SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Minor and consequential amendments relating to SOCA

Police Act 1996 (c. 16)

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1

Section 54 (appointment and functions of inspectors of constabulary) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (2) omit “the National Criminal Intelligence Service and the National Crime Squad”.

3

For subsection (2B) substitute—

2B

The Secretary of State may at any time require the inspectors of constabulary to carry out an inspection under this section of a police force maintained for any police area; and a requirement under this subsection may include a requirement for the inspection to be confined to a particular part of the force in question, to particular matters or to particular activities of that force.