A MOVE towards a learning culture, and away from punishment, ahead of changes to the way misconduct is resolved is positive for police officers, South Yorkshire Police Federation has said.… read more →

South Yorkshire Police Federation Chair, Steve Kent, has admitted that the latest figures taken from the forces Demand, Capacity and Welfare Survey “makes for grim reading”, after it was revealed… read more →

A 15 per cent pay increase has been requested for police officers over the next three years to help rescue them from a “financial cliff edge”. A 5 per cent… read more →

THE training police response and pursuit drivers receive must be recognised in Government legislation, the PFEW has demanded. And unless that changes, the advice given to police drivers by the… read more →

SOUTH Yorkshire Police is yet to issue any advice about leave or mutual aid operations over Brexit, and officers are getting anxious as the 29 March date grows near. North… read more →

THE misconduct procedure for police officers needs to undergo reform, the Police Federation has said, after it emerged that officers can be under investigation for up to ten years.

OFFICERS are being traumatised and their lives are being ‘put in limbo’ because misconduct cases are taking too long to be resolved by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC),… read more →

POLICE officers in South Yorkshire are “struggling to make ends meet” – with new starters taking home the same amount in their pay packet as Bobbies 15 years ago. Steve… read more →

SOUTH Yorkshire Police Federation has hit out at the Government after it published an “insulting” and “pitiful” review of police firearms operations. Officers have been waiting for the review’s outcome… read more →

INDEPENDENT Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigators and prosecutors must now take into account the ‘dynamic and fast-evolving’ situations firearms officers find themselves in when considering prosecutions, revised CPS guidance… read more →