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Subscribe to PNLDFrom the 7 May 2024, the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020 are amended by the Police (Conduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/521). These Regulations remove the independent legally qualified chair of police misconduct proceedings and replaces them with the chief officer of the relevant force, who will now chair misconduct hearings for non-senior officers.
In a routine check of a motor vehicle being driven on a road, it is discovered that the driver is a provisional licence holder. He is being supervised by a full licence holder who is evidently under the influence of alcohol.
Could drink/drive procedures be initiated in respect of the accompanying driver on the basis of him being in charge of the motor vehicle?
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