Report Summary
This report provides members of the People Committee with an Assurance paper on the process for selection for acting/temp ranks.
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Meeting
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People Committee - 31 May 2023
Date : 31 May 2023
Location : online
Background
The Police Service of Scotland (Promotion) Regulations 2013 state:
Regulation 7 – Temporary Promotion:
(1) Paragraph (2) (below) applies to a constable who—
(a) Is required to perform the duties of a higher rank; and
(b) Has obtained the qualifying diploma or completed the PLDP.
(2) A constable to whom this paragraph applies may be promoted temporarily to that higher rank, for such period and on such conditions as the chief constable may determine.
The Police Promotion Exams are no longer offered by Police Scotland and the Diploma in Police Service Leadership and Management DPSLM, or ‘qualifying diploma’ as per the Regulations concluded in 2021. The mechanisms to become qualified for promotion therefore no longer exist, out with the Police Leadership Development Programme PLDP.
