Regulation 4A Police Leadership Development ProgrammeF1
The PLDP is the Police Leadership Development Programme, completed on or after 1st March 2021.
A constable may participate in the PLDP only if the constable has—
completed the required period of probation in the rank of constable; and
successfully applied for a place on the PLDP.
A constable who is to participate in the PLDP is to be promoted temporarily to the rank of sergeant on the first day of the constable participating in the PLDP, for such a period and on such conditions as the chief constable may determine.
For the purpose of paragraph (2)(a)—
“required period of probation” means the period of probation determined under regulation 8 of the Police Service of Scotland Regulations 2013;
a constable is taken to have completed the required period of probation if the constable has completed such period of probation, in any police force specified in regulation 8(4) of those Regulations, as is required of constables appointed to the rank of constable in that police force.
The Scottish Ministers must determine—
the application process and procedures in relation to the PLDP; and
the content and format of the syllabus upon which the PLDP will be based.
The Scottish Ministers may, in making a determination under paragraph (5), confer such functions on the Authority or the chief constable in relation to that determination as they think fit.
The chief constable may remove a constable from the PLDP if the chief constable considers that the constable is not performing satisfactorily on the PLDP.
Where a constable is removed from the PLDP under paragraph (7), the constable is no longer eligible to participate in the PLDP unless they successfully reapply for a place on the PLDP in accordance with paragraph (2)(b).
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Regs. 4A, 4B inserted (1.3.2021) by The Police Service of Scotland (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/453), regs. 1, 7