Part 3: Police Workforce and Representative Institutions Chapter 1: Police workforce Section 43: Police volunteers: inspection
This section amends section 54 of the 1996 Act to make clear that , for the purposes of section 54, police volunteers are within the meaning of 'police force' in certain circumstances. Subsection (1) has the effect that police volunteers can be inspected by HMIC under section 54. Subsection (2) clarifies that those designated as community support volunteers or police support volunteers may not appeal against a notice requiring information or access to premises, in the same way as any other individual who is part of a police force for the purposes of section 54. This aligns with other provisions within the Act which seek to ensure that policing volunteers who are designated with powers are in the same position as other members of a police force.