# The Police (Vetting) Regulations 2025, Regulation 14: Record of withdrawal assessment

Extent: E+W

(1) The vetting authority must keep a record of each withdrawal assessment, including the decision on the outcome and the finding in any appeal by the officer concerned.
(2) The vetting authority must also keep a record where the officer concerned ceases to be a police officer by resigning or retiring before the vetting authority makes its vetting severity assessment or, where there must be a withdrawal assessment, before that assessment is concluded.
(3) The Secretary of State may require the vetting authority to publish, in such manner as appears to the Secretary of State to be appropriate, statistical data connected with any information recorded in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/502/regulation/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/police-vetting-regulations-2025/regulation-14
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