PART 1

Police reform
CHAPTER 10

Complaints and investigations

Complaints handling
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1
The Authority and the chief constable must maintain suitable arrangements for the handling of relevant complaints.
2
The Authority and the chief constable must seek the views of others as to what those arrangements should be.
3
The Authority must keep itself informed as to the manner in which relevant complaints are dealt with by the chief constable with a view to satisfying itself that the arrangements maintained by the chief constable under subsection (1)are suitable.
4
Without prejudice to the generality of section 84 the chief constable must provide the Authority with such information about relevant complaints made to the chief constable, or about how they have been dealt with, as the Authority may reasonably require for the purposes of subsection (3).
5
The chief constable must seek to ensure that sufficient information about relevant complaints is kept to enable compliance with any requirement made under subsection (4).
6
In this section “relevant complaint” has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 1 of the 2006 Act.