Motion A27 Whilst recognising the requirement for an appropriate disciplinary process in the NCA, the NCOA will support members who are subject of discipline and misconduct investigations and proceedings. The NCOA will maintain solid, professional relations with our counterparts in HR in order to negotiate our position on behalf of our members. Recent internal investigations and misconduct processes have highlighted a fragmented inconsistent approach by the NCA when dealing with NCOA members in all aspects of the disciplinary process including disclosure, interviews, timescales, panel formats and ultimately case disposal decisions. This is perceived as being unfair, is contrary to ACAS guidelines NCA policy and values. The NCOA are requested to engage with the NCA at strategic level and seek further review of the misconduct process and to evaluate the effectiveness of the current process in comparison to our colleagues in other law enforcement agencies. The NCOA are requested to form a Discipline and Misconduct working who will monitor and assess all NCA misconduct investigations involving NCOA members with a view to considering conviction/dismissal rates and to actively engage with the employer to ensure fairness in proceedings and consistency of approach. The NCOA will seek via the NCOA Discipline and Misconduct working group to influence agency activity in this regard and the provision of best practice to maintain confidence in the process, transparency and fairness. MW&W Motion A28 The agency utilises numerous systems to record duty times, overtime and expenses. This is inefficient in terms of time and cost. These different systems record duty times differently. For example Duty sheet works to a system of 7.5 hours Monday to Thursday with 7 hours on a Friday (agreed by investigations). Resource Link defaults to 7.4 hours per day (although this can be overridden). In addition to these two there are also others used in various departments.
Motion A27 Whilst recognising the requirement for an appropriate disciplinary process in the NCA, the NCOA will support members who are subject of discipline and misconduct investigations and proceedings. The NCOA will maintain solid, professional relations with our counterparts in HR in order to negotiate our position on behalf of our members. Recent internal investigations and misconduct processes have highlighted a fragmented inconsistent approach by the NCA when dealing with NCOA members in all aspects of the disciplinary process including disclosure, interviews, timescales, panel formats and ultimately case disposal decisions. This is perceived as being unfair, is contrary to ACAS guidelines NCA policy and values. The NCOA are requested to engage with the NCA at strategic level and seek further review of the misconduct process and to evaluate the effectiveness of the current process in comparison to our colleagues in other law enforcement agencies. The NCOA are requested to form a Discipline and Misconduct working who will monitor and assess all NCA misconduct investigations involving NCOA members with a view to considering conviction/dismissal rates and to actively engage with the employer to ensure fairness in proceedings and consistency of approach. The NCOA will seek via the NCOA Discipline and Misconduct working group to influence agency activity in this regard and the provision of best practice to maintain confidence in the process, transparency and fairness. MW&W Motion A28 The agency utilises numerous systems to record duty times, overtime and expenses. This is inefficient in terms of time and cost. These different systems record duty times differently. For example Duty sheet works to a system of 7.5 hours Monday to Thursday with 7 hours on a Friday (agreed by investigations). Resource Link defaults to 7.4 hours per day (although this can be overridden). In addition to these two there are also others used in various departments.
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