The Act Commentary on Sections Schedule 7: Powers exercisable by accredited inspectors
174.Schedule 7 inserts a new Schedule 5A in the Police Reform Act 2002 which sets out the powers that chief officers may confer on the TSOs they accredit under new section 41A of the 2002 Act.
175.Paragraph 1 of Schedule 5A permits an accredited TSO, whose accreditation applies that paragraph to him, to issue fixed penalty notices in respect of offences of disorder specified in his accreditation. Paragraph 2 gives an accredited TSO, whose accreditation applies that paragraph to him, the power to require persons suspected of having committed a fixed penalty offence specified in his accreditation to provide their name and address. (Refusal to provide a name and address when required to do so by a TSO is an offence under paragraph 2(2).) Paragraph 3 confers on an accredited TSO, whose accreditation applies that paragraph to him, the power of a constable to take photographs, elsewhere than at a police station, of persons to whom he has issued penalty notices.