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Independent Review of Police Officer and Staff Remuneration and Conditions – Final Report
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Specialist Skills Threshold final point in the pay scale for any Federated policing
rank, and all police staff grades; to be eligible for
progression to this point, an individual must achieve
skills accreditation in a qualifying policing discipline;
see Chapter 9
SPNAC Senior Police National Assessment Centre; a stage in
the appointment of officers to ACPO rank; officers
must have passed this assessment stage before they
may proceed to the Strategic Command Course; see
Chapter 3
SPP Special Priority Payment
SSRB Senior Salaries Review Body
staff side one of the two sides of the Police Negotiating Board
(the other being the official side), consisting of
representatives of the police officer staff associations
Strategic Command Course prepares selected police officers for promotion
to the most senior ranks in the service; open to
superintendents, chief superintendents and police staff
equivalents; see further ‘SPNAC’
Superintendents’ Association Police Superintendents’ Association of England and
Wales, the staff association for police officers at
superintendent and chief superintendent ranks
Trenchard Hugh Trenchard, 1 st Viscount Trenchard (1873 – 1956);
appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in
1931 during a period of low morale and public criticism
of the police; a distinguished senior military officer
instrumental in the foundation of the Royal Air Force,
who served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1919 to 1930;
one of Lord Trenchard’s main concerns was the lack
of “officer material” in the Metropolitan Police; he
proceeded to tackle the problem with the establishment
of the police college at Hendon and a scheme to
promote outstanding constables and academically
qualified entrants directly to the rank of inspector; see
Chapter 3
Trenchard scheme scheme of direct entry to the police service at the rank
of inspector operated by the Metropolitan Police in the
the Metropolitan Police College in Hendon, beginning
in 1934; see Chapter 3
UNISON largest of the trade unions representing police staff in
England, Scotland and Wales; has approximately 44,000
police staff members
Unite largest trade union in Britain; represents 1.5 million
workers in many sectors of the economy