Correspondence

Circular: changes to Home Office guidance on police misconduct, unsatisfactory performance and attendance management procedures

This circular announces updated Home Office guidance on police misconduct, unsatisfactory performance and attendance management procedures.

• From: Home Office
• Published: 12 March 2015

Documents

Annex G: guidance on misconduct, legally-qualified chairs and special case hearings held in public

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Annex H: guidance on protections for whistleblowers

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Details

The new regulations set out in this circular will:

• increase transparency by requiring that police disciplinary hearings are held in public from 1 May 2015
• make these hearings fairer by ensuring that the chair is legally-qualified from January 2016
• protect police whistleblowers from unfair disciplinary action from 1 May 2015
• allow compensation to be withheld from Chief Officers in specific circumstances from 1 May 2015

Annexes G and H are advanced copies of guidance on these changes to the regulations. Annex G covers disciplinary hearings in public, legally-qualified chairs and withholding compensation for chief officers. Annex H covers protected disclosures for police whistleblowers.

A comprehensive version of the guidance, fully incorporating the changes to the regulations, will be published when the first regulations come into force on 1 May 2015.

Published 12 March 2015