The Food Crime Officers (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2025.

These Regulations apply in relation to the exercise by officers of their functions whilst on duty, and acting or operating under powers in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 or the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 in their capacity as officers, and confer functions on the Director General accordingly. In particular Regulation 4 extends application of Police Reform Act 2002 including powers of entry, search and seizure, and the interview of suspects in custody (but not the power of arrest) to the investigation of offences conducted by food crime officers within the NFCU of the FSA. The Regulations then clarify the general functions of the Office, the procedure for handling of complaints and conduct matters, etc. This instrument also applies provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJPOA) to investigations by food crime officers to enable them to issue 'special warnings’ to suspects in questioning under caution and for inferences to be drawn in certain situations