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(10) If it appears to the Secretary of State that arrangements in a police area are not adequate for the purposes set out in subsection (1) above, he may require the body or person whose duty it is to make arrangements in that area to submit a report to him concerning the arrangements.

(11) After considering the report the Secretary of State may require the body or person who submitted it to review the arrangements and submit a further report to him concerning them.

(12) A body or person whose duty it is to make arrangements shall be under the same duties to consult when reviewing arrangements as when making them.

107.—(1) For the purpose of any provision of this Act or any other Act under which a power in respect of the investigation of offences or the treatment of persons in police custody is exercisable only by or with the authority of a police officer of at least the rank of superintendent, an officer of the rank of chief inspector shall be treated as holding the rank of superintendent if he has been authorised by an officer of at least the rank of chief superintendent to exercise the power or, as the case may be, to give his authority for its exercise.

(2) For the purpose of any provision of this Act or any other Act under which such a power is exercisable only by or with the authority of an officer of at least the rank of inspector, an officer of the rank of sergeant shall be treated as holding the rank of inspector if he has been authorised by an officer of at least the rank of chief superintendent to exercise the power or, as the case may be, to give his authority for its exercise.

108.—(1) The office of deputy chief constable is hereby abolished.

(2) In section 6 of the Police Act 1964—
 * (a) in subsection (1), after the word “a” there shall be inserted the words “person holding the rank of”; and
 * (b) in subsection (4), for the words from the beginning to “of”, in the second place where it occurs, there shall be substituted the words “Appointments or promotions to the rank of deputy chief constable or”.

(3) The following section shall be inserted after that section—
 * 6A.—(1) Any police force maintained under constables section 1 of this Act may include more than one person holding the rank of deputy chief constable, but only if the additional person or persons holding that rank—
 * 6A.—(1) Any police force maintained under constables section 1 of this Act may include more than one person holding the rank of deputy chief constable, but only if the additional person or persons holding that rank—