{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-plan-regulations-2008/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-plan-regulations-2008/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/312",
  "legislation_title": "The Policing Plan Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/policing-plan-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Consideration of Policing Plans",
  "text": "Before issuing a police plan a police authority shall consider—\n(a) any performance targets established by the police authority, whether in compliance with a direction under section 38 of the 1996 Act (performance targets) or otherwise, that relate to the plan period;\n(b) any matters relating to the efficiency and effectiveness of the police force\n(i) arising out of any inspection of the police force by Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Constabulary, or\n(ii) raised with the police authority by the Secretary of State;\n(c) any direction given to the police authority by the Secretary of State under section 40 of the 1996 Act (power to give directions in relation to police force) or any information given to the police authority of the grounds on which such a direction might be given;\n(d) the strategies for the plan period formulated by the relevant responsible authorities under section 6 (formulation and implementation of crime and disorder reduction stratagies) of the 1998 Act; and\n(e) any local improvement target to which the police authority must have regard under section 108 (duty to have regard to local improvement targets) of the 2007 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 38 of the 1996 Act was amended by paragraph 26 of Schedule 2 to the 2006 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 40 of the 1996 Act was substituted by paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the 2006 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 6 of the 1998 Act was substituted by paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the 2006 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 108 of the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 is not yet in force."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/312/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:36:47.739026+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."
}