(C) Conditions Of Service

Promotion.

17). Promotion up to the rank of Inspector shall, subject to qualifying examinations in police duties and educational subjects, be by selection.

18). No member of a Police Force shall be promoted to Sergeant or Inspector, unless:

I) if a constable, he has completed five years’ service and has for the last two years been free from punishment other than reprimand or caution, and if a sergeant, he has completed one year in that rank free from punishment other than reprimand or caution.

II) he has passed, after having completed not less than four years’ service an examination in educational subjects and an examination in police duties (and the latter examination has been passed within the preceding five years – this part was deleted vide Order 81/1923).

III) he has not less than one year’s service in the performance of ordinary outside police duty.

Provided that a member of the Police Force may be promoted before he has completed five years’ service or may be permitted to take the qualifying examination before he has completed 4 years’ service, if the Chief Officer of Police is satisfied that he possesses special qualifications for the performance of the particular duties on which he is employed. The requirement of paragraph (3) may be dispensed with in the case of a man who was serving on the 20th August 1920 and the expression “outside police duty” shall include detective duty.

19). The examinations shall be conducted by means of written papers and/or oral examinations upon the following subjects:

I) Examination in Educational Subjects, including:                                                                                                                      a) Reading aloud.                                                                                                                                                                              b) Writing, including handwriting, spelling, punctuation, and the writing and composition of reports.                              c) Arithmetic, for promotion to Sergeant, first four rules, simple and compound, including Imperial Weights and Measures and simple fractions; for promotion to Inspector first four rules, simple and compound, including Imperial Weights and Measures, reduction, vulgar fractions and decimals (excluding recurring decimals), ratio and proportion, average and percentage.                                                                                                                                            d) Geography, especially the geography of the British Isles.                                                                                                      e) General knowledge and intelligence.                                                                                                                                          f) Any special subject or subjects which may be required in the circumstances of a particular force or forces.

II) Examination in Police duties, including:                                                                                                                                      a) Criminal Law.                                                                                                                                                                                  b) Evidence and Procedure.                                                                                                                                                              c) General statutes, regulations and orders.                                                                                                                                d) Local Regulations and Byelaws.                                                                                                                                                  e) Extra duties performed by the particular force concerned.                                                                                                    f) Principles of Local Government,

The examination shall be held once in each year and subject to the provision of para. 22, any Sergeant or Constable who has completed 4 years’ service and has given due notice to the Chief Constable, shall be entitled to sit for the respective examination for these ranks. Paragraph replaced “and shall be held once in each year” vide Order 81/1923.

III). The papers on the educational subjects (b), (c), (d) and (e) shall be set and marked by a Central examining authority approved by the Secretary of State, or such other competent examining body as the Police Authority of the Force may adopt. The examinations in police duties, and where necessary, the educational subjects (a) and (f) shall be conducted by the Chief Officer of Police, or where the size of the force permits, a Board of Officers acting under his instruction.

20). The object of the required examinations is to test the educational and theoretical knowledge of the candidate, and the fact that he has passed them shall not entitle him to promotion, or to promotion before another member of the force who has passed the examination at a later date.

21). After each examination a list giving the names of the candidates who have passed shall be published to the force or forces concerned. The result of each examination shall be marked on the record of each candidate so as to show that, on the date in question, he passed or failed to pass, and a list shall be kept of all members of the force who have passed the respective examinations.

22). A candidate who fails to pass the examination in educational subjects or police duties shall be informed of the subject or subjects in which he has failed to pass, and failure to pass shall not disqualify a candidate from presenting himself at a future examination. Provided that no candidate shall be entitled to sit for either examination more than once in any year.