Regulation 21 Combining and splitting investigationsI1
England and Wales
Subject to paragraph (2), where the F1Director General is managing or carrying out an investigation F2the Director General may—
combine that investigation with another investigation; or
split that investigation into two or more separate investigations,
if it considers that it is more efficient and effective, or is otherwise in the public interest, to do so.
The Director General shall not take any action under paragraph (1) in relation to an investigation managed by the Director General under regulation 19 except after consulting the chief officer of police of the police force carrying out the investigation.
Nothing in this regulation shall prevent the Director General from determining that—
where an investigation is split into two or more separate investigations, those investigations may take different forms;
two or more separate investigations which take different forms may be combined into a single investigation.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 21(2)(a) (with regs. 21(3), 37)
- F2
Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 21(2)(c) (with regs. 21(3), 37)
Commencement
- I1
Reg. 21 in force at 16.1.2012, see reg. 1