“A RELATIVELY small proportion of police time is spent on crime,” Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary has told MPs. Sir Tom Winsor told a Public Accounts Committee hearing that… read more →
THE number of firearms operations increased by 38% at South Yorkshire Police last year, according to the latest figures. There were 500 operations in which firearms were authorised in the… read more →
A NATIONAL support line for officers who are vulnerable has been set up through a joint partnership between the Police Federation and Police Firearms Officers Association. The Welfare Support Programme will… read more →
OFFICERS and staff have been given new information on keeping themselves and their families safe as the terrorist threat remains at severe – meaning an attack is highly likely. Police… read more →
THE service has recruited less than half the number of direct entry applicants in its target, it was revealed last month. The Home Office had originally planned to draft 20… read more →
Police officers will receive a 1% boost to their pay packets from 1 September, the Home Secretary has announced. Theresa May accepted the main recommendations of both the Police Remunerations… read more →
THE traditional rank structure of the police service could be dismantled to make way for a “flatter” structure, a report out today has recommended. The current hierarchy, which has been… read more →
ALL constables will have the ability to access the top point of their pay scale if they pass the relevant threshold test following representations to the Home Office, the Police… read more →
DELAYS by the Crown Prosecution Service are preventing police officers walking the beat and carrying out other frontline duties, an official report has found. Officials said they had “significant concerns”… read more →
FALLING crime rates do not mean the service is coping with cuts, the Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales has warned. Ministers who point to failing crime… read more →