{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-6", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013/regulation-6.json", "legislation": "uksi/2013/2325", "legislation_title": "The National Crime Agency (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2013", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-crime-agency-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2013", "path": "regulation/6", "kind": "regulation", "number": "6", "heading": "General functions of the IOPC DG under these Regulations", "text": "(1) The functions of the IOPC DG shall be—\n(a) to secure the maintenance by the IOPC DG itself, and by the permanent Secretary to the Home Office and Director General, of suitable arrangements with respect to the matters mentioned in paragraph (2);\n(b) to keep under review all arrangements maintained with respect to those matters;\n(c) to secure that arrangements maintained with respect to those matters comply with the requirements of the provisions of these Regulations, are efficient and effective and contain and manifest an appropriate degree of independence;\n(d) to secure that public confidence is established and maintained in the existence of suitable arrangements with respect to those matters and with the operation of the arrangements that are in fact maintained with respect to those matters;\n(e) to make such recommendations, and to give such advice, for the modification of the arrangements maintained with respect to those matters, and also with respect to the practice of the NCA in relation to other matters, as appear, from the carrying out by the IOPC DG of the IOPC DG’s other functions, to be necessary or desirable.\n(2) Those matters are—\n(a) the handling of complaints made about the conduct of the Director General or an NCA officer;\n(b) the recording of matters from which it appears that there may have been conduct by such persons which constitutes or involves the commission of a criminal offence or behaviour justifying disciplinary proceedings;\n(c) the recording of matters from which it appears that a person has died or suffered serious injury during, or following, contact with the Director General or an NCA officer;\n(d) the manner in which any such complaints or any such matters as are mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) are investigated or otherwise handled and dealt with.\n(3) It shall be the duty of the IOPC DG—\n(a) to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred on the IOPC DG by the following provisions of these Regulations in the manner that the IOPC DG considers best calculated for the purpose of securing the proper carrying out of the IOPC DG’s functions under paragraph (1); and\n(b) to secure that arrangements exist which are conducive to, and facilitate, the reporting of misconduct by persons in relation to whose conduct the IOPC DG has functions.\n(4) It shall also be the duty of the IOPC DG—\n(a) to enter into arrangements with the chief inspector of constabulary for the purpose of securing co-operation, in the carrying out of their respective functions, between the IOPC DG and the inspectors of the constabulary; and\n(b) to provide those inspectors with all such assistance and co-operation as may be required by those arrangements, or as otherwise appears to the IOPC DG to be appropriate, for facilitating the carrying out by those inspectors of their functions.\n(4A) In carrying out functions under these Regulations the IOPC DG shall have regard to any advice provided to the IOPC DG by the IOPC (see regulation 6A(1)(a)).\n(5) Subject to the other provisions of these Regulations, the IOPC DG may do anything which appears to the IOPC DG to be calculated to facilitate, or is incidental or conducive to, the carrying out of the IOPC DG’s functions under these Regulations.\n(6) The IOPC may, in connection with the making of any recommendation or the giving of any advice to any person for the purpose of carrying out the IOPC DG’s functions under paragraph (1)(c), (d) or (e) impose any such charge on that person for anything done by the IOPC DG for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of that function as the IOPC DG thinks fit.", "extent": "E+W", "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "F", "label": "F1", "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 30(2)(a) (with regs. 30(3), 37)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F2", "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 30(2)(d) (with regs. 30(3), 37)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F3", "text": "Words in Regulations substituted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), reg. 30(2)(c) (with regs. 30(3), 37)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F4", "text": "Reg. 6(4A) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 30(6)(a) (with reg. 37)" }, { "type": "F", "label": "F5", "text": "Word in reg. 6(6) inserted (8.1.2018) by The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1250), regs. 1, 30(6)(b) (with reg. 37)" }, { "type": "I", "label": "I1", "text": "Reg. 6 in force at 7.10.2013, see reg. 1(1)" } ], "outstanding_effects": [], "provenance": { "source": "legislation.gov.uk", "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2325/regulation/6", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:41:21.235354+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." }