The Local Policing Bodies (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Order 2012
Section 1 of the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (“the 2011 Act”) provides for the replacement of police authorities in England and Wales outside London with police and crime commissioners. Section 2 of the Act establishes chief constables of police forces maintained by police and crime commissioners as corporations sole with the capacity to employ staff in their own right. Section 3 of the 2011 Act provides for the replacement of the Metropolitan Police Authority with the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime. Section 4 of the 2011 Act establishes the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (the chief officer of the metropolitan police force) as a corporation sole in the same way as a chief constable of a police force outside London. The 2011 Act does not change the policing governance arrangements in the City of London, where the Common Council continues to act as the police authority.