Police Pension

Menucha

Ian (hubby) joined as a Police Cadet back in 1961. In 1963 he went into fingerprints and left in 1971 to do a 4 year college course. Back then you could opt to take the Superannuation back as a lump sum if you left the Force.
However - following an illness he has been on medication for the last 32 years which has affected parts of his long term memory.
Consequently he can't remember if he did take his superannuation or not.
Does anyone know how I can find out? As we are now retired, and if there is some money still there (won't be much I shouldn't think) it would be a great help.

Thanks

Philippa

Ian_W

From what I remember [long term memory loss isn't dependant on medication!!] refund of superannuation contributions was pretty much automatic back then and deferred pensions were not that common with Local Government type schemes.
It's a bit late to post more now but are you sure he was a "Police Cadet" rather than a Probationer [trainee] Police Constable?
There are some very big differences regarding pensions for the 2 and he wouldn't normally have been able to go into a specialist dept like fingerprints without being a constable for 2 yrs first - unless he did so as a civilian member of police staff.

Ice_2

I would have thought that it would have kicked in automatically when you retired....don't you know anyone from the force that you are still friends with...if so ask them to steer you in the right direction...or go and see someone at your local nick...maybe the police rep can help you...:)

anguk

I found this on the Home Office website:

"If you are a serving or retired police officer and want more information on your personal pension, please contact the pensions administrators for your force. Your force's human resources department will be able to provide you with the relevant contact details."

So if you contact the Human Resources department of the police force he was in they should be able to put you in contact with the Pensions Administrators.

Menucha

Ian_W wrote: »

From what I remember [long term memory loss isn't dependant on medication!!] refund of superannuation contributions was pretty much automatic back then and deferred pensions were not that common with Local Government type schemes.
It's a bit late to post more now but are you sure he was a "Police Cadet" rather than a Probationer [trainee] Police Constable?
There are some very big differences regarding pensions for the 2 and he wouldn't normally have been able to go into a specialist dept like fingerprints without being a constable for 2 yrs first - unless he did so as a civilian member of police staff.

Yes he was a Cadet but then went on to be a Civilian Fingerprint Technician/Expert. If contributi88on refunds were automatic then that would solve the question, but I need to be sure.
As regards medication - it's actually a a combination of certain treatment he received together with the medication which caused long tyerm memory lapses.

msmicawber

What about using the pension tracing service? Have a look at this site: http://www.thepensionservice.gov.uk/atoz/atozdetailed/pensiontracing.asp

Ian_W

Menucha wrote: »

Yes he was a Cadet but then went on to be a Civilian Fingerprint Technician/Expert. If contributi88on refunds were automatic then that would solve the question, but I need to be sure.
As regards medication - it's actually a a combination of certain treatment he received together with the medication which caused long tyerm memory lapses.

Right, that does clarify things - but in a complicating way!
Cadets [15-19yr olds] weren't police officers and were not members of the Police Pension scheme. Some were members of the Local Govt scheme but it was entirely optional on the employing Authority, eg Manchester City Police were, neighbouring Lancashire Constabulary were not offered any pension scheme.
Civilian FP officers would also have been LGPS members, probably automatically in those days.
In the early 60's there were many more police forces than now with most large towns, cities and counties all having their own. Subsequently there have been a series of both police and local government re-organisations but I think it would be safe to say that the successor police or LG authority would be the place to check.
BoL.

Menucha

Thanks Ian,
As you seem to be so knowledgeable maybe you can help a bit further.

At the time it was Manchester and Salford Police, which I now believe is Greater Manchester Police. I've check the website to see if I could find any reference to the Pensions Administrators but to no avail.

Have you any idea at all who/where I can contact?

We are retired in Cyprus so other than Google we have no way of finding out.

Thanks once again

Philippa

msmicawber

Hi Philippa - the pension tracing service finds the pension administrators for you then gives you the details and you contact them directly.

Menucha

Many thanks everyone.

I have just had an email from the administrator of the Home Office Police Pensions Forum giving me the email of the person I need to contact.

Thanks once again

Philippa