The British Transport Police Force Scheme 1963 (Amendment) Order 1992

4.  After article 3 there shall be inserted the following articles—

“3A.   RETIREMENT OF SENIOR OFFICERS

(a) Subject to the provisions of this article, and without prejudice to the discipline regulations, the Committee may call upon a senior officer to retire in the interests of efficiency but the Committee shall give the senior officer an opportunity to make representations.

(b) Where representations are made under this article the Committee shall appoint one or more persons (who or, where more than one person is appointed, one of whom shall be a person who is not an officer of police or of a government department) to hold an inquiry and report to them and the Committee shall consider the representations and the report made under this paragraph.

(c) The costs reasonably incurred by a senior officer in respect of an inquiry held under this article shall be re-imbursed by the Committee.

(d) A senior officer who is called upon to retire as aforesaid shall retire on such date as the Committee may specify or on such earlier date as may be agreed upon between him and the Committee.

3B.   REPORTS BY CHIEF CONSTABLE, ETC

(a) The chief constable shall, not later than 30 June each year, submit in writing to the Committee a general report on the activities of the Force during the twelve months ending on the previous 31st March.

(b) The chief constable shall, whenever so required by the Committee in writing, submit to the Committee a written report on such matters as may be specified in the requirement, being matters connected with the activities of the Force.

(c) Regulation 6 of the Prosecution of Offences Regulations 1978(1)(which provides that chief officers of police in England and Wales shall give to the Director of Public Prosecutions information with respect to certain offences) shall apply to the chief constable as if he were a chief constable of police within the meaning of the Police Act 1964(2).

(d) In relation to police matters arising in England and Wales, the chief constable shall have regard to any guidelines relevant to such matters which may be issued from time to time by the Home Secretary, as if he were a chief officer of police within the meaning of the Police Act 1964.

(e) In relation to police matters arising in Scotland, the chief constable shall comply or ensure compliance with any instructions, and have regard to any guidelines, relevant to such matters which may be issued from time to time by—

(i) the Lord Advocate;

(ii) the sheriff principal having jurisdiction in the place to which the matters in question relate; or

(iii) the appropriate prosecutor in relation to the investigation of offences in that place,

as if he were a chief constable or, as the case may be, the chief constable of the police force within whose area the sheriff principal has jurisdiction, within the meaning of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(3) or the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975(4).

3C.   SPECIAL CONSTABLES

(a) Subject to and in accordance with the regulations listed in Part I of the Table to paragraph (c) below in relation to appointments in England and Wales, and subject to and in accordance with the regulations listed in Part II of that Table in relation to appointments in Scotland, the chief constable may, after consultation with the Committee, recommend such persons as he may think fit for appointment as special constables.

(b) Subject to the said regulations so far as applicable, all special constables shall be under the direction and control of the chief constable, and may be removed from office by the chief constable.

(c) The regulations listed in the Table to this paragraph shall have effect so far as applicable, subject to such adaptions as may be necessary for that purpose, as if special constables appointed in pursuance of this article were special constables for the purposes of those regulations.

TABLE

PART I—ENGLAND AND WALES

S.I. 1965 No. 536	The Special Constables Regulations 1965
S.I. 1968 No. 899	The Special Constables (Amendment) Regulations 1968

PART II—SCOTLAND

S.I. 1966 No. 97 (S.7)

The Police (Special Constables) (Scotland) Regulations 1966”

(1)

S.I. 1978/1357.

(2)

1964 c. 48.

(3)

1967 c. 77.

(4)

1975 c. 21.