(1)The chief officer of police of a police force in England or Wales may, on the application of the chief officer of a police force in Scotland or the chief constable of the [F1Police Service of Northern Ireland], provide constables or other assistance for the purpose of enabling the Scottish force or the [F1Police Service of Northern Ireland] to meet any special demand on its resources.
(2)The chief officer of a police force in Scotland may, on the application of the chief officer of police of a police force in England or Wales F2... the chief constable of the [F1Police Service of Northern Ireland] F3..., provide constables or other assistance for the purpose of enabling the English or Welsh force or the [F1Police Service of Northern Ireland] F3... to meet any special demand on its resources.
(3)The chief constable of the [F1Police Service of Northern Ireland] may, on the application of the chief officer of police of a police force in England or Wales or the chief officer of a police force in Scotland F4..., provide constables or other assistance for the purpose of enabling the English or Welsh force or the Scottish force F4... to meet any special demand on its resources.
F5(3A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4)If it appears to the Secretary of State—
(a)to be expedient in the interests of public safety or order that a police force F6...should be reinforced or should receive other assistance for the purpose of enabling it to meet any special demand on its resources, and
(b)that satisfactory arrangements under subsection (1), [F7(2) or (3)] cannot be made, or cannot be made in time,
he may direct the chief officer of police of any police force in England or Wales, the chief officer of any police force in Scotland or the chief constable of the [F1Police Service of Northern Ireland] F6..., as the case may be, to provide such constables or other assistance for that purpose as may be specified in the direction.
(5)While a constable is provided under this section for the assistance of another police force F8... he shall, notwithstanding any enactment,—
(a)be under the direction and control of the chief officer of police of that other force (or, where that other force is a police force in Scotland or the [F1Police Service of Northern Ireland] F8..., of its chief officer or the chief constable of the [Police Service of Northern Ireland] F9... respectively); and
(b)have in any place the like powers and privileges as a member of that other force has in that place as a constable.
(6)The police authority maintaining a police force for which assistance is provided under this section shall pay to the police authority maintaining the force from which that assistance is provided such contribution as may be agreed upon between those authorities or, in the absence of any such agreement, as may be provided by any agreement subsisting at the time between all police authorities generally, or, in the absence of such general agreement, as may be determined by the Secretary of State.
F10(6A). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(7)In the application of this section to Scotland, any expression used in this section and in the M1Police (Scotland) Act 1967 shall have the same meaning in this section as in that Act.
[F11(8)“Constable”, in relation to Northern Ireland, means a police officer within the meaning of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 98(1)-(5) substituted (4.11.2001) by 2000 c. 32, s. 74, Sch. 6 para. 12(4); S.R. 2001/396, art. 2, Sch.
F2Word in s. 98(2) repealed (1.4.1998) by 1997 c. 50, s. 134(2), Sch. 10; S.I. 1998/354, art. 2(2)(ay)
F3Words in s. 98(2) repealed (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(2), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. paras. 10, 13(y)
F4Words in s. 98(3) repealed (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(2), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. paras. 10, 13(y)
F5S. 98(3A) repealed (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(3), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. paras. 10, 13(y)
F6Words in s. 98(4) repealed (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(4)(a), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. paras. 10, 13(y)
F7Words in s. 98(4) substituted (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(4)(b); S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. para. 10
F8Words in s. 98(5) repealed (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(5)(a), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. paras. 10, 13(y)
F9Words in s. 98(5) repealed (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(5)(b), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. paras. 1013(y)
F10S. 98(6A) repealed (1.4.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), s. 178(8), Sch. 4 para. 83(6), Sch. 17 Pt. 2; S.I. 2006/378, art. 4(1), Sch. paras. 10, 13(y)
F11S. 98(8) substituted (4.11.2001) for s. 98(8)(9) by 2000 c. 32, s. 74, Sch. 6 para. 12(5); S.R. 2001/396, art. 2, Sch.
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