{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2012/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/192",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-amendment-regulations-2012",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Police Regulations 2003",
  "text": "In regulation 3(1) (interpretation), in the appropriate places, insert—\n““SOCA” means the Serious Organised Crime Agency;\n“specified employee of SOCA” means—\n(a) an employee of SOCA who immediately before he last became an employee of SOCA was serving as the Director General of the National Crime Squad;\n(b) an employee of SOCA who immediately before he last became an employee of SOCA was serving as a police member of the National Criminal Intelligence Service appointed under subsection (1)(b) of section 9 of the Police Act 1997 by virtue of subsection (2)(a) of that section;\n(c) an employee of SOCA who immediately before he last became an employee of SOCA was serving as a police member of the National Crime Squad appointed under subsection (1)(b) of section 55 of the Police Act 1997 by virtue of subsection (2)(a) of that section.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/192/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:43:38.189372+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."
}