I propose to take Questions Nos. 45 and 191 together.
While not all officers may receive a rating on an annual basis under the formal appraisal system all officers are subject to some form of annual appraisal under the annual confidential reporting system. For example, where an officer has served under a number of different commanding officers for periods of less than four months in each period or where an officer changes appointment the officer would be appraised under the annual confidential reporting system but would not be given an overall rating. Likewise where an officer has served overseas during the year there would not be a formal appraisal rating but instead an overseas report would be completed. Where an officer is being considered for promotion by an interview board and where the candidate has been under the command of a number of different commanding officers in a given year and has, therefore, not been given a rating, the interview board has available to it the reports of the various commanding officers to whom the candidate reported in the reporting year. Such officers would not, therefore, be disadvantaged by the absence of an overall rating.
