{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020/regulation-32.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/3",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Performance) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-performance-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/32",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which a second stage meeting may be required without a prior first stage meeting",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where the appropriate authority—\n(a) decides that the performance of a police officer constitutes gross incompetence;\n(b) has a duty under paragraph 23(5B) of Schedule 3 to the 2002 Act (duties of appropriate authority in relation to direction by Director General to bring disciplinary proceedings) to comply with a direction, following a determination under paragraph 23(5A)(b) of that Schedule (duties of Director General on receipt or completion of report on investigation) that a person’s performance is unsatisfactory and amounts to gross incompetence;\n(c) decides to accept a recommendation made under paragraph 25(4C)(c) of that Schedule (reviews with respect to an investigation) that misconduct proceedings of the form specified in the recommendation are brought;\n(d) decides to accept a recommendation made under paragraph 25(4E)(c) of that Schedule that misconduct proceedings of the form specified in the recommendation are brought;\n(e) decides to accept a recommendation made under paragraph 27(3A) of that Schedule (recommendation of Director General to appropriate authority) that a police officer’s performance is unsatisfactory and amounts to gross incompetence, or\n(f) has a duty under paragraph 27(4)(b) of that Schedule (duties with respect to disciplinary proceedings etc) to comply with a direction to give effect to a recommendation referred to in sub-paragraph (c) or (e).\n(2) The appropriate authority must inform the officer concerned in writing that the officer is required to attend a meeting to consider performance where this regulation applies.\n(3) Such meeting is referred to in these Regulations as a second stage meeting, notwithstanding that the officer concerned has not attended a first stage meeting ... in respect of such performance.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(3) substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 39(3)(a) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32(3) omitted (28.5.2025) by virtue of The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 39(3)(b) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32 heading substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 39(2)(a) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 32 heading substituted (28.5.2025) by The Police (Conduct, Performance and Complaints and Misconduct) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/558), regs. 1(1), 39(2)(b) (with reg. 65)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 32 in force at 1.2.2020, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 23(5A) and (5B) was inserted by paragraphs 9 and 26 of Schedule 5 to the Policing and Crime Act 2017 (“the 2017 Act”) and paragraph 23(5A) was amended by paragraphs 15 and 56 of Schedule 9 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 25(4A) to (4J) was inserted by paragraphs 29 and 34(1) and (5) of Schedule 5 to the 2017 Act and amended by paragraphs 15 and 56 of Schedule 9 to that Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 27(3A) was inserted by section 138(2) and (4) of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) and amended by paragraph 56(2) of Schedule 9 to the 2017 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Paragraph 27(4) was amended by paragraphs 15 and 56 of Schedule 9 to the 2017 Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/3/regulation/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:05.619022+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."
}