THE number of police incidents related to mental health rose by a third over just three years, new research has found. There was a 33% rise in cases recorded in… read more →

HAVE you gone to work feeling you should have taken sick leave? How often are your rest days cancelled? How many paid and unpaid hours of overtime do you do?… read more →

THE National Police Air Service (NPAS) has officially shut its South Yorkshire base as a result of cutbacks. The area has been served by NPAS since April 2013, with a… read more →

THE staff associations representing police officers up to and including the rank of chief superintendent have asked for the country’s cops to receive a 2.8% pay rise in 2016. In… read more →

THE Home Office and the country’s Chief Constables have called for 1% pay rises for police officers in 2016. In their separate submissions to the Police Pay Review Body (PRRB),… read more →

THE Chairman of South Yorkshire Police Federation has hit out at requests from Chief Officers to scrap a number of police officer Bank Holidays and the overnight allowance. Neil Bowles… read more →

POLICE officers are facing yet another hit in the relentless attack on their take home pay this April with a 1.4% rise in their National Insurance contributions. Following little or no… read more →

TWO South Yorkshire Police officers have been honoured by the Queen. PC Zuleika Payne (right) has received with the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM) in the New Year honours for her… read more →

OFFICERS are being urged to share their experiences of how cuts to policing budgets have affected their health, safety and wellbeing in an upcoming online survey. The Police Federation of… read more →