Allowances

Expenses

Annex V Determination for Regulation 35:

• Food and Accommodation Expenses
  When a member of a police force is retained on duty beyond his normal daily period of duty, they shall be reimbursed the cost of any meal they then necessarily obtain provided that expenditure is reasonable and backed by a receipt.
  An officer has to be retained on duty in excess of two hours past their normal finish time to claim this allowance.
• Refreshments, subsistence and lodging
  These allowances were discontinued from 1 April 2003. Instead, officers will be reimbursed expenditure incurred in the course of duty provided it is: necessary, reasonable, additional to what the officer would otherwise have incurred and backed by a receipt
• Food and accommodation expenses
  Members who are prevented in the course of a tour of duty or shift from obtaining a meal in their usual way will be reimbursed the difference between the meal obtained and the meal they would usually take in the course of that tour.
  Members retained on duty beyond their normal daily period of duty or shift (in excess of two hours) will be reimbursed the cost of any meal necessarily obtained.
  Members will be reimbursed accommodation expenses necessarily incurred in connection with duty away from their usual place of duty or because of being retained on duty beyond their normal daily period of duty or shift.
  In all cases, receipts will need to be presented, and the expenditure must be reasonable.