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This policy details the Job Related Fitness Test (JRFT), implemented by Surrey Police and Sussex Police for all police officers, Special Constables, specialist posts and newly recruited Police Community Support Officers and includes the fitness levels required and the Job Related Alternative (JRAFT) fitness levels. The procedures detail the support available to individuals in order to achieve and maintain the minimum standard required of them.

This policy and procedure detail the principles through which Surrey Police and Sussex Police will, as a result of organisational change, protect an employee’s salary, pensions and specific allowances when an individual is redeployed into a different post as an alternative to redundancy or who has been temporarily relocated to meet business needs. The key principles for redundancy payments for both Forces.

This policy details how Surrey Police and Sussex Police personnel should engage appropriately with members of the public that they meet while completing their duties. This is to ensure that appropriate relationships are maintained and any abuse of position which may lead to a sexual or improper emotional relationship is prevented.

The protection of the most vulnerable people in society is a core policing value. All police officers and staff have a statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children. We will do this by putting children at the heart of everything we do (a child-centred approach) to protect children vulnerable to abuse and neglect or exploitation, by hearing their voice and keeping them in focus when making decisions about their lives. We will work closely with all our statutory and voluntary partners to protect those most at risk. We are committed to making Surrey safe and for those who are most vulnerable to abuse feeling safe.

This policy has been produced in consultation with the College of Policing National Vetting Code of Practice (CoP) 2021 and the Authorised Professional Practice (APP) for vetting. It reflects the guidance and requirements as detailed in the 2012 National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) Guidance and the Police Regulations 2020 as amended

The National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) definition of Honour Based Abuse (HBA) is: ‘an incident or crime involving violence, threats of violence, intimidation, coercion or abuse (including psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional abuse), which has or may have been committed to protect or defend the honour of an individual, family and or community for alleged or perceived breaches of the family and/or community’s code of behaviour’.

In order to support the overall force objectives around the prevention and detection of crime, as well as to maintain public confidence in the criminal justice system, it is the policy of the Force to maximise all opportunities and use all legitimate means to ensure detainees admit to all like offences they have committed, allowing these offences to be taken into consideration at subsequent Court hearings.

This document outlines information in relation to Information Assets, Sharing and Disclosure, Data Quality and Retention and Disposal of Information

This Policy provides safety guidance to Surrey Police and Sussex Police officers and staff who are the first responders at water based incidents.

This document and associated procedure is designed to set out the justifications and expectations for Surrey Police in terms of its response to information or incidents of Modern Slavery. For the purposes of these documents Modern Slavery will use the definition within Parts 1 (Offence), 2 (Prevention and Risk Orders) & 5 (Protection of Victims) of the Modern Slavery Act (MSA) 2015: