Part 3: Police Workforce and Representative Institutions Chapter 1: Police workforce Section 41: Police volunteers: complaints and disciplinary matters
In the current police complaints system, police volunteers are not subject to the provisions for dealing with complaints under Part 2 of the 2002 Act. This means that any complaints made against a volunteer or any conduct issues identified are handled how the relevant force sees fit.
	Section 41 amends section 12 of the 2002 Act to bring volunteers designated as community support volunteers or investigation support volunteers (and who have certain powers of the constable conferred on them - see section 38) within the definition of individuals serving with the police. This means that those volunteers will be subject to the police complaints system as set out in Part 2 of the 2002 Act.
	Subsection (2) amends new section 87(4A)(a) of the 1996 Act (as inserted by section 32) to allow the Secretary of State to issue statutory guidance about functions in relation to the conduct, efficiency and effectiveness of community support volunteers and investigation support volunteers. Subsection (3) provides that, where such guidance is issued, those to whom the guidance is issued must have regard to it and a failure to have regard to the guidance will be admissible as evidence in the disciplinary proceedings.