Officers should be given training that is “engaging and quality” to ensure forces are benefitting from the highest quality policing, South Yorkshire Police Federation says. Federation Chair Steve Kent said… read more →
Every police officer in the UK should be offered an annual well-being check-up if the service is to protect officers from the disturbing increase in suicide. Three colleagues have died… read more →
Police forces are facing a “massive vacuum of skills” due to experienced officers leaving the job, South Yorkshire Police Federation has warned. Federation Chair Steve Kent said forces were “haemorrhaging… read more →
Police officers taking on second jobs in record numbers has laid bare the crisis in pay and wellbeing, South Yorkshire Police Federation has warned. In some forces the number working… read more →
Government investment in neighbourhood policing is a sticking plaster solution to a larger problem, South Yorkshire Police Federation says. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pledged to recruit 3,000 more neighbourhood… read more →
A public sector worker is assaulted every two minutes in the UK, according to an investigation from LBC. Drawing on NHS data, Home Office statistics and freedom of information requests,… read more →
Police officers will continue struggling to make ends meet without a “drastic improvement” in pay, South Yorkshire Police Federation has said. Chair Steve Kent revealed only recently the force’s foodbank… read more →
Police officers have tragically taken their own lives due to the “sheer pressure” of the job, South Yorkshire Police Federation has warned. Federation Chair Steve Kent said the plight in… read more →
South Yorkshire Police remains among the most “under resourced and underfunded” forces in the country, its Federation has said. The bleak picture was revealed after the Government corrected its neighbourhood… read more →
Policing across South Yorkshire is “stretched to the limit” because of chronic underfunding, the county’s police Federation has said. Chair Steve Kent said cops were working on the red line… read more →