Exemplary Character

For the purposes of these Regulations service shall be reckoned as qualifying service only if it is certified that the character and conduct of the person recommended for the grant 52 of the Medal or Clasp has been exemplary. Exemplary character shall be deemed to be borne by any member of the Police Department who has not yet been convicted during the last ten years of his service of a grave offence. A grave offence is any Offence under the Police Act or Regulations made thereunder for which the punishment awarded is a fine, or is a reduction in rank or grade, or is any criminal offence which upon conviction is punished by a fine and which shall be deemed to have brought the Department into disrepute.