The Independent Office for Police Conduct (Transitional and Consequential) Regulations 2017

Amendment of the Police (Complaints and Conduct) Regulations 2013

27.  The Police (Complaints and Conduct) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(1) In regulation 1, at the appropriate place insert —

““Director General” means the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct;”.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) For the purposes of paragraph 19F(2) of Schedule 3 to the 2002 Act (interview of persons serving with the police etc during certain investigations) where a serving officer is required for interview as part of—

(a) an investigation under paragraph 19 of Schedule 3 to the 2002 Act, the Director General shall,

(b) an investigation under paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 to the 2002 Act, the investigator shall,

give written notice to the serving officer that the interview will take place in accordance with this regulation, and if reasonably practicable, agree a date and time for the interview with the serving officer.”;

(b) after “investigator” insert “or, in the case of an investigation by a designated person under paragraph 19 of Schedule 3 to the 2002 Act who is not the Director General, the Director General” in the following paragraphs—

(i) (2);

(ii) (4)(b);

(iii) (6) (in the first place where it occurs); and

(iv) (11)(a); and

(c) in paragraph (6) after “investigator” in the second place where it occurs insert “or, as the case may be, the Director General”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/281.