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Section 34 Engagement with local peopleI1

(1)

A chief officer of police must make arrangements for obtaining the views of persons within each neighbourhood in the relevant police area about crime and disorder in that neighbourhood.

(2)

A chief officer of police must make arrangements for providing persons within each neighbourhood in the relevant police area with information about policing in that neighbourhood (including information about how policing in that neighbourhood is aimed at dealing with crime and disorder there).

(3)

Arrangements under this section must provide for, or include arrangements for, the holding in each neighbourhood of regular meetings between—

(a)

persons within that neighbourhood, and

(b)

police officers with responsibility for supervising or carrying out policing in that neighbourhood.

(4)

It is for a chief officer of police to determine what the neighbourhoods are in the relevant police area.

Annotations

Commencement

I1

S. 34 in force at 16.1.2012 by S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1

Notes on Part 1

Modifications

C1

Pt. 1 applied (with modifications) (10.5.2021) by The West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Election of Mayor and Functions) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/112), arts. 1(4), 35(1) (with art. 35(3), Sch. 6)