Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill

It is the phonetic alphabet; Sorry, I forget where I am. They are largely technical in nature. Amendments Nos. 166Charlie to 166Foxtrot give effect to a recommendation by the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. They provide that the secondary legislation that will set out a police officer’s right to legal representation and appeals under the disciplinary arrangements will be subject to the affirmative procedure on the first exercise of these powers. Amendments Nos.166Golf to 166Juliet allow the Secretary of State to set out in regulations the persons who can make representations to the Independent Police Complaints Commission on behalf of those who are the subject of an investigation into their conduct. Amendment No. 166Kilo provides that the new requirements to be placed on a person investigating a complaint, under new paragraphs 19Alpha to 19Delta to be inserted into Schedule 3 to the Police Reform Act 2002, will apply only where the complaint is in respect of a police officer or special constable and not in respect of police staff whose terms and conditions are covered by their contract of employment rather than uniform regulations. Amendments Nos. 166Lima and 166Mike provide for the definitions of ““gross misconduct”” and ““misconduct”” in the police officer disciplinary arrangements to appear in the Police Reform Act 2002 as amended by the Bill and for the ““Standards of Professional Behaviour”” for police officers and special constables to be set out in regulations. Again these two amendments respond to a recommendation by the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee. I beg to move.