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

General duties of local policing bodies, chief officers, contractors and inspectors

9.—(1) It shall be the duty of—

(a) every local policing body maintaining a police force;

(b) the chief officer of police of every police force;

(c) every contractor; and

(d) HMIC carrying out its functions in relation to a police force,

to ensure that they are each kept informed, in relation to that contractor, about all matters falling within paragraph (2).

(2) Those matters are—

(a) matters with respect to which any provision of these Regulations has effect;

(b) anything which is done under or for the purposes of any such provision; and

(c) any obligations to act or refrain from acting that have arisen by or under these Regulations but have not yet been complied with, or have been contravened.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies in a case where it appears to a local policing body that—

(a) an obligation to act or refrain from acting has arisen by or under these Regulations;

(b) that obligation is an obligation of the chief officer of police; and

(c) the chief officer has not yet complied with that obligation, or has contravened it.

(4) The local policing body may direct the chief officer to take such steps as the local policing body thinks appropriate.

(5) The chief officer must comply with any direction given under paragraph (4).

(6) Where—

(a) the local policing body requires a chief officer of a police force to provide a member of a police force for appointment under regulation 42, 43 or 44; or

(b) the chief officer requires the chief officer of another police force to provide a member of that force for appointment under any of those regulations,

it shall be the duty of the chief officer to whom the requirement is addressed to comply with it.

(7) It shall be the duty of—

(a) every local policing body maintaining a police force;

(b) the chief officer of every police force; and

(c) the contractor

to provide the Commission and every member of the Commission’s staff with all such assistance as the Commission or that member of staff may reasonably require for the purposes of, or in connection with, the carrying out of any investigation by the Commission under this Part.

(8) It shall be the duty of—

(a) every local policing body maintaining a police force;

(b) the chief officer of every police force; and

(c) the contractor,

to ensure that a person appointed under regulation 42, 43 of 44 to carry out an investigation is given all such assistance and co-operation in the carrying out of that investigation as that person may reasonably require.

(9) The duties imposed by paragraphs (7) and (8) on a local policing body maintaining a police force and on the chief officer of such a force have effect—

(a) irrespective of whether the investigation relates to the conduct of a person who is or has been a member of that force; and

(b) irrespective of who has the person appointed to carry out the investigation under his direction and control,

but a chief officer of a third force may be required to give assistance and co-operation under paragraph (8) only with the approval of the chief officer of the force to which the person who requires it belongs.

(10) In paragraph (9) “third force”, in relation to an investigation, means a police force other than the force to which the person carrying out the investigation belongs.

(11) These Regulations shall only have effect with respect to so much of any complaint as relates to the direction and control of a contractor to the extent that it relates to the direction and control of the contractor by a chief officer of police.