Police challenge retirement rule
Five police forces are being taken to employment tribunal after hundreds of officers were forced out of their jobs after 30 years.
Under regulation A19, officers below chief officer rank with 30 years’ service can be made to retire. Hundreds of officers were required to leave under the rule, and now Nottinghamshire, Devon and Cornwall, North Wales, South Wales and West Midlands police forces are being taken to tribunal.
Chairman of the Nottinghamshire Police Federation Phill Matthews said a small number of test cases will be heard, starting on February 11. A total of 153 officers from the force were made redundant under the rule.