The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004

Attendance of complainant and interested persons at hearing

29.—(1) This regulation shall apply in the case of a complaint or a conduct matter which falls under Part 2 of the 2002 Act.

(2) Notwithstanding anything in regulation 30(1), but subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, a complainant or interested person shall be entitled to attend the hearing up to and including the point at which the hearing decides whether the conduct of the officer concerned met the appropriate standard.

(3) A complainant and interested person may each nominate and be accompanied by up to three other persons (or such higher number as the tribunal or presiding officer shall permit).

(4) Where a complainant or interested person, or any person allowed to accompany him, is to be called as a witness at the hearing, he and any person allowed to accompany him shall not be allowed to attend before he gives his evidence.

(5) Where the officer concerned gives evidence, then, after the presenting officer has had an opportunity of cross-examining him, the tribunal or presiding officer shall put to him any questions which the complainant or interested person requests should be so put and might have been properly so put by the presenting officer or, at the tribunal or presiding officer’s discretion, may allow the complainant or interested person to put such questions to the officer concerned.

(6) In this regulation a reference to the complainant is a reference to the originator of the complaint notwithstanding that it was transmitted to the chief officer concerned or appropriate authority by some other person or by the Commission or some other body.

(7) In this regulation a reference to an interested person has meaning given by section 21(5) of the 2002 Act.