Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012

28 Police custody and security officers

(1) The chief constable may certify a member of the police staff appointed under section 26(1) as having been authorised to carry out functions in relation to custody and security.

(2) An individual so certified is to be known as a “police custody and security officer”.

(3) A police custody and security officer has—

(a) for the purposes of the functions which the officer is authorised to carry out, the powers and duties set out in schedule 2, and

(b) all other functions conferred on police custody and security officers by virtue of this or any other enactment or by rule of law.

(4) A police custody and security officer is to be regarded as acting in accordance with the officer’s powers and duties only if the officer is readily identifiable as such an officer when so acting (whether or not by means of a uniform or badge worn).

(5) Sections 22(3) and (4),23and 92apply in relation to a police custody and security officer as they apply in relation to a constable (and when so applied, a reference to a constable is to be read as a reference to such an officer).