The Police (Secretary of State’s Objectives) Order 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order sets out the Secretary of State’s objectives for the police authorities established by the amendments made by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 to the Police Act 1964. The provisions of the 1994 Act establishing those authorities were brought into force by the Police and Magistrates' Courts Act 1994 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provisions) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2025 (C.38)). Certain provisions of that Act conferring functions on the new authorities were brought into force for limited purposes by that Order.

Amongst those provisions are the amendments made by section 4 of the 1994 Act. Section 4(2)(a) of the 1964 Act, as substituted by section 4 of the 1994 Act, requires every new authority to have regard to these objectives in the discharge of its functions. Section 4B of the 1964 Act, as substituted, requires every new authority to issue a local policing plan which (under section 4A(2)(a), as substituted) must give particulars of these objectives.