135Application 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—
“(8)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.
(9)Regulations under subsection (8) may make modifications to this Part, and to any regulations made under this Part, in its application to those persons.
(10)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.”