The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004

Procedure on receipt of notice

18.—(1) The officer concerned shall be invited to state in writing, within 14 days of the date on which he is notified that the last of the documents required by regulation 14(1) to be supplied to him has been so supplied—

(a) whether or not he accepts that his conduct did not meet the appropriate standard;

(b) in a case where regulation 17 applies, whether he wishes to be legally represented at the hearing;

(c) whether he proposes to call any witnesses to relevant facts at the hearing and the names and addresses of any such witnesses whose attendance he wishes to be secured.

(2) Any witness whose attendance the officer concerned wishes to be secured who is a member of a police force shall be ordered to attend at the hearing of the case, and the appropriate authority (in the case of a senior officer) or supervising officer (in any other case), where so requested, shall cause any other such witnesses to be given due notice that their attendance is desired and of the time and place of the hearing.

(3) Nothing in this regulation shall require a hearing to be adjourned where a witness is unable or unwilling to attend the hearing.