Meeting Details

In terms of Standing Order 20 and the Councillors' Code of Conduct, there were no declarations from Group Leaders of Spokespersons in regards to any prior decisions taken on how Members will vote on any item on the agenda or any declarations of Member's interests in respect of any item on the agenda.

The meeting resolved that in terms of Section 50A (4) and (5) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, as amended, the public and media representatives be excluded from the meeting during consideration of the items of business appearing at the relevant paragraphs of this minute as specified below, so as to avoid disclosure of exempt information of the class described in the appropriate paragraphs of Part 1 of Schedule 7A of the Act.

The Committee noted that no written questions had been submitted.

The Minute of the meeting of the Police and Fire and Rescue Services Committee dated 22 August 2019 was submitted and approved.

Under reference to paragraph 5 of the Minute of the meeting dated 23 November 2017 a report by Local Senior Officer Martin Tait, Aberdeenshire & Moray Scottish Fire and Rescue Service informed the Committee of the performance undertaken by Scottish Fire and Rescue locally and in respect of the Moray Local Fire and Rescue Plan 2017-20.

Councillor Divers was of the opinion that figures for unwanted fire alarm signals had plateaued and sought clarification on how numbers compared with 10 to 15 years ago.

In response Mr Nicoll advised he didn't have the figures to had but could provide information to the next meeting.

Thereafter the Chair requested a thematic report to the next Committee on unwanted fire alarm signals including information on the equipment used and steps being taken to improve numbers.

As no one was otherwise minded Mr Nicoll undertook to present a thematic report on unwanted fire alarm signals to the next meeting of the Committee.

Thereafter the Committee agreed to:

1. note performance outlined in the report applicable to annual performance for 1 April 2019 to 31 October 2019; and
   
   
2. seek a report on equipment used and steps taken to reduce the number of unwanted fire alarm signals.

A verbal report by Chief Superintendent Campbell Thomson provided Committee with an update on Police Performance.

Following consideration the Committee agreed to note the informative verbal performance update from Police Scotland.

A report by Chief Superintendent Campbell Thomson informed Committee about Rural Crime.

Following consideration the Committee agreed to note the information provided in the report in relation to Rural Crime.

There were no questions raised.

The meeting was chaired by Councillor Coy.