# The Police (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2020, Regulation 24: Accelerated procedure: statement and report

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(1) Where paragraph 20A of Schedule 3 (accelerated procedure in special cases) applies, the person investigating, the appropriate authority and (where the person investigating is not also the Director General carrying out the investigation under paragraph 19 of Schedule 3 personally) the Director General must proceed in accordance with—
(a) this regulation, and
(b) regulation 25 (accelerated procedure: investigations by the appropriate authority on its own behalf) or regulation 26 (accelerated procedure: other investigations) as appropriate.
(2) In the case of an investigation under paragraph 16 of Schedule 3 (investigations by the appropriate authority on its own behalf), the person investigating must—
(a) submit the documents mentioned in paragraph (5) to the appropriate authority, and
(b) if that person was appointed following a determination by the Director General under paragraph 15 or 26 of Schedule 3 (power of the Director General to determine the form of an investigation and re-investigation), send a copy of those documents to the Director General.
(3) In the case of an investigation under paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 (investigations directed by the Director General), other than where the Director General has made a determination in accordance with paragraph 20A(1)(b) of Schedule 3—
(a) the person investigating must submit the documents mentioned in paragraph (5) to the Director General, and
(b) if the Director General agrees that the special conditions are satisfied, the Director General must submit those documents to the appropriate authority.
(4) In any other case, the Director General must submit the documents mentioned in paragraph (5) to the appropriate authority.
(5) The documents are—
(a) a statement of—
(i) the belief of the person investigating or Director General (as the case may be) that the appropriate authority would, on consideration of the matter, be likely to consider that the special conditions are satisfied, and
(ii) the grounds for that belief, and
(b) a written report on the investigation to that point.
(6) Subject to paragraph (7), a person submitting a report under this regulation is not prevented by any obligation of secrecy imposed by any rule of law or otherwise from including all such matters in the report as the person sees fit.
(7) Where a person would contravene section 21A of the 2002 Act (restriction on disclosure of sensitive information) by submitting a report in its entirety to the appropriate authority under this regulation, the person must instead submit the report having removed or obscured the information which by virtue of section 21A the person must not disclose.
(8) A statement and report may be submitted under this regulation—
(a) whether or not a previous statement and report have been submitted, but
(b) if a previous statement and report (or previous statements and reports) have been submitted, only if the person submitting them has grounds to believe that the appropriate authority will reach a different determination under regulation 25 or 26.
(9) After the submission of a statement and report under this regulation, the person investigating the complaint or recordable conduct matter must continue the investigation to such extent as—
(a) in the case of an investigation under paragraph 16 of Schedule 3, the person investigating considers appropriate;
(b) in the case of an investigation under paragraph 18 or 19 of Schedule 3, the Director General considers appropriate.
(10) In regulations 25 and 26, “special report” means a report submitted under this regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/2/regulation/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2020/regulation-24
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