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Mr William Old
Sergeant Mike Reed
[FOI #23140 email]
Information Management Services
[email address]
Direct line
Direct fax
020 7601 2530
020 7601 2323
Your ref:
Our ref: COL/9/563
02 December 2009
Dear Mr Old
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REF: COL/9/563
I write in connection with your request for information dated 13 November 2009 in which you
seek access to the following information:
Part 9 of Annex ‘F’ (a Determination for Regulation 24 of the Police Regulations
2003) sets out the procedure for the payment of Competence Related Threshold
Payment (‘CRTP’) to police officers up to the rank of Chief Inspector. Paragraphs 1
to 6 set out the entitlement for this payment, and paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 set out the
circumstances in which payment may be ceased, i.e. re-assessment due to concerns
with respect to the maintenance of high professional standards by a member in
receipt of the payment, promotion to a higher rank, and temporary promotion to a
higher rank, respectively.
There are no provisions in the Determination, or under any other statute, that make it
lawful for payment of CRTP to be ceased whilst a member of a police force is in
receipt of temporary salary under Regulation 27(a) and Annex ‘I’, i.e. the member
has been required to perform the duties normally performed by a member of the
force of a higher rank than his own (‘acting-up’).
As a consequence of some forces failing to comply with Regulations as described,
agreement of both sides in PNB of the correct interpretation (as set out in PNB
Circular 4/2008) led to the issue of Home Office Circular 18/2008 in which forces
were advised that paragraph 14 of the PNB Circular (‘Officers who are on acting up
should receive their CRTP’) will take effect from the 1st July 2008.
I seek to establish:
Bishopsgate Police Station
182 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 2NP
Tel 020 7601 2530
Textphone 020 7601 2906
www.cityoflondon.police.uk
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1. Whether or not your force complies with Home Office Circular 18/2008 and Police
Regulations and Determinations as described above, by continuing to pay CRTP to a
member who, having been awarded CRTP, is in receipt of temporary salary (NB –
‘acting up’, not temporarily promoted to a higher rank under Regulation 27(b) and
Annex ‘J’).
If you do not so comply:
2. Please advise by what legal authority your force ceases making such payments; and
3. Please advise what action you take when an inspector, on pay point 3 (top rate) and
in receipt of CRTP, is required to perform the duties of a Chief Inspector, whose pay
is less than that of such an officer. NB - the exception set out in paragraph 9 of Part 9
of Annex ‘F’ does not to temporary salary - it applies only to temporary promotion
under Regulation 27(b).
The City of London Police complies with Home Office circular 18/2008.
Should you have any further questions regarding your request, please contact me via email,
letter or telephone, quoting the reference number above.
Yours sincerely
Sergeant Mike Reed
Information Management Services
Bishopsgate Police Station
182 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 2NP
Tel 020 7601 2530
Textphone 020 7601 2906
www.cityoflondon.police.uk
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