Watchdog role |
comprehensive monitoring on the way in which efficiency, effectiveness and coordination are achieved and how fundamental rights and freedoms are respected and actively promoted |
The need to handle a large number of complaints and individual reports of police misconduct has a major impact on Committee P's workload. As a result, the legislature has explicitly encouraged the Committee to shift the focus of its activities back onto its core responsibilities and tasks, namely safeguarding citizens' constitutional rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as seeing to the coordination, effectiveness and efficiency of police forces and officials with policing powers.
Committee P aims to use its watchdog role to carry out this mission to the best possible effect for the benefit of the legislative and executive branches and the judiciary as well as the various police chiefs.
In addition to drawing on its internal expertise, Committee P may call on external experts where appropriate. The process of developing the overall picture is both proactive and reactive, being performed on Committee P's own initiative and on request. In as far as possible, it decides as soon as it can on strengths, areas for improvement and problems.
Committee P accomplishes this mission by means of the following activities:
The legislature has provided Committee P with a number of means for it to perform its overall monitoring mission, meaning that it has various tools of its own or external tools at its disposal. These are detailed below.
Committee P aims to use its watchdog role to carry out this mission to the best possible effect for the benefit of the legislative and executive branches and the judiciary as well as the various police chiefs.
In addition to drawing on its internal expertise, Committee P may call on external experts where appropriate. The process of developing the overall picture is both proactive and reactive, being performed on Committee P's own initiative and on request. In as far as possible, it decides as soon as it can on strengths, areas for improvement and problems.
Committee P accomplishes this mission by means of the following activities:
- collecting and recording information;
- performing on-the-ground investigations and making analyses;
- structural aspects are also extrapolated from the examination of individual complaints as they can play a role in improving the functioning of the police in general;
- disseminating its conclusions, including through publications;
- issuing short-, medium- and long-term recommendations and opinions, in line with the early-warning principle or not as the case may be;
- following up on the recommendations.
The legislature has provided Committee P with a number of means for it to perform its overall monitoring mission, meaning that it has various tools of its own or external tools at its disposal. These are detailed below.