Home Office - Consultation on reforming the powers of police staff and volunteers

The Home Office launched a consultation on “Reforming the powers of police staff and volunteers” The proposals consulted on were as follows:

To enable chief officers to designate a wider range of powers on police staff and volunteers;
To create a list of ‘core’ police powers that would remain exclusive to police officers;
To take an order-making power to enable Parliament to add to the list of those ‘core’ powers;
To enable volunteers to be designated with powers in the same way as staff;
To adopt new titles for the changed support role and the new volunteer role; and
To abolish the office of traffic warden under the Road Traffic Acts.

The PCC's response to the consultation can be viewed here.