Lancashire Constabulary will start the process of looking for a new Chief Constable in September this year as the current incumbent Andy Rhodes has announced his intention to retire next year. Mr Rhodes, who has spent his entire policing career with Lancashire Constabulary and has been in his current post… Andy Rhodes who headed up the establishment of the national police wellbeing service will retire next year ...
Ms Davison is the MP for Bishop Auckland and a member of the Home Affairs Select Committee. She says she is committed to support the mental health of retired officers and met with NARPO to hear about their work and what support is currently available. She raised how retired officers… Conservative MP Dehenna Davison has asked the Home Office what steps they’re taking to support the mental health and wellbeing of retired officers after meeting with the National Association of Retired Police Officers (NARPO)....
Caz first joined Leicestershire Police as a 17-year-old cadet in 1972. Within a year, she had joined the Policewomen’s Department and became WPC Steptoe. At this time she was mainly working with children. After the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act came in and all aspects of policing opened to women, she… This week, after 48 years’ service, Leicestershire Police is saying goodbye to Carolyn ‘Caz’ Steptoe as she leaves for her “very well earned retirement”....
The national policing lead for criminal justice Nick Ephgrave has been appointed as the policing board member for the Sentencing Council. The Council which issues guidelines on sentencing which the courts must follow, says Assistant Commissioner Ephgrave would provide a police perspective on public concerns about particular types of offending.… AC Nick Ephgrave to provide police perspective on particular types of offending ...
Mr Cunningham said he intends to retire from policing at the end of the year after leading the College since 2018. He has had a pivotal role in working with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs’ Council, Police Federation and Police and Crime Commissioners to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.… The College of Policing has begun its search for a new chief executive after Mike Cunningham announced he is standing down....
Chief Constable Bill Skelly has announced he will step down from his role on December 18 after four years leading the force. CC Skelly has been a champion of better officer wellbeing being embedded into policing and more recently has staged a legal fight with the College of Policing on… Officer wellbeing champion and fierce opponent of police degree system to leave service after 31 years. ...
The Police Federation will increase its subscription rate for rank and file members for the first time since 2011 by £2 a month because it says it can no longer absorb costs by dipping into financial reserves. Real-terms inflation has gone up by 28%, according to the Federation, and the… The first rise in Federation subs for nearly a decade will start from the autumn.A virtual meeting of delegates backed the £2 a month increase from September....
West Midlands Specials are to be paid £150 for every 16 hours of duty they have put in over their usual monthly commitment during the pandemic. According to PCC David Jamieson this will be the first time Special Constables have received such a payment anywhere in the country. The scheme… PCC David Jamieson pledges ‘extraordinary payment’ for extra hours worked during lockdown ...
In 2018, the College committed to producing a ‘rear-view mirror’ report on the new PEQF initial entry routes, following at least one year of force delivery. The result of that commitment is Learning to date: development and implementation, 2016 to 2019, looking at data and participant feedback from the forces who… The College of Policing has produced a report on the early implementation of the Police Education Qualification Framework (PEQF) which indicates officer abstraction rates are as predicted by critics....
Specials will now undergo more of the same training given to first-year PC recruits. This means they will not have to repeat the training again, making it more easy, the college says, for them to join as a PC if they wish to do so. The college said: “It follows… The College of Policing has announced new training for Special Constables which will now be more closely aligned to Police Constable training to "support the recruitment drive". ...