Police Service of Northern Ireland (Recruitment of Police Support Staff) Regulations 2002
These regulations make provision for the recruitment of police support staff. They give effect to recommendations of the Independent Commission on Policing in Northern Ireland in its report “A New Beginning: Policing in Northern Ireland” (“the Patten Report”) published on 9th September 1999. They apply only to posts to which candidates are to be appointed under section 4(3) of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000.