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  "long_title": "These Regulations amend the Police Pensions Regulations 1987 to—provide for the pension rights of police officers who transfer to the National Criminal Intelligence Service or the National Crime Squad to be preserved or transferred (without payment of a transfer value) at the election of the officer (regulation 3);ensure that senior officers are entitled to immediate payment of pension at the end of fixed term appointments (regulation 4); andmake minor amendments (regulation 5)—consequential on the abolition of the ranks of deputy chief constable and deputy assistant commissioner;to bring City of London commanders within the provisions for compulsory retirement on account of age; andto update the definition of “central service” to include service in the National Criminal Intelligence Service, the National Crime Squad or the Police Information Technology Organisation.",
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