Section 123: Provision of information for use by police staff
299.This section amends section 71 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 and sections 18 and 36 of the Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001. It gives police staff the same access to data under those provisions as police officers already have. For this purpose, police staff are persons, other than police officers, employed by a police authority and under the direction and control of the relevant force’s chief officer. Police staff of the British Transport Police are persons employed by the British Transport Police Authority and under the direction and control of the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police Force.
300.The section enables police staff, in the course of their existing duties and to the extent permitted by the three legislative provisions being amended, to access certain information regarding drivers’ licences and the validity of such licences, information contained in the register of persons carrying on business as registration plate suppliers and certain motor insurance information.
