Pensionable service

Your pension will be based on your service and final pay.

• Service builds up in years and days
• Any part time service is adjusted to reflect the hours you've worked
• For part-timers, some flat-rate overtime is pensionable and will count towards service

What counts as service?

Your pensionable service includes:

• current service as a police officer during which you paid pension contributions
• service where contributions are deemed paid, such as any unpaid leave within the first 26 weeks of maternity leave
• earlier service in the same force
• earlier pensionable service with other forces if you have transferred it to to your current service
• earlier pensionable service from a Scottish force or the Police Service of Northern Ireland, if you transferred with consent
• periods of relevant service, includes appointments to the Inspectorate of Constabulary and some overseas service. Ask about your pension before agreeing to this type of service
• service credited to you because of a transfer from another pension scheme

Your pensionable service does not include:

• any service that you have not paid contributions for or that were not deemed paid
• any service for which you have received a refund of your contributions
• service in respect of any pension that you have transferred out of the NPPS