Register to be kept by the Commission

25.—(1) The Commission shall establish and maintain a register of all information supplied to it by a police authority or chief officer under Part 2 of the 2002 Act.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Commission may publish or otherwise disclose to any person any information held on the register provided that the publication or disclosure is necessary for or conducive to the purpose of—

(a)learning lessons from the handling of, or demonstrating the thoroughness and effectiveness of local resolutions, of investigations by the Commission, or of managed or supervised investigations;

(b)raising public awareness of the complaints system; or

(c)improving the complaints system.

(3) Information may not be published or disclosed in circumstances where in the opinion of the Commission the non-disclosure of information is necessary for the purposes mentioned in regulation 12(1)(a) and (b).