Appointment Panel – Head of Safer Communities

Friday 8 December 2006 at 9.30 am

Present:  Councillors Hill, McCormick (M), White, Chief Executive, Corporate Director Environment & Community Protection and Corporate Director Improvement & Performance.

Chair:  Councillor Hill presided.

In attendance:  Mr R Blackburn, PSBA Ltd and Mr D O’Brien, Munro Consulting.

The following paragraphs are submitted for information only, having been dealt with under the powers delegated to the Panel.

It was agreed in terms of Section 50(A)(4) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 as amended, that the public and press be excluded from the meeting for the following item on the grounds that the business involved the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Paragraph 1 of Part I of Schedule 7(A) of the Act.

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Appointment of Head of Safer Communities

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The Panel interviewed five candidates and agreed to appoint Mr John Arthur to the post of Head of Safer Communities, all as detailed in the appendix.