The Police (Dispensation from Requirement to Investigate Complaints) Regulations 1990

4.  The principal Regulations shall be amended as follows:

(a) there shall be inserted in regulation 3(1)(a), after the word “Regulations,” the words “or that a complaint is vexatious, oppressive or otherwise an abuse of the procedures for dealing with complaints,”;

(b) there shall be substituted for the word “and” at the end of regulation 3(1)(a) the following provision—

“or

(aa) that more than 12 months have elapsed between the incident, or the latest incident, giving rise to the complaint and the making of the complaint and either that no good reason for the delay has been shown or that injustice would be likely to be caused by the delay, and”;

(c) there shall be inserted at the beginning of regulation 3(1)(b) the words “in either case,”;

(d) the word “and” at the end of regulation 3(2)(b) shall be omitted;

(e) there shall be inserted after regulation 3(2)(c) the following provision —

“; and

(d) where the appropriate authority is of the opinion that the complaint is a repetitious complaint and the previous complaint has been informally resolved in accordance with the provisions of section 85 of the Act of 1984, a copy of the record of the outcome of the informal resolution procedure made under regulation 5 of the Police (Complaints) (Informal Resolution) Regulations 1985(1).”; and

(f) there shall be inserted in the Schedu1e, after paragraph 3(2)(a) the following provision —

“(aa) the complaint was informally resolved in accordance with the provisions of section 85 of the Act of 1984;”.

(1)

S.I. 1985/671.