Policing and Crime Act 2017

42 Police volunteers: police barred list and police advisory list

(1) Part 4A of the Police Act 1996 (police barred list and police advisory list) (as inserted by Schedule 8) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 88C (effect of inclusion in police barred list), at the end insert—

“(9) Before designating a person as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002, a chief officer of police must check with the College of Policing whether the person is a barred person.

(10) A chief officer of police may not designate a barred person as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002.”

(3) In section 88I (duty to report resignations and retirements to College of Policing)—

(a) in the heading, after “retirements” insert “etc”;

(b) in subsection (1), after paragraph (b) insert—

“(c) the person’s designation as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002 is withdrawn and the reason, or one of the reasons, for the withdrawal of the designation relates to conduct, efficiency or effectiveness;

(d) the person, having been designated as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002, decides to stop volunteering as a police volunteer (within the meaning of that section) after a relevant allegation about the person comes to the attention of the relevant authority.”;

(c) in subsection (4), after paragraph (d) insert—

“(e) in relation to a person falling within subsection (1)(c) or (d), the chief officer of police by whom the person was designated.”;

(d) in subsection (6)(b), at the end insert “or (as the case may be) the person’s designation as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer being withdrawn if the person had not decided to stop volunteering”.

(4) In section 88K (effect of inclusion in police advisory list), at the end insert—

“(8) Before designating a person as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002, a chief officer of police must check with the College of Policing whether the person is included in the police advisory list.”

(5) In section 88L (removal from police advisory list), in subsection (7)—

(a) the words from “a person who,” to the end of the subsection become paragraph (a);

(b) after that paragraph insert—

“(b) a person who was designated as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer under section 38 of the Police Reform Act 2002.”