Annual Leave

The annual leave year is 1 April – 31 March. Entitlements (expressed in 8 hour days) will be as shown below:

Officers whose service date appears in the middle of an increment year will be entitled to leave as set out below.

Annual leave entitlements are calculated at the rate of each completed months service during the leave year. If you exit the service prior to end of the leave year, the 31st of March, then your annual leave entitlement will be reduced by 1/12th for each month not worked during the leave year.  

Carry Over

Subject to exigencies of duty you are entitled to:

- carry over no more than 5 additional days (40 hours) of annual leave into the following years annual leave period.

All requests for approval to carry forward annual leave, in addition to the 5 additional days (40 hours), must be submitted in the form of a report outlining the circumstances to the Head of Employee Relations (HR).

Sickness on Annual Leave

A member cannot be sick and on leave at the same time. Any annual leave falling within a period of sickness can be cancelled and taken at a later date as long as evidence can be provided of the sickness such as a Doctors fit note.

Recall from Annual Leave (Reg 33) Annex O Determination

A member is entitled to compensation where a recall from Annual Leave occurs.

Your entitlement under this regulation is now:

• 2 days’ leave for each of the first two days recalled OR if you elect,
• 1 days’ leave plus 1 day at double time payment for each of the first two days.

if you are recalled for more than two days, the third and any subsequent day is compensated at the rate of:

• 1.5 days leave for each day OR if you elect
• 1 days’ leave plus .5 days’ pay at double time in lieu of each such day

This applies to any period of absence of 3 or more days, where at least one day is shown as annual leave and the other days, if not annual leave, are rostered rest days, days taken as time off in lieu of overtime, public holidays (or days taken in lieu of such) monthly leave or any combination.

A day's pay to be defined as 8 hours, or the equivalent in respect of officers working alternative shift systems or part time. 

This is not considered to be 'overtime' and is claimable by the Inspecting rank. Any compensation for working on a rest day, with less than 15 days notice, during a qualifying period of annual leave will attract compensation for both the recall from annual leave AND the working on a rest day. 

For questions relating to being recalled from annual leave please see the Frequently Asked Questions page

Court on Annual Leave – Expenses

Officers attending court who are recalled from annual leave, or unexpectedly recalled from other leave, will be compensated in respect of expenses incurred as follows:-

• Any necessary travelling expenses incurred in attending court and returning to the holiday place;
• Any refreshment or subsistence allowance to which the officer may become entitled by reason of his attendance at Court;
• Expenditure over and above the allowance covered by the above, and within the limits of Police Regulations, necessarily incurred on food and lodgings because the officer’s home is closed.