Part 2: Police Complaints, Discipline and Inspection Chapter 5: IPCC: Re-naming and Organisational Change Section 34: Exercise of functions
Subsection (2) amends section 10 of the 2002 Act (which sets out the general functions of the IPCC) and provides for all the current investigatory and other functions of the IPCC to be functions of the Director General. This includes the function to secure that public confidence is established and maintained in the system of police complaints.
	Subsection (6) inserts new sections 10A to 10D into the 2002 Act. New section 10A provides for the functions of the corporate body, "the Office", which include: ensuring that it has in place appropriate arrangements for good governance and financial management; determining and promoting the organisation’s strategic aims and values; providing support and advice to the Director General in carrying out his or her functions, and to monitor and review the carrying out of the Director General’s functions.
	Subsection (4) inserts new subsection (5A) into section 10 which provides that, in carrying out his or her functions, the Director General must have regard to any advice provided by the Office under the new section 10A(1)(c).
	New section 10B introduces a duty for the Director General and the Office to carry out their functions efficiently and effectively. New sections 10C and 10D contain provisions about the relationship between the Director General and the Office.
	New section 10C provides for the Director General and the Office jointly to prepare a strategy for the exercise of their functions, including planned use of resources. The strategy will serve as a business plan for the Office and Director General. New section 10C(1) provides that the strategy must be reviewed and, if appropriate, revised at least every 12 months. New section 10C(2) provides that the strategy must set out how the Director General and the Office propose to carry out their functions in the period covered the strategy. New section 10C(3) provides that the strategy is to include a plan for the use of resources for the carrying out of the functions of the Director General and the Office, during the period covered by the strategy. New section 10C(4) and (5) provides that the Director General and the Office must each give effect to the strategy and jointly publish the strategy stating the time from which it takes effect.
	New section 10D provides for the Director General and the Office to prepare jointly a code of practice dealing with the relationship between them. New section 10D(2) provides that in drawing up the code, the Director General and the Office must in particular seek to reflect the principle that the Director General is to act independently in carrying out his or her functions. New sections 10D(3) and (4) set out the provisions which must be included in the code. New sections 10D(5) to (7) provide that the Director General and the Office must jointly review the code regularly and, as appropriate, revise it, that they must each comply with the code and jointly publish a code (or revised code) stating the time from which it takes effect.