How do Police Support Volunteers (PSVs) differ from employees?
• PSVs give their time freely to support the Constabulary. However, they are not staff and have no employment status. Therefore, they are not covered under employment law and are not entitled to employee or worker rights. • Remember, volunteering is based on choice, so there is no mutuality of obligation. PSVs are not obliged to perform voluntary duties and as such the Constabulary has no power to order a PSV to carry out such duties or to discipline him/her for refusing to do so.
