The Home Office has published:
– A circular about new former police officer and barred list regulations;
– An amended determination on retirement; and
– Amended Home Office guidance.
Time to go? Compulsory retirement of police officers.
- It is a legitimate aim for police forces “to achieve efficiency by reducing officer numbers with certainty”.
- Police Forces had no other means of achieving certainty in their staff reductions other than by the use of A19, due to the limited ways in which officers can be dismissed.
- This finding demonstrates that the crucial question of whether a PCP is justified may depend on how the “legitimate aim” is phrased.