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Regulation 6 General duties of police and crime panels, relevant office holders and chief officers of policeI1

England and Wales

(1)

It shall be the duty of every police and crime panel to ensure that it is kept informed, in relation to a relevant office holder for the panel’s police area, about all matters falling within paragraph (2).

(2)

Those matters are—

(a)

matters with respect to which any provision of these Regulations has effect;

(b)

anything which is done under or for the purposes of any such provision; and

(c)

any obligations to act or refrain from acting that have arisen under these Regulations, but have not yet been complied with or have been contravened.

(3)

Where a chief officer of police of any police force requires the chief officer of any other police force or a local policing body to provide a person serving with the police for appointment under regulation 19 (investigations managed by the F1Director General), it shall be the duty of the chief officer or body to whom the requirement is addressed to comply with it.

(4)

It shall be the duty of every police and crime panel, every relevant office holder and every chief officer of police to provide the Director General and every member of the F2IOPC’s staff with all such assistance as the Director General or that member of staff may reasonably require for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of any investigation by the Director General under regulation 20.

(5)

It shall be the duty of every police and crime panel, every relevant office holder and every chief officer of police to ensure that a person appointed under regulation 19 to conduct an investigation under the management of the Director General is given all such assistance and co-operation in the carrying out of that investigation as that person may reasonably require.

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

Word in reg. 6(4) substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 21(8) (with reg. 37)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 6 in force at 16.1.2012, see reg. 1