PART 4Special Classes of Person
Police service24
1
For the purposes of these Regulations, the holding, otherwise than under a contract of employment, of the office of constable or an appointment as a police cadet shall be treated as employment, under a contract of employment, by the relevant officer.
2
For the purposes of these Regulations, any constable or other person who has been seconded to SOCA to serve as a member of its staff shall be treated as employed by SOCA, in respect of actions taken by, or on behalf of, SOCA.
3
For the purposes of regulation 20—
a
the secondment of any constable or other person to SOCA to serve as a member of its staff shall be treated as employment by SOCA (and not as being employment by any other person); and
b
anything done by a person so seconded in the performance, or purported performance, of his functions shall be treated as done in the course of that employment.
4
In this regulation “the relevant officer” means—
a
in relation to a member of the police force or a special constable or police cadet appointed for a police area, the chief officer of police (or, in Scotland, the chief constable); and
b
in relation to any other person holding the office of constable or an appointment as a police cadet, the person who has the direction and control of the body of constables or cadets in question.
5
In this regulation “SOCA” means the Serious Organised Crime Agency.