The Police Service of Scotland (Performance) Regulations 2013

Interpretation

2.    In these Regulations—

“the 1996 Regulations” means the Police (Efficiency) (Scotland) Regulations 1996(1);

“the Act” means the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012;

“appellant” means a constable making an appeal under regulation 20;

“chairing constable” means the individual appointed under regulation 15(1);

“countersigning officer” means a constable who is of a higher rank than the reporting officer appointed for the purposes of any proceedings under these Regulations;

“first interview” means the interview arranged under regulation 6;

“inefficiency hearing” means (unless the context otherwise requires) the hearing arranged under regulation 14;

“interviewing officer” means (unless the context otherwise requires) the individual appointed under regulation 6 to conduct the first interview;

“personnel officer” means a member of the police staff or a constable who, in either case, has been assigned functions in relation to proceedings under these Regulations;

“police force” means a police force maintained, before 1st April 2013, under the Police (Scotland) Act 1967(2);

“reporting officer” means (unless the context otherwise requires) a constable of a rank not lower than sergeant who has immediate supervisory responsibility for the constable in respect of whom proceedings under these Regulations are taken;

“senior manager” means—

(a)

the individual who is, for the time being—

(i)

supervising the individual who is the countersigning officer; or

(ii)

the local commander of the division to which the constable is assigned; or

(b)

where the countersigning officer mentioned in paragraph (a)(i) is of the same rank as the local commander of the division to which the constable is assigned, that local commander;

“second interview” means the interview arranged under regulation 10;

“the constable” means (unless the context otherwise requires) a constable to whom these Regulations apply and in respect of whom proceedings under these Regulations are taken; and

“transferred constable” means an individual who—

(a)

before 1st April 2013 was serving as a constable of a police force (excluding any such individual who was, immediately before that date, engaged on relevant service within the meaning given by section 38A(1) of the Police (Scotland) Act 1967);

(b)

is transferred to the Police Service under paragraph 6 of schedule 5 to the Act; and

(c)

is not a special constable.

(1)

S.I. 1996/1643.

(2)

1967 c.77.