division_name: Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill &#8212; <i>Third Reading</i>
motion: <p class="italic" pid="a.1373.0/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Amendment 9</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.1373.0/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"> Moved by Baroness Browning</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/3" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"><b>9:</b> After Clause 79, insert the following new Clause-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/4" pwmotiontext="quot">"Policing protocol</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/5" pwmotiontext="lines">(1) The Secretary of State must issue a policing protocol.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/6" pwmotiontext="lines">(2) Each relevant person must have regard to the policing protocol in exercising the person's functions.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/7" pwmotiontext="lines">(3) The Secretary of State may at any time-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/8" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) vary the policing protocol, or</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/9" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) replace the policing protocol.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/10" pwmotiontext="lines">(4) Before varying or replacing the policing protocol, the Secretary of State must consult-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/11" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) such persons as appear to the Secretary of State to represent the views of elected local policing bodies,</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/12" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) such persons as appear to the Secretary of State to represent the views of chief officers of police of police forces maintained by elected local policing bodies,</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/13" pwmotiontext="lines">(c) such persons as appear to the Secretary of State to represent the views of police and crime panels, and</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/14" pwmotiontext="lines">(d) such other persons as the Secretary of State thinks fit.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/15" pwmotiontext="lines">(5) The functions of the Secretary of State under subsections (1) and (3) are exercisable by order.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/16" pwmotiontext="lines">(6) In this section-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/17" pwmotiontext="quot">"police and crime panel" means-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/18" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) each police and crime panel established in accordance with Schedule 6 (police areas outside London);</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/19" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) the London Assembly's police and crime panel (see section 33);</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/20" pwmotiontext="quot">"policing protocol" means a document which sets out, or otherwise makes provision about, ways in which relevant persons should (in the Secretary of State's view) exercise, or refrain from exercising, functions so as to-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/21" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) encourage, maintain or improve working relationships (including co-operative working) between relevant persons, or</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/22" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) limit or prevent the overlapping or conflicting exercise of functions;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/23" pwmotiontext="quot">"relevant persons" means-</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/24" pwmotiontext="lines">(a) the Secretary of State in the exercise of policing functions;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/25" pwmotiontext="lines">(b) each elected local policing body;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/26" pwmotiontext="lines">(c) the chief officer of each police force maintained by an elected local policing body;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1373.0/27" pwmotiontext="lines">(d) police and crime panels."</p>