The Police (Conduct) Regulations 2004

3.  For regulation 14 there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“14— (1) The appropriate authority or the appropriate officer, as the case may be, shall ensure that, as soon as practicable, the officer concerned is given written notice of the decision to refer the case to a hearing and supplied with copies of—

(a) the certificate issued under regulation 11(6)(b)(i);

(b) any statement he may have made to the investigating officer; and

(c) any relevant statement, document or other material obtained during the course of the investigation.

(2) The notice given under paragraph (1) shall specify the conduct of the officer concerned which it is alleged failed to meet the appropriate standard and the paragraph of the Code of Conduct in respect of which the appropriate standard is alleged not to have been met.

(3) In this regulation any reference to a copy of a statement shall, where it was not made in writing, be construed as a reference to a copy of an account thereof.

(4) In the case of an officer who is not a senior officer, the officer concerned shall be invited to an interview with the appropriate officer at which he shall be given the notice mentioned in paragraph (1), but if the officer concerned fails or is unable to attend that interview, the notice and copy document referred to in that paragraph shall be—

(a) delivered to the officer concerned personally, or

(b) left with some person at, or sent by recorded delivery to, the address at which he is residing.

(5) In the case of a senior officer, if the appropriate authority does not proceed as mentioned in regulation 13(1) or (2), the notice mentioned in paragraph (1) shall be given to that officer by an independent solicitor instructed by the appropriate authority to this effect.

(6) The reference in paragraph (5) to an independent solicitor is a reference to a solicitor who is not a member, officer or servant of the appropriate authority or of any local authority which appoints any member of the appropriate authority.”.