{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-performance-regulations-2008/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-performance-regulations-2008/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2008/9780110835181",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Performance) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-police-performance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Police friend",
  "text": "(1) The officer concerned may choose—\n(a) a police officer;\n(b) a police staff member; or\n(c) where the officer concerned is a member of a police force, a person nominated by his staff association,\nwho is not otherwise involved in the matter, to act as his police friend.\n(2) A police friend may—\n(a) advise the officer concerned throughout the proceedings under these Regulations;\n(b) unless the officer concerned has the right to be legally represented under regulation 6 and chooses to be so represented, represent the officer concerned at a meeting under these Regulations;\n(c) make representations to the appropriate authority concerning any aspect of the proceedings under these Regulations; and\n(d) accompany the officer concerned to any meeting which the officer concerned is required to attend under these Regulations.\n(3) Where a police friend is a police officer or a police staff member, the chief officer of police of the force of which the police friend is a member shall permit him to use a reasonable amount of duty time for the purposes referred to in paragraph (2).\n(4) The reference in paragraph (3) to the force of which the police friend is a member shall include a reference to the force maintained for the police area for which a special constable is appointed and the force in which a police staff member is serving.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2008/9780110835181/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:15:55.280091+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}