APPENDIX C
POLICE SERVICE COMMISSION
We agree that a Police Service Commission shall be set up by the same kind of constitutional or legislative provision as that applying to the Public Service Commission.
2.The Commission will be appointed by the High Commissioner in his discretion, after consultation with the responsible Minister, as follows:-
- (i) as Chairman, for a specific term of years, an independent person of high standing who has taken no recent active part in politics.
- (ii) as members, persons of no pronounced political affiliations;
- (iii) one or more persons possessing legal qualifications, to be appointed after consultation with the Chief Justice.
3. The functions of the Commission will be:-
- (a) to deal with the appointments and promotions of members of the police force of the rank of Inspector and above, save only that the appointment of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners of Police will be a matter for the High Commissioner in his discretion after consultation with the Minister responsible.
- (b) to deal with serious breaches of discipline by gazetted officers.
- (c) to deal with disciplinary appeals where a right of appeal exists against the decision of the Commissioner of Police.
4.The disciplinary functions of the Commission will be without prejudice to any right of appeal to the Head of State which may be prescribed.
5.The Commission will work on general instructions contained in the instrument establishing it, supplemented in detail by regulations laid down from time to time by the Commission with the approval of the High Commissioner in Executive Council.
