Overview Functions of Elected Local Policing Authorities Section 15: Supply of goods and services
100.Section 15 allows a police and crime commissioner and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime to make contracts with any public or private sector body in relation to the supply of goods and services.
101.Subsection (3) creates an exception to the general rule, in that an elected local policing authority is prohibited from making a contract with another such authority, or the Common Council in its capacity as the police authority for the City of London, in respect of matters that could be the subject of a collaboration agreement. This is to encourage authorities to make the full use of the arrangements for collaboration.
102.The section replicates the provision previously applying to police authorities.