Part 3: Police Workforce and Representative Institutions Chapter 1: Police workforce Section 40: Training etc of police volunteers
This section provides powers to the College of Policing to issue guidance about the designation and training of volunteers who are to be given powers under these provisions. Subsection (1) inserts new section 53F (Guidance about designated police volunteers) into the 1996 Act, which enables the College of Policing to issue guidance on relevant experience and qualifications that it would be appropriate for a person to have before being designated as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer, and the training that should be undertaken by said volunteer before or after being designated.
	New section 53F(3) provides that any such guidance issued by the College of Policing, including any revisions, must be published, while new section 53F(4) provides that each chief officer of police must have regard to any such guidance issued by the College of Policing under this section in making appointments and issuing designations.
	Section 97 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 provides for the Secretary of State to make regulations about police training. Subsection (2) extends that regulation-making power to include designated volunteers in the police training regulations.
	In consequence of these provisions, paragraph 3 of Schedule 12 repeals the obsolete section 45 of the 2002 Act, which enabled the Secretary of State to issue a code of practice around the designation process for staff, but which was never brought into force. Schedule 12 also makes a number of other consequential changes to other legislation to take account of the changes made by section 37, including to provisions relating to collaboration agreements between forces (paragraphs 1 and 10).