The appropriate authority for complaints etc about metropolitan police
97(1)Section 65 of the [1996 c. 16.] Police Act 1996 (interpretation of Chapter I of Part IV, which relates to complaints and disciplinary proceedings) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In the definition of “the appropriate authority”—
(a)paragraph (a) (which defines the appropriate authority in relation to the metropolitan police force as the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis), and
(b)the word “other” in paragraph (b),
shall cease to have effect.
(3)In the definition of “investigating officer” after “means” there shall be inserted “a person (whether a member of a police force or not) appointed under section 68(2B) or”.