80(1)Section 88 (liability for wrongful acts of constables) is amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (5)(b) omit “or section 23 of the Police Act 1997”.
(3)After subsection (5) insert—
“(5A)This section shall have effect where, by virtue of section 23 or 24 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, a member of the staff of the Serious Organised Crime Agency who is neither a constable nor an employee of the police authority is provided to a police force as if—
(a)any unlawful conduct of his in the performance or purported performance of his functions were unlawful conduct of a constable under the direction and control of the chief officer of police of that force; and
(b)subsection (4) applied to him in the case of the police authority maintaining that force.”