The main areas of the work of Police Administration Branch are as follows:
- Consult and liaise with the Northern Ireland Office in respect of police service regulations and their impact on the PSNI.
- Represent the interests of the Policing Board and PSNI in respect of amendments to police officers pay, conditions and pensions negotiated nationally by the Police Negotiating Board.
- Manage and administer the ill-health pension retirements of serving police officers, including injury on duty award applications. This includes retrospective claims submitted by ex-police officers.
- Consideration of dependents pension awards and child allowances.
- Consideration of applications for extension of service by police officers.
- Processing of applications for licences, including occasional licences in respect of PSNI premises.
Police Administration Branch will soon be placing application forms and information packs in respect of police officers ill-health pensions, injury on duty awards, dependents awards and child allowances on this website so that they may be downloaded.
Copies of pensions regulations are available on the Office of Public Sector Information website.
