The Police (Descriptions of Service) Order 2012

Amendments to the Police Act 1996

3.—(1) Section 97 of the Police Act 1996 (police officers engaged on service outside their force)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1) (relevant service), at the end insert—

“(i) temporary service with the body known as the College of Policing on which a person is engaged with the consent of the appropriate authority;”.

(3) In subsection (6) (discipline), in paragraph (a), for “or (h)” substitute “, (h) or (i),”.

(4) In subsection (8) (office of constable etc), for “or (d)” substitute “, (d) or (i)”.

(1)

Section 97(1) was amended by the Police Act 1997 (c. 50), the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998, the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000, the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29), the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30), the International Development Act 2002, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, the Police and Justice Act 2006, the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27), the Policing and Crime Act 2009 and S.I. 2007/1098 in order to add, vary or remove descriptions of service. Consequential amendments were made by some of these enactments to section 97(6) and (8).