Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Explanatory Notes

Overview

Part 1- Police Reform

Police and Crime Commissioners: Elections and Vacancies

Section 75: The appropriate officer

217.Section 75 provides that the Secretary of State must, for police areas for which police and crime commissioners are elected, by order designate a local authority and that the head of paid service of that designated authority (as defined in subsection (3)) is to be the ‘appropriate officer’.

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