{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-efficiency-regulations-1999/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-efficiency-regulations-1999/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/732",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Efficiency) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-efficiency-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Procedure at second interview",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions of this Regulation shall apply to the procedure to be followed at a second interview.\n(2) The interview shall be conducted by the countersigning officer and the personnel officer.\n(3) The countersigning officer shall—\n(a) explain to the member concerned the reasons why the reporting officer is of the opinion that the member concerned has failed to make a sufficient improvement in his performance or, as the case may be, that his performance is unsatisfactory and the conditions specified in regulation 8(2) are satisfied; and\n(b) provide the member concerned, or the member of a police force who has accompanied him to the interview, or both of them, with an opportunity to make representations in response.\n(4) If, after considering any representations made under paragraph (3), the countersigning officer is satisfied that the performance of the member concerned has been unsatisfactory during the period specified by the interviewing officer under regulation 6(3)(c) or, as the case may be, the period specified in regulation 8(2), he shall—\n(a) inform the member concerned in what respect his performance is considered unsatisfactory;\n(b) warn the member concerned that he is required to improve his performance in any such respect;\n(c) inform the member concerned of any specific action which he is required to take to achieve such an improvement; and\n(d) warn the member concerned that, if a sufficient improvement is not made within such reasonable period as the countersigning officer shall specify, he may be required to attend an inefficiency hearing at which the officers conducting the hearing will have the power, if appropriate, to require the member concerned to resign from the force or to order reduction in rank.\n(5) The countersigning officer may adjourn the interview to a specified later time or date if it appears to him necessary or expedient to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/528",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Efficiency) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/528",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Efficiency) (Amendment) Regulations 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "rev in pt",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/2600",
      "affecting_title": "The Police (Efficiency) (Amendment No. 2) Regulations 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/732/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:06.421285+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}