Agenda and minutes

All members were noted to be present.

To enable Members to declare to the meeting any disclosable pecuniary interest they may have in any matter on the agenda for the meeting, where that interest is not already entered in their appointing authority’s register of interests, and any other pecuniary or personal interests in any such matter that Members may wish to consider disclosing

No declarations were made.

To confirm the public minutes from the meeting of the Complaints Sub-Committee held on 9 February 2022.

The public minutes of the previous meeting were agreed as an accurate record.

The Summary of Powers were noted.

With respect to each of the following items, the Sub-Committee is recommended to consider:

That, under the provisions of Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended by the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985, the press and public be excluded from the meeting on the grounds that the report(s) contain or there may otherwise be disclosed information which is defined as exempt in within paragraph 1 (information relating to an individual) or paragraph 2 (information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual) of Part 1 of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972 and that in all the circumstances of the case the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.

Members were asked to consider whether the press and public be excluded from the meeting during the following three items of business, considering whether it was likely, in view of the nature of the business to be transacted or the nature of the proceedings, that if members of the public were present during those items there would be disclosure to them of exempt information within Paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part I of Schedule 12A to the Local Government Act 1972, being information relating to any individual (paragraph 1) or information which is likely to reveal the identity of an individual (2) and, further,  that in all the circumstances of the case, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information.

In respect of items 6, 7 and 8 of the agenda the exclusion was agreed.

To confirm the exempt minutes from the meeting of the Complaints Sub-Committee held on 9 February 2022.

The exempt minutes of the previous meeting were agreed as an accurate record.

(a) To consider a complaint made against the Police and Crime Commissioner for Hampshire.

(b) To consider comments received from the complainant

(c) To consider comments received from the complained against

Members considered a report outlining the complaint, including comments received from the complainant and complained against.

(Summary of an exempt minute)

To review a decision to restrict access in accordance with the Guidance Note on the management of unreasonable complainant behaviour.

Members considered a report outlining the decision to restrict access. Following consideration of the report and its content, Members reached a unanimous determination in respect of the restriction of access.

(Summary of an exempt minute)