The Independent Police Complaints Commission (Complaints and Misconduct) (Contractors) Regulations 2015

General functions of the Commission under these Regulations

6.—(1) The functions of the Commission shall be—

(a) to secure the maintenance by the Commission itself, and by local policing bodies, chief officers and contractors, of suitable arrangements with respect to the matters mentioned in paragraph (2);

(b) to keep under review all arrangements maintained with respect to those matters;

(c) to secure that arrangements maintained with respect to those matters comply with the requirements of the provisions of these Regulations, are efficient and effective and contain and manifest an appropriate degree of independence;

(d) to secure that public confidence is established and maintained in the existence of suitable arrangements with respect to those matters and with the operation of the arrangements that are in fact maintained with respect to those matters; and

(e) to make such recommendations, and to give such advice, for the modification of the arrangements maintained with respect to those matters, and also of the practice of the police or contractors or in relation to other matters, as appear, from the carrying out by the Commission of its other functions, to be necessary or desirable.

(2) Those matters are—

(a) the handling of complaints made about the conduct of contractors;

(b) the recording of matters from which it appears that there may have been conduct by such persons which constitutes or involves the commission of a criminal offence or behaviour justifying disciplinary proceedings;

(c) the recording of matters from which it appears that a person has died or suffered serious injury during, or following, contact with a contractor;

(d) the manner in which any such complaints or any such matters as are mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) are investigated or otherwise handled and dealt with.

(3) It shall be the duty of the Commission—

(a) to exercise the powers and perform the duties conferred on it by the following provisions of these Regulations in the manner that it considers best calculated for the purpose of securing the proper carrying out of its functions under paragraph (1); and

(b) to secure that arrangements exist which are conducive to, and facilitate, the reporting of misconduct by persons in relation to whose conduct the Commission has functions.

(4) It shall also be the duty of the Commission—

(a) to enter into arrangements with the chief inspector of constabulary for the purpose of securing co-operation, in the carrying out of their respective functions, between the Commission and the inspectors of the constabulary; and

(b) to provide those inspectors with all such assistance and co-operation as may be required by those arrangements, or as otherwise appears to the Commission to be appropriate, for facilitating the carrying out by those inspectors of their functions.

(5) Subject to the other provisions of these Regulations, the Commission may do anything which appears to it to be calculated to facilitate, or is incidental or conducive to, the carrying out of its functions under these Regulations.

(6) The Commission may, in connection with the making of any recommendation or the giving of any advice to any person for the purpose of carrying out its functions under paragraph (1)(e) impose any such charge on that person for anything done by the Commission for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of that function as it thinks fit.