Section 31: Conduct
152.Section 31 allows the Secretary of State to make regulations about the making and handling of complaints against a police and crime commissioner, a deputy police and crime commissioner, the holder of the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, the Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime. This section also allows the Secretary of State to make regulations about the recording of conduct matters (matters from which it appears that police and crime commissioners or specially appointed members of their staff may have committed criminal offences, but which are not the subject of a complaint), and the investigation of these complaints and matters.
153.Subsection (2) introduces Schedule 7.