Part 2: Police Complaints, Discipline and Inspection Chapter 1: Police Complaints Section 22: Oversight functions of local policing bodies
Sections 1 and 3 of the 2011 Act set out that the relevant local policing body in a police area in England and Wales must hold to account the chief officer for that area in the exercise of a number of functions. Section 6ZA of the 1996 Act allows for the Secretary of State to make regulations conferring functions on the Common Council (the local policing body for the City of London Police).
	Implicit in the above sections is the ability for local policing bodies to hold the chief officer to account in their statutory duties in regard to police complaints under Part 2 of the 2002 Act. Given the expansion of the role of local policing bodies in handling complaints, this section amends sections 1 and 3 of the 2011 Act and section 6ZA of the 1996 Act, to provide for an explicit duty for local policing bodies to hold to account the chief officer in regard to the handling of complaints under Part 2 of the 2002 Act.