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Paragraph 14

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Section 11A (appointment and removal of deputy chief constables) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1) (police forces to have a deputy chief constable), for “a deputy chief constable” there is substituted “ one or more deputy chief constables ”.

(3)

For subsection (2) there is substituted—

“(2)

The appointment of a person to be a deputy chief constable of a police force shall be made, in accordance with regulations under section 50, by the police authority responsible for maintaining that force.

(2A)

Where the police authority responsible for maintaining a police force—

(a)

proposes to increase the number of deputy chief constables that the force has, or

(b)

proposes to appoint a particular person to be a deputy chief constable,

it may do so only after consultation with the chief constable and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.”