MALTA POLICE REGULATIONS

MALTA POLICE

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 164.01

MALTA POLICE REGULATIONS

22nd April, 1960

LEGAL NOTICE 14 of 1960, as amended by Ordinance II of 1961; Legal

Notices: 59 of 1975, 89 of 1978, 14 and 72 of 1979, 70 of 1980, 63 of 1981,

40 of 1982, 41 of 1987, 77 of 1989, 28 of 1993, 27 of 1995, 274 of 1998,

202 of 2001, 410 of 2007, 54 of 2015, 146 of 2017 71 of 2019 and 199 and

200 of 2020.

The title of these regulations is the Malta Police

Regulations.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires -

"the Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Police;

"the Force" means the Malta Police Force;

"these Islands" means the Island of Malta and its Dependencies;

"member of the Force" means any person serving in the Malta

Police Force, other than the Commissioner or the Acting

Commissioner.

A candidate for appointment as a constable in the Force

must -

(a) have attained eighteen years of age and not be above

thirty nine years of age;

(b) satisfy the Police Medical Officer that the candidate -

(i)

has a satisfactory height to weight ratio;

(ii)

has unaided visual acuity (Snellen) not worse

than 6/18 in each eye, or 6/12 in one eye and 6/

24 in the other, provided that it is corrected to, at

least, 6/6 in the better eye and 6/9 in the other,

with contact lenses or spectacles;

(iii) has a satisfactory safe colour vision; and

(iv) is medically fit in all respects, physically and

mentally, to perform all Police duties;

(c) speak and write Maltese and English to the satisfaction

of the Commissioner, and pass such physical and

educational examination as the Commissioner may

prescribe;

(d) be of exemplary character.

(1) Constables shall be classified as Constables First Class,

Constables Second Class, Constables Third Class and Probationary

Police Constables.

(2) A Probationary Police Constable shall serve in that

capacity for a period of not less than two (2) years; thereafter he

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may be on extended probation for such period as the Commissioner

may, in each particular case, direct

Provided that during the period of probation or extended

probation, the services of any constable may be forthwith dispensed

with at any time if the Commissioner so directs.

(3) A Probationary Police Constable who has served his'

period of probation, or extended probation in a satisfactory manner,

may be appointed Constable Third Class by the Commissioner.

(4) A Constable Third Class who has served in that capacity

for a period of not less than two (2) years in a satisfactory manner,

may be appointed Constable Second Class by the Commissioner.

(5) A Constable Second Class who has served in that capacity

for a period of not less than four (4) years in a satisfactory manner,

may be appointed Constable First Class by the Commissioner.

(6) A Constable First Class who has served in that capacity for a

period of not less than four (4) years in a satisfactory manner, may be

appointed as Senior Police Constable by the Commissioner.

(1) Sergeants shall be classified as Sergeants First Class,

Sergeants Second Class and Sergeants Third Class on probation.

(2) A Sergeant Third Class who has served in that capacity for

a period of not less than two (2) years in a satisfactory manner may

be appointed Sergeant Second Class by the Commissioner.

(3) A Sergeant Second Class who has served in that capacity

for a period of not less than four (4) years in a satisfactory manner

may be appointed Sergeant First Class by the Commissioner.

(1) Any member of the Force promoted to a rank not above

Superintendent shall be on probation in the rank to which he is

promoted for a period of not less than one year; thereafter he may

be on such extended probation as the Commissioner or Permanent

Secretary serving in the Ministry responsible for the Police, as the

case may be, may direct.

(2) Where any member of the Force other than a constable is

confirmed in an appointment after having served a period of

extended probation, his appointment shall be deemed to have

commenced twelve months prior to the date of confirmation.

(3) If, during the period of probation or extended probation, the

President of Malta directs that a member of the Force shall revert to

the rank he held immediately before his promotion on probation,

the seniority of such member in the Force shall be the seniority he

would have held had he not been promoted on probation.

(Deleted by Legal Notice 54 of 2015).

(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Police Act,

any member of the Force may make written or oral representations

upon any matter by which he considers himself aggrieved, and such

representations shall, subject to the provisions of sub-regulation

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(2), be made through the ordinary chain of command.

(2) The Commissioner, the Deputy Commissioner, the

Assistant Commissioner or the officer holding the appointment of

Adjutant may grant permission for written or oral representations to

he made direct to them by any member of the Force.

(3) In any representations made under this regulation no

defamatory, insubordinate or undisciplined language shall be used.

A member of the Force shall be guilty of neglect or

violation of duty (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as an

offence against discipline) if he commits one or more of the

offences against discipline set out in the Second Schedule to the

Police Act.

After having inquired into any charge or complaint of an

offence against discipline committed by a member of the Force, the

Commissioner shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of

the Police Act.

(1) The Commissioner may keep at the Police Head

Quarters a mess for members of the Force not below the rank of

Inspector, styled "the Officers’ Mess", and another mess for

members of the Force below the rank of Inspector, styled "the

Other Ranks’ Canteen".

(2) Both the Officers’ Mess and the Other Ranks’ Canteen

shall be managed in accordance with such directives as may be

given by the Commissioner from time to time.

(3) Membership of the Officers’ Mess shall be compulsory and

on subscription, provided, however, that the subscription fee in

respect of officers holding a particular rank shall not be increased

without the consent of the majority of the officers of that rank.

Membership of the Other Ranks’ Canteen shall be voluntary and on

no subscription.

(4) The accounts of the Officers’ Mess and the Other Ranks

Canteen shall be audited annually by officers appointed for that

purpose by the Commissioner.

(1) The Commissioner shall continue to maintain, for the

general benefit of the Force, the fund, commenced in November,

1919, styled "The Malta Police General Fund", to which every

member of the Force makes a contribution of thirteen euros and

ninety-eight cents (13.98) to be paid every three months.

(2) All members of the Force who joined the Force after the

30th November, 1919, shall be deemed to be required to pay these

subscriptions as a condition of their service.

(3) Any other funds of the Force, raised by subscription, shall

be voluntary.

(4) The accounts of the Malta Police General Fund shall be

audited annually by the Auditor General.