THE chairman of South Yorkshire Police says policing’s founder Sir Robert Peel would be “turning in his grave” if he knew the drastic changes the Government are making to the… read more →
TWO South Yorkshire Police constables who contained and calmed a murder scene – and arrested suspects – were honoured at the National Police Bravery Awards in London. PC Laura Davis… read more →
AN ESSEX Police officer shot dead when he tackled a gunman in the street near his home has posthumously been given a national bravery award. PC Ian Dibell, 41, was… read more →
POLICE officers need “operational experience to make operational decisions”, the chairman of South Yorkshire Police Federation has said. Neil Bowles (pictured) was reacting to the news that the Government plans… read more →
POLICE chiefs have defended a bonus system for officers performing “particularly unpleasant tasks” – including dealing with dead bodies and attending difficult fatal road accidents. ACPO said the payments recognise… read more →
POLICE reform will make the service “a more attractive profession” and “more representative of the people it serves” the police minister has said. In a speech around modernisation and the… read more →
THE newly introduced police officer annual fitness test is “wrong and irrelevant”, police officers heard at an open meeting. John Blanchard, chairman of Humberside Police Federation, (pictured) told the Fed’s… read more →
TRAINING has been given to all South Yorkshire Police front line officers on how to identify the warning signs of Child Sexual Exploitation – and what safeguarding action they can… read more →
HM CHIEF Inspector of Constabulary Tom Winsor risked the wrath of police officers by wearing a uniform at National Police Memorial Day. Mr Winsor wore an HMIC “ceremonial uniform” to… read more →
THE end of the UK wide Police Negotiating Board is “abhorrent” and its demise “does a fundamental disservice to the fine men and women of the police service in England… read more →