Section 16Part 3 — Appointments, Enlistments, Service and Discharge
Discharge
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16. (1) Subject to subsection (3), the Commissioner may, at any time during the probationary period referred to in section 9, discharge from the Service a constable who has not been confirmed in that constable’s appointment pursuant to section 9, if the Commissioner considers that the constable is unlikely to become an efficient police officer.
A police officer may at any time during the currency of that police officer’s term of engagement —
be discharged, when that police officer has —
been pronounced by the C.M.O. to be physically or mentally unfit for further service; or discharge of that police officer’s duties; or
in the opinion of the Commissioner, ceased to be efficient in the
be discharged if, in the opinion of the Commissioner, the retention of that person’s services would be contrary to the public interest.
A police officer shall not be discharged under this section unless the Commissioner has given that police officer one month’s notice of the intention to discharge that police officer or, alternatively, one month’s pay in lieu of such notice.