The Police (Collaboration: Specified Function) Order 2012

• Citation: S.I. 2012/1690
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Police (Collaboration: Specified Function) Order 2012, and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Section 2 Police air support

The Secretary of State specifies the provision of police air support as a police function to be exercised in relation to all police areas in accordance with police collaboration provision contained in a single collaboration agreement which relates to all of those police areas.

Section 3 Police air support

For the purposes of article 2 “the provision of police air support” includes—

(a) the operation of aircraft by and on behalf of police forces;

(b) the provision of staff, aircraft, equipment, air bases, ground control facilities, maintenance facilities and other resources necessary for such air operations;

(c) the maintenance of arrangements for the management of such air operations.