Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022

14 Involvement of local policing bodies

(1) A local policing body for a police area may assist a specified authority in the exercise of—

(a) the authority’s functions under or in accordance with section 8 in relation to a local government area which coincides with or falls within the police area, or

(b) the authority’s functions under or in accordance with section 9 in relation to a relevant area which, or any part of which, coincides with or falls within the police area.

(2) A local policing body for a police area may—

(a) monitor the exercise by specified authorities of their functions under or in accordance with section 8 in relation to a local government area which coincides with or falls within the police area, or

(b) monitor the exercise by specified authorities of their functions under or in accordance with section 9 in relation to a relevant area which, or any part of which, coincides with or falls within the police area.

(3) A local policing body may report its findings under subsection (2) to the Secretary of State.

(4) The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision conferring functions on a local policing body for a police area for the purposes of subsection (1).

(5) Provision under subsection (4) may include provision—

(a) for a local policing body to provide funding to a specified authority,

(b) for a local policing body to arrange for meetings to be held for the purpose of assisting the exercise by specified authorities of their functions under or in accordance with section 8 or 9,

(c) for the local policing body or a representative of the body to chair the meetings, and

(d) for such descriptions and numbers of persons as the local policing body may specify to be required to attend the meetings.

(6) If a local policing body acts under subsection (1) or (2), or under regulations under subsection (4), in relation to the exercise by a specified authority of its functions under or in accordance with section 8 or 9, the authority must co-operate with the body.

(7) References in this Chapter (however expressed) to a specified authority exercising functions in accordance with section 8 or 9 are to the authority exercising functions conferred on it apart from this Chapter in accordance with the section in question.