POLICE ACT 1892 - SECT 8
POLICE ACT 1892 - SECT 8
8 . Commissioned and non-commissioned officers, removal of
(1) The Governor may,
from time to time as he shall see fit, remove any commissioned officer of
police, and upon any vacancy for a commissioned officer, by death, removal, or
otherwise, the Governor may appoint some other fit person to fill the same;
and the Commissioner of Police may, from time to time, as he shall think fit,
suspend and, subject to the approval of the Minister, remove any
non-commissioned officer or constable; and in case of any vacancy in the
Police Force by reason of the death, removal or otherwise of any
non-commissioned officer or constable, the Commissioner of Police may appoint
another person to fill such vacancy.
(2) The powers of
removal referred to in subsection (1) can be exercised only if the
Commissioner of Police has complied with section 33L and that removal action
has not been revoked under section 33N(1).
(3) Subsection (2)
does not apply where a person is removed from a commissioned office to be
appointed to another commissioned office so long as that appointment —
(a) is
to an office at a level not less than the level of the office from which the
person was removed; or
(b) is
made with the consent of the person.
(4) Subsection (2)
does not apply to the removal of a police probationary constable.
[Section 8 amended: No. 24 of 1969 s. 3; No. 7 of
2003 s. 4; No. 19 of 2019 s. 4.]