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COMPENSATION FOR CASUAL ESCORT DUTY - REGULATION 22 (7) (A).

At a meeting of Committee 'C' of the Police Negotiating Board held on 5th April 1990, clarification was given on the question of compensation for Casual Escort Duty.

Home Office Circular l42/l959 remains the definitive source of guidance and makes it clear that:-

a. all the time for which an officer was in charge of a person under escort should be counted;

b. the time 'necessarily spent in travelling' was not intended to be taken as limited to time spent in a public conveyance; it was intended to include, for example, time unavoidably spent at an intermediate stopping place while awaiting a connection and provided a safeguard against unduly protracted journeys;

c. the discretion of Chief Officers of Police to allow for overtime purposes time spent otherwise than in charge of the person under escort, or in travelling in connection with the escort duty, would enable account to he taken of time reasonably spent in taking charge of, or handing over, the person under escort, and time necessarily spent at the destination waiting for a return train;

d. where an officer is engaged on casual escort duty overnight and has proper sleeping accommodation, whether on a train or otherwise, the chief constable may exclude from the time which might otherwise count as overtime, any period, not exceeding 8 hours, during which the officer is not in charge of the person under escort.