SCHEDULES

Section 122

SCHEDULE 8E+WPowers of designated and accredited persons

Part 1E+WDesignated persons

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Community support officersE+W

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F13E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F14E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F15E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F16E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F18E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F19E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F110E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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F112E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Investigating officersE+W

F113E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F114E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F115E+W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Detention officersE+W

16E+WAfter paragraph 33 insert—

“33A“Taking of impressions of footwear

Where a designation applies this paragraph to any person—

(a)he shall, at any police station in the relevant police area, have the powers of a constable under section 61A of the 1984 Act (impressions of footwear) to take impressions of a person's footwear without the appropriate consent; and

(b)the requirement by virtue of section 61A(5)(a) of the 1984 Act that a person must be informed by an officer that an impression of his footwear may be the subject of a speculative search shall be capable of being discharged, in the case of a person at such a station, by his being so informed by the person to whom this paragraph applies.”

Part 2 E+WAccredited persons

17E+WSchedule 5 to the Police Reform Act 2002 (c. 30) (powers exercisable by accredited persons) is amended as follows.

18E+WIn paragraph 2 (power to require giving of name and address), in sub-paragraph (3), after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)an offence under section 3 or 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824; or”.

19E+WAfter paragraph 3 insert—

“3A“Power to require name and address: road traffic offences

(1)An accredited person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall, in the relevant police area, have the powers of a constable—

(a)under subsection (1) of section 165 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to require a person mentioned in paragraph (c) of that subsection who he has reasonable cause to believe has committed, in the relevant police area, an offence under subsection (1) or (2) of section 35 of that Act (including that section as extended by paragraphs 8B(4) and 9(2) of this Schedule) to give his name and address; and

(b)under section 169 of that Act to require a person committing an offence under section 37 of that Act (including that section as extended by paragraphs 8B(4) and 9(2) of this Schedule) to give his name and address.

(2)The reference in section 169 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to section 37 of that Act is to be taken to include a reference to that section as extended by paragraphs 8B(4) and 9(2) of this Schedule.”

20E+WAfter paragraph 8A insert—

“8B“Power to control traffic for purposes other than escorting a load of exceptional dimensions

(1)A person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall have, in the relevant police area—

(a)the power of a constable engaged in the regulation of traffic in a road to direct a person driving or propelling a vehicle to stop the vehicle or to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic;

(b)the power of a constable in uniform engaged in the regulation of vehicular traffic in a road to direct a person on foot to stop proceeding along or across the carriageway.

(2)The purposes for which those powers may be exercised do not include the purpose mentioned in paragraph 9(1).

(3)A person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall also have, in the relevant police area, the power of a constable, for the purposes of a traffic survey, to direct a person driving or propelling a vehicle to stop the vehicle, to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic, or to proceed to a particular point on or near the road.

(4)Sections 35 and 37 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (offences of failing to comply with directions of constable engaged in regulation of traffic in a road) shall have effect in relation to the exercise of the powers mentioned in sub-paragraphs (1) and (3), for the purposes for which they may be exercised and by a person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him, as if the references to a constable were references to him.

(5)A person's accreditation may not specify that this paragraph applies to him unless it also specifies that paragraph 3A applies to him.”

21E+WAfter paragraph 9 insert—

“9ZA“Photographing of persons given fixed penalty notices

An accredited person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall, within the relevant police area, have the power of a constable under section 64A(1A) of the 1984 Act (photographing of suspects etc.) to take a photograph, elsewhere than at a police station, of a person to whom the accredited person has given a penalty notice (or as the case may be a fixed penalty notice) in exercise of any power mentioned in paragraph 1(2).”