Part 2: The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) The ICRIR, the Commissioners and ICRIR officers Section 6: Operational powers of ICRIR officers
This section sets out the operational powers of ICRIR officers. Section 3 subsection (4) of this Act defines an ICRIR officer as being the Commissioner for Investigations as well as persons employed or seconded under that section.
	Subsection (1) provides the Commissioner for Investigations with the same powers and privileges of a constable. These powers and privileges are a combination of the powers and privileges available at common law and statute, which includes the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 in England and Wales, and the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 in Northern Ireland. In Scotland these powers and privileges are derived from a mixture of common law and statute including the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.
	Subsection (2) provides that the Commissioner for Investigations may designate any other ICRIR officer as a person having the powers and privileges of a constable, if the Commissioner for Investigations is satisfied that the officer in question is: capable of effectively exercising those powers and privileges; has received adequate training in respect of the exercise of those powers and privileges; and is otherwise a suitable person to exercise those powers and privileges.
	Subsection (3) provides that the powers and privileges of a constable are only exercisable by the Commissioner for Investigations and any other designated ICRIR officer for the purposes of, or in connection with, any function of the ICRIR (other than the function of producing the historical record.
	Subsection (4) introduces Schedule 2, which makes further provision about the operational powers of ICRIR officers.