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F. REQUIREMENT TO WORK ON A REST DAY
Section 2.5 of the Police Officer Handbook
| Notice provided | Scenario | Entitlement |
| Less than 8 days’ notice | Officer is not required to attend a police station, police incident, or court | Minimum one hour payment or TOIL at double time. |
| Officer is required to attend a police station, police incident, or court | Minimum four hours’ payment or TOIL at double time and relevant travelling time. | |
| Between 8 and 17 days’ notice | Officer is not required to attend a police station, police incident, or court | Minimum one hour payment or TOIL at time and a half. See example 6 below. |
| Officer is required to attend a police station, police incident, or court | Minimum four hours’ payment or TOIL at time and a half and relevant travelling time. | |
| 18 or more days’ notice | Worked the rest day | Re-rostered rest day (NB. supervisor must notify officer of the RRRD within four days of notification of the requirement). |
| For inspecting and superintending ranks, required to work on a rest day with less than 48 hours’ notice | Worked the rest day for a minimum of 4 hours | An allowance of £99 per qualifying day. This is in addition to the RRRD. See section 4.9 for further conditions. |
Key Elements:
- The first three rows of the table above applies to constables and sergeants only.
- The fourth row applies to inspecting and superintending ranks only.
- Compensation can be payment or time off in lieu at the officer’s choice.
- The force day will consist of a period of 24 hours period commencing at 0700, unless a different time is otherwise fixed.
- In assessing the number of days’ notice given, the day after the officer is made aware of the changes in the roster will count as the first day. The day that was to have been a rest day will not be included in the total.
- Relevant travelling time of 45 minutes each way will only be paid in full if the total time claimed does not exceed 6 hours i.e. If 5.5 hours worked, only 0.5 hours travelling time is paid.
- Inspectors and chief inspectors required to work on a rest day are entitled to another rest day.
- In the fourth row, the allowance payable to inspecting and superintending ranks will be payable in the following circumstances:
- where the officer is required to work on a rest day during a period of on-call, or
- where the officer was detained on duty into a rest day, or
- where an officer’s rest day is re-rostered with less than 48 hours’ notice in anticipation of an operational need for which in the event he/she is not required to attend duty but the officer chooses to work on the rest day.
- see section 4.9 for further conditions.
Example 1:
Officer is cited on 1 April to attend on 9 April (rest day). The officer has received 7 days’ notice, as the first and ninth are not counted, so is entitled to payment or TOIL at double time.
Example 2:
Officer is cited on 1 April to attend on 19 April (rest day). The officer has received 17 days’ notice, as first and nineteenth are not counted, so is entitled to payment or TOIL at time and a half.
Example 3:
Officer is cited on 1 April to attend on 20 April (rest day). The officer has received 18 days’ notice, as the first and twentieth are not counted, so is entitled to a re-rostered rest day.
Example 4:
Officer works into a rest day immediately following normal period of duty (i.e. nightshift into a rest day) so will be entitled to payment or TOIL at double time for each completed period of 15 minutes worked.
Example 5:
Officer has completed a rostered period of duty on day one (0800 to 1600) and, with less than 8 days’ notice, is required to work again from 0600 to 1400 on day two, which is a rest day. The officer is entitled to 4 hours payment or TOIL at time and a third for the period between 0600 and 0700 then 7 hours payment or TOIL at double time for the period between 0700 to 1400.
Example 6:
An officer might be given between 8 and 17 days’ notice to participate in video conference from home and thereby is not required to attend a police station, police incident or court.