Regulation 20 Person conducting the hearing: senior officers
Where a case concerning a senior officer is referred to a hearing it shall be heard by a tribunal consisting of a single person selected and appointed by the appropriate authority from a list of persons nominated by the Lord Chancellor.
To assist the tribunal on matters pertaining to the police there shall also be appointed by the appropriate authority one or more assessors selected by that authority with the approval of the tribunal one of whom is or has been a chief officer of police, so, however, that there shall not be so appointed—
a person who is one of Her Majesty’s inspectors of constabulary;
the chief officer or former chief officer of any force under whom the senior officer concerned has served as a senior officer in the previous five years;
a member, officer or servant of the appropriate authority or of any local authority which appoints any member of the appropriate authority.