(A) Conditions Of Service

Orders by Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Law Chief Constable of Hertfordshire.

Constabulary  Headquarters                                                                                                                                                            Hatfield                                                                                                                                                                                            21st April 1922

General Order No. 54. The Police Regulations of 20th August 1920 made by the Secretary of State under Section 4 of the Police Act 1919 as amended by the Police Regulations of the 24th March 1922.

Order number 166 of the 9th October 1920 is hereby cancelled and the following with effect as from 1st April 1922.

Appointment.

1). No person shall be eligible for appointment to, or shall be retained in, the Hertford County Constabulary, if:

a) He holds any other office or employment or carries on any business for hire or gain, or                                                b) He resides, without the consent of the Chief Constable, at any premises where his wife or any member of his family keeps a shop or carries on any like business, or                                                                                                              c) he holds, or his wife or any member of his family living with him holds, any licence granted in pursuance of the Liquor Licensing laws or the laws regulating places of Public entertainment in the County Police district or has any pecuniary interest in any such licence, or                                                                                                                                    d) his wife, without the consent of the Chief Constable keeps a shop or carries on any like business in the County Police district. For the purpose of this Regulation, the expression “member of his family” shall include parent, son or daughter, brother or sister.

2). A constable on first appointment shall be on probation for a period of one year. Provided that the Chief Constable may at his discretion,

a) extend the period of probation for a further period of six months if the conduct and efficiency, and the education and other qualifications of the constable are not of the required standard;                                                                          b) reduce the period of probation to a period not less than six months if the constable has served for a period of not less than six months in any other force to which these Regulations apply;                                                                            c) dispense with the period of probation if the constable has transferred with the written consent of the Chief Constable from another force to which these Regulations apply after having completed the required period of probation in that force.

3). During the period of probation the services of any constable may be dispensed with at any time

if the Chief Constable considers he is not fitted physically or mentally, or that he is not likely to become an efficient and well conducted constable.