Police Act 1996

98 (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 [F1 Police Service of Northern Ireland], provide constables or other assistance for the purpose of enabling the Scottish force or the [F1 Police Service of Northern Ireland] to meet any special demand on its resources. U.K.

(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 [F1 Police Service of Northern Ireland] F3 ..., provide constables or other assistance for the purpose of enabling the English or Welsh force or the [F1 Police Service of Northern Ireland] F3 ... to meet any special demand on its resources.

(3) The chief constable of the [F1 Police 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 [F1 Police 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 [F1 Police 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 [F10 local policing body] maintaining a police force for which assistance is provided under this section shall pay to the [F10 local policing body] maintaining the force from which that assistance is provided such contribution as may be agreed upon between [F11 those bodies] or, in the absence of any such agreement, as may be provided by any agreement subsisting at the time between all [F12 local policing bodies] generally, or, in the absence of such general agreement, as may be determined by the Secretary of State.

F13 (6A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

[F14 (6B) In this section “local policing body” includes—

(a) a police authority in Scotland, and

(b) the Northern Ireland Policing Board.]

(7) In the application of this section to Scotland, any expression used in this section and in the M1 Police (Scotland) Act 1967 shall have the same meaning in this section as in that Act.

[F15 (8) “Constable”, in relation to Northern Ireland, means a police officer within the meaning of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words 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.

F2 Word 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)

F3 Words 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)

F4 Words 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)

F5 S. 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)

F6 Words 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)

F7 Words 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

F8 Words 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)

F9 Words 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)

F10 Words in s. 98(6) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 45(2)(a); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1

F11 Words in s. 98(6) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 45(2)(b); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1

F12 Words in s. 98(6) substituted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 45(2)(c); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1

F13 S. 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)

F14 S. 98(6B) inserted (16.1.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 45(3); S.I. 2011/3019, art. 3, Sch. 1

F15 S. 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.

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c. 77.