The Police (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Amendments to the Police Regulations 2003

3.  In Regulation 19(1)—

(a) for paragraph (1), substitute—

“(1) Every member of a police force must provide a sample when directed to do so by the chief officer and in accordance with any such direction.”;

(b) after paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) Samples or the information derived from samples of members of a police force taken in accordance with this regulation (or treated as if so taken, by virtue of regulation 10A(3)(b)(2)) may be checked against samples or the information derived from samples taken in accordance with the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984(3) or recovered from scenes of crime.”;

(c) for paragraph (3), substitute-

“(3) Samples of a member of a police force taken in accordance with this regulation shall be destroyed before the end of the period of six months beginning with the date on which they were taken.

(3A) The information derived from samples of a member of a police force taken in accordance with this regulation, and all copies and records thereof, shall be destroyed within 12 months of that member ceasing to be a member of that police force except by reason of a transfer to another force.”;

(d) omit paragraph (5).

(1)

Regulation 19 was amended by S.I. 2012/680 and S.I. 2012/1960.

(2)

Regulation 10A was inserted by S.I. 2012/1960.

(3)

1984 c. 60.