Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 1: Functions relating to serious violence Section 14: Involvement of local policing bodies
Subsection (1) provides a power to a local policing body (namely, a police and crime commissioner, the Mayor’s Office for Police and Crime and the Common Council of the City of London in its capacity as a police authority) in a police area to assist a specified authority in the exercise of its function to prevent and reduce serious violence.
	Subsection (2) enables a local policing body to monitor the exercise by specified authorities of their functions under section 8 or 9, as the case may be.
	Subsection (3) allows a local policing body to report its findings under subsection (2) to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State may use evidence from such monitoring by a local policing body in deciding whether to exercise the direction-making power in section 18.
	Subsection (4) enables the Secretary of State, by regulations, to confer functions on a local policing body for the purposes of enabling it to assist specified authorities in discharging their functions under section 8 or 9.  A non-exhaustive list of the type of assistance that may be provided for in such regulations is set out in subsection (5), including the provision of funding and a convening role. Subsection (6) requires a specified authority to cooperate with a local policing body where that body decides to provide assistance to the specified authority under subsection (1), monitor in accordance with subsection (2) the discharge of the serious violence duty by the specified authority or exercise other functions in relation to the specified authority conferred by regulations made under subsection (4).