{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2000/section-31A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2000/section-31A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/32",
  "legislation_title": "Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-northern-ireland-act-2000",
  "path": "section/31A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31A",
  "heading": "Core policing principles",
  "text": "(1) Police officers and National Crime Agency officers shall carry out their functions with the aim—\n(a) of securing the support of the local community, and\n(b) of acting in co-operation with the local community.\n(2) In carrying out their functions, police officers and National Crime Agency officers shall be guided by the code of ethics under section 52.\n(3) Nothing in this section shall have effect in relation to anything done by a National Crime Agency officer outside Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 31A and cross-heading inserted (8.4.2003) by Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003 (c. 6), s. 20(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 31A(1) inserted (19.5.2015) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/798), art. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 31A(2) inserted (19.5.2015) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/798), art. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 31A(3) inserted (19.5.2015) by The Crime and Courts Act 2013 (National Crime Agency and Proceeds of Crime) (Northern Ireland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/798), art. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 3(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/32/section/31A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:39.477204+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."
}