PART 11Policing etc

Independent Police Complaints Commission

I1135Application of IPCC provisions to contractors

In section 12 of the Police Reform Act 2002 (complaints, matters and persons to which Part 2 applies), at the end there is inserted—

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The Secretary of State may make regulations providing that, for the purposes of this Part and of any regulations made under this Part—

a

a contractor,

b

a sub-contractor of a contractor, or

c

an employee of a contractor or a sub-contractor,

is to be treated as a person serving with the police.

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Regulations under subsection (8) may make modifications to this Part, and to any regulations made under this Part, in its application to those persons.

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In subsection (8) “contractor” means a person who has entered into a contract with a local policing body or a chief officer to provide services to a chief officer.