Part 2Complaints and Misconduct
The Independent Office for Police Conduct
F110AGeneral functions of the Office
(1)
The functions of the Office are—
(a)
to secure that the Office has in place appropriate arrangements for good governance and financial management,
(b)
to determine and promote the strategic aims and values of the Office,
(c)
to provide support and advice to the Director General in the carrying out of the Director General's functions, and
(d)
to monitor and review the carrying out of such functions.
(2)
The Office also has such other functions as are conferred on it by any other enactment (whenever passed or made).
(3)
The Office is to perform its functions for the general purpose of improving the way in which the Director General's functions are carried out (including by encouraging the efficient and effective use of resources in the carrying out of those functions).
(4)
In carrying out its functions the Office must in particular have regard to public confidence in the existence of suitable arrangements with respect to the matters mentioned in section 10(2) and with the operation of the arrangements that are in fact maintained with respect to those matters.
(5)
The Office may do anything which appears to it to be calculated to facilitate, or is incidental or conducive to, the carrying out of its functions.