# The Police Authorities (Three-year Strategy Plans) Regulations 2002, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Section 6A of the Police Act 1996 (“the 1996 Act”) requires a police authority to prepare a plan, known as a three-year strategy plan which sets out the authority’s medium and long term strategies for policing that area. The three-year strategy plan must be consistent with the National Policing Plan made under section 36A of the 1996 Act.
Section 6A(14) of the 1996 Act enables the first period for which a plan has to be submitted to be less than 3 years. Regulation 2 provides that the first period for which a plan is to be submitted is the 2 year period ending on 31st March 2005. The subsequent three-year periods will be the three-year periods commencing on 1st April 2005, 1st April 2008 and every third year thereafter.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2526/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-authorities-three-year-strategy-plans-regulations-2002/note
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