POLICE officers from around the country – including 90 South Yorkshire Police officers – have been thanked for their help keeping the NATO Summit safe. Various policing bodies have paid… read more →

CHANGES are to be made to pay arrangements for officers who are on restricted duties. Restricted duties are to become known as “limited duties” and draft regulations are to be… read more →

SERVING PCs will have a chance to jump to the inspector rank in just two years under a new fast track to inspector programme launching next month. On October 20… read more →

THE reality of cuts to police budgets means forces must ensure officers’ time is put to best use – and this means prioritising calls they attend, the president of ACPO… read more →

SOUTH Yorkshire Police has been told it must do more to allow officers to report concerns about crime-recording. The force has a confidential reporting line by which officers can raise… read more →

COMMUNITY support officers are being used “inappropriately” in forces across England and Wales and are being “drawn into a response style of policing”, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary has warned. The watchdog’s… read more →

THE last few officers remaining at Hammerton Road police station are to be moved out this autumn after the building was deemed to be “unfit for purpose”. The current station… read more →

ALL South Yorkshire Police officers have been offered a free fatigue assessment in a bid to help them deal with the effects of tiredness. South Yorkshire Police Federation has offered… read more →

THE under fire Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire has resigned from the post. Shaun Wright has stepped down today (16 September) “for the sake of victims” and “for… read more →

A JAIL sentence of less than three years for a plasterer who deliberately drove a van at a police officer has been described as “very lenient” by South Yorkshire Police Federation.… read more →