Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011

10 Co-operative working

(1) The elected local policing body for a police area must, in exercising its functions, have regard to the relevant priorities of each responsible authority.

(2) The elected local policing body for a police area, in exercising its functions, and a responsible authority, in exercising its functions conferred by or under section 6 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 in relation to that police area, must act in co-operation with each other.

(3) The elected local policing body for a police area, and the criminal justice bodies which exercise functions as criminal justice bodies in that police area, must make arrangements (so far as it is appropriate to do so) for the exercise of functions so as to provide an efficient and effective criminal justice system for the police area.

(4) The references in this section to a responsible authority exercising functions in relation to a police area are references to the responsible authority exercising the functions in relation to a local government area that is comprised, or included, in the police area.

(5) In this section—

• “criminal justice body”, in relation to the elected local policing body for a police area, means—

  (a)

  the chief officer of police for that police area;

  (b)

  the Crown Prosecution Service;

  (c)

  the Lord Chancellor, in exercising functions under section 1 of the Courts Act 2003 (duty to ensure efficient and effective courts service);

  (d)

  a Minister of the Crown, in exercising functions in relation to prisons (within the meaning of the Prison Act 1952);

  (e)

  a youth offending team established under section 39 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998;

  (f)

  a person with whom the Secretary of State has made contractual or other arrangements, under section 3(2) of the Offender Management Act 2007, for the making of probation provision;

  (g)

  the Secretary of State, in making probation provision in accordance with arrangements made by the Secretary of State under section 3(5) of the Offender Management Act 2007;

• “functions” does not include functions which are exercisable only in relation to Wales and relate to matters in relation to which the Welsh Ministers have functions;

• “Minister of the Crown” has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975;

• “relevant priority”, in relation to a responsible authority, means a priority applicable to the exercise of that authority’s functions which is identified by that authority in compliance with a requirement imposed by regulations made under section 6(2) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998;

• “responsible authority” has the same meaning as in section 5 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.