perpetually frustrated with my enquiries but continue to work doggedly to seek improvement. And a decade later change is coming, extracting these panels from the constabulary and handing them over to the OPCC. I thought that the recent abolition of the PCC role may scupper these plans.

IT Resilience - Cloud ACT, Resilience and US Big tech. An admission that US Big Tech is entwined into the fabric of the constabulary, not surprising but as a country we need to be developing our own sovereign infrastructure.

Cllr Dean raising the issue of flags, Stonehouse & Stroud Against Racism.

Cllr Hilton very unhappy about members being pulled up for making statements rather than asking questions. Not pleasant behaviour. I wonder if the monitoring officer will have a word?

There was a complaint made about Chris Nelson which was leaked to the press. As a Panel we weren't permitted to discuss it but I made a point. Lessons need to be learnt, I think.