Part 3: Police Workforce and Representative Institutions Chapter 1: Police workforce Section 42: Police volunteers: police barred list and police advisory list
This section amends the new Part 4A of the 1996 Act inserted into that Act by Schedule 8 to this Act.
	Subsection (2) imposes a duty on a chief officer to check that a person does not appear on the police barred list before designating him or her as a community support volunteer or a policing support volunteer. If the person is barred they may not be so designated. The intention is to prevent someone who has been dismissed as a police officer, special constable or designated member of police staff from being designated as a police volunteer. If the person appears on the police advisory list there is no bar on designating that person as a police volunteer, but the chief officer would be expected to take such information into account in deciding whether to proceed with the designation.
	Subsection (3) places a duty on a chief officer to report to the College of Policing that the designation of a police volunteer has been withdrawn for reasons relating to his or her conduct, efficiency or effectiveness. There is a similar duty to report to the College where a person stops volunteering as a police volunteer before an investigation about an allegation relating to his or her conduct, efficiency or effectiveness has been completed. A person so reported would have his or her name recorded on the police advisory list.
	Subsection (5) extends the regulation-making power in new section 88L(7) of the 1996 Act (inserted by Schedule 8) so as to require the Secretary of State, by regulations, to prescribe the circumstances in which the name of a former police volunteer must be removed from the police advisory list.