The Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1821

POLICE

The Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988

Made

24th October 1988

Laid before Parliament

31st October 1988

Coming into force

1st December 1988

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 33 of the Police Act 1964(1), and after taking into account the representations made by the Police Advisory Board for England and Wales and the recommendations made by the Police Negotiating Board for the United Kingdom, and furnishing each of the said Boards with a draft of the Regulations in accordance with section 46(3) of that Act(2) and section 2(1) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980(3), I hereby make the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Police (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988.

2.  These Regulations shall come into force on 1st December 1988 and shall have effect for the purposes of regulation 3(a) as from 1st July 1987 and for the purposes of regulation 3(c) and (d) as from 1st September 1988.

3.  The Police Regulations 1987(4) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in regulation 39 (London weighting) for the words “by £945” there shall be substituted the words “in respect of the period from 1st July 1987 to 30th June 1988 by £1,017 and with effect from 1st July 1988 by £1,089”;

(b) in regulation 19(2) (contents of personal records) the words “, if the member so requests” shall be omitted and there shall be inserted at the end, but not as part of paragraph (ii) of the proviso, the words “but in the case of a period free from punishment other than a caution which expires before 1st January 1989 only if the member so requests”;

(c) in Schedule 5 (scales of pay) —

(i) for tables A and B there shall be substituted respectively the tables set out in the Appendix to these Regulations;

(ii) in paragraph 2(2) there shall be inserted after the word “force” the words “on or before 31st August 1988”; and

(iii) after paragraph 2(2) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs:

“(2A) In the case of a constable who first became a member of a police force after 31st August 1988 and after he had attained the age of 22 years, his annual pay during the period which ends on 31st August 1989 shall be £10,512 and during the remainder of the period before he completes 2 years of reckonable service shall be determined in accordance with Table B as if at all times during the latter period he had two years' reckonable service.

(2B) In the case of a constable who became a member of a police force after 31st August 1988 and before he had attained the age of 22 years, his annual pay during the period which ends on 31st August 1989 shall be £8,352.”;

(d) in paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 (dog handler’s allowance) for the words “£612” in sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the words “£663” and for the words “£831” in sub-paragraph (b) there shall be substituted the words “£903”.

Douglas Hurd

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

24th October 1988

APPENDIX TABLES SUBSTITUTED FOR TABLES IN SCHEDULE 5 TO THE POLICE REGULATIONS 1987 WITH EFFECT FROM 1ST SEPTEMBER 1988

Table A

		Annual Pay
Rank	Service in Rank	London	Provinces
		£	£
Chief Superintendent	Less than 1 year	28,494	28,494
	After 1 year	28,902	28,902
	After 2 years	29,550	29,550
	After 3 years	30,255	30,255
Superintendent	Less than 1 year	26,283	25,629
	After 1 year	26,799	26,283
	After 2 years	27,309	26,934
	After 3 years	27,831	27,831
Chief Inspector	Less than 1 year	19,743	18,840
	After 1 year	20,229	19,368
	After 2 years	20,748	19,896
	After 3 years	21,303	20,424
	After 4 years	21,855	20,958
Inspector	Less than 1 year	17,487	16,593
	After 1 year	17,973	17,112
	After 2 years	18,609	17,784
	After 3 years	19,182	18,309
	After 4 years	19,743	18,840
Sergeant	Less than 1 year	14,466	14,466
	After 1 year	15,123	15,123
	After 2 years	15,654	15,654
	After 3 years	16,173	16,173
	After 4 years	16,593	16,593

Table B

ANNUAL PAY OF CONSTABLES

Reckonable Service	Annual Pay
	£
Before completing 1 year of service	9,063
After 1 year of service	9,690
After 2 years of service	11,406
After 3 years of service	11,676
After 4 years of service	12,063
After 5 years of service	12,477
After 6 years of service	12,876
After 7 years of service	13,275
After 8 years of service	13,688
After 12 years of service	14,466
After 15 years of service	15,123

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Police Regulations 1987. Regulation 3(a) increases London weighting with effect from 1st July 1987 and again from 1st July 1988; regulation 3(c) increases pay and regulation 3(d) increases the dog handler’s allowance, both with effect from 1st September 1988 (retrospection is authorised by section 33(4) of the Police Act 1964). Regulation 3(b) provides for records of punishments to be removed from a police officer’s personal record at the expiration of a specified period automatically instead of at the officer’s request where the specified period ends on or after 1st January 1989.

(1)

1964 c. 48.

(2)

Section 46(3), as amended by section 4(6) of the Police Act 1969 (c. 63), was amended by section 2(4) of the Police Negotiating Board Act 1980 (c. 10).

(3)

1980 c. 10.

(4)

S.I. 1987/851, amended by S.I. 1987/1753, 1988/727.