EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULE 1984 NO. 296
AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE REGULATIONS
(AMENDMENT)
ISSUED BY THE SPECIAL MINISTER OF STATE
Following a recent decision by Government to abolish the Protective Service Component of the Australian Federal Police and establish a new ‘Australian Protective Service’ within the Department of Administrative Services it become necessary to amend the Australian Federal Police Act 1979 and the Australian Federal Police Regulation (the Regulation).
At the same time the opportunity was taken to amend the Regulation to enable the recommendation of the Joint Management Review of the Australian Federal Police to be implemented in those instances where a head of power existed.
The Amendments to the Regulation will:
• Delete any reference to the AFP as a two component force;
• Place upon the Commissioner a responsibility for the proper conduct of a program of training courses for the Australian Federal Police;
• Establish pre-requisites for training courses;
• Remove Seniority as a criteria for promotion and make relative efficiency a prime criteria;
• Improve the processing time for the hearing of appeals; and
• Provide transitional arrangements designed to preserve appointments, promotions, appeal rights and transfer, oaths and undertakings made in relation to, and given by, persons who will continue to be members of the AFP also Terms and Conditions of service for those members who are to retire on medical grounds, will be preserved.
It is proposed to introduce the new regulation with effect from 20 October 1984.