PART 2Initial Handling of Complaints and Conduct Matters
Failures to record or notify a complaint10.
(1)
This regulation applies where anything which is or purports to be a complaint in relation to which regulation 9 (notification and recording of complaints) has effect is received by a police and crime panel, a relevant office holder or a chief officer of police (whether in consequence of having been made directly or of a notification under that regulation).
(2)
If the police and crime panel, relevant office holder or chief officer of police decides not to take action under regulation 9 for notifying or recording the whole or any part of what has been received, the panel, office holder or chief officer shall notify the complainant of the following matters—
(a)
the decision to take no action and, if that decision relates to only part of what was received, the part in question; and
(b)
the grounds on which the decision was made.