Explore Police Pay
Everything that is not on the homepage: transferring force, pensions, welfare and misconduct, police staff, legal explainers and research on the police workforce.
Serving officers
Thinking of transferring force?
The Transfer Hub helps serving officers compare transferee opportunities against their current force: pay point treatment, allowances, pension continuity, commute, housing and specialist routes, before committing to an application.
- Transferee status board with open campaigns
- Estimate your package at a new force, including local allowances
- Pension, pay point and annual leave continuity explained
By topic
Serving officers
Pay scales, overtime, the CARE pension and what the regulations say.
Pensions
The 1987, 2006 and 2015 schemes, McCloud and your lump sum.
Welfare and health
Sick pay, stress leave, injury awards and medical retirement.
Misconduct and risk
Gross misconduct, Regulation 13 and vetting decisions.
Leaving the police
Resigning, retiring or moving on: what you keep, what to earn and how to write the CV.
Joining the police
Starting pay, vetting, interviews and whether the job suits you.
Police staff
Pay, the LGPS pension, PCSO careers and role guides, for staff rather than officers.
Common police searches
- Police salary calculator 2026
- Police staff pay rise 2026
- PCSO pay and salary
- Police pension calculator
- Police mortgage calculator
- Police overtime calculator
- Police injury award calculator
- Police pay rise 2026/27
- Police commutation calculator
- McCloud remedy explained
- Police stress leave full pay
- Gross misconduct explained
- Police vetting explained
- Police pay scales 2026
- Police promotion pay
- Police ill-health retirement
- Jobs for ex-police officers
- Police pension if I leave
Regulations and legal explainers
Plain-English guides to police powers, public office law and the courts.
Arrest and PACE powers
Stop and search rights
- Can police search your phone? PACE section 19, RIPA and consent rules.
- What is section 60? Suspicionless search powers, authority levels and limits.
- GOWISELY explained What an officer must tell you for a search to be valid.
- Strip search law and rights Legal safeguards, supervision and custody guidelines.
Constitutional law
- Who investigates the Prime Minister? Metropolitan Police jurisdiction and public interest tests.
- Sovereign immunity and the King Crown exemptions from prosecution and the history behind them.
- Parliamentary privilege Freedom of speech in Parliament and police investigation.
- What is judicial review? Challenging police and ministerial decisions in court.
National reform and workforce research
The data and policy changes shaping UK policing, from retention surveys to national reform: workforce culture, representation and career context.
- Policy analysis Police Reform White Paper 2026 What the proposed legislative changes mean for serving officers.
- Workforce statistics Our Black workforce survey Retention data, career progression barriers and demographic findings.
- Representation map Who represents police in the UK Staff networks, federation boards and support associations.