ACC Andronov officially leaves the force on May 1, after a 30-year policing career which started with West Midlands Police His first posting was at Kings Heath Police Station in Birmingham in 1991 and he has servied in a broad range of local policing, investigative and operation roles mostly in… ACC Andronov leaves the force after four years in the post....
CC Marsh first joined the force as a new recruit in 1987 and went on to take both operational and detective roles up to the role of Chief Superintendent and BCU Commander, first for South Bristol and then Somerset East. He went onto serve as Assistant Chief Constable at Wiltshire… Andy Marsh, chief constable of Avon and Somerset Police, has announced he will leave the job when his contract expires in July this year to “embark on a new challenge”....
Oscar Kilo, the national police wellbeing service, has begun a live instinct trace as part of a project to map reactions of officers while on duty. Officers are being urged to volunteer for the three week trial which begins today in a bid to assess how emotional reactions impact on… A live research study has been launched in a bid to improve officer wellbeing....
In 21/22, the City of London Police have been allocated 41 officers as part of the uplift programme, meaning it needs to aim for around 16 of them to be BAME. City of London, the National Lead force for Fraud, has 872 officers as of the end of February 2021… Police Authority Board (PAB) will challenge the force to recruit at least 40 per cent BAME officers for the remainder of the Home Office uplift programme....
Of the 179 new officers 82 of them were women. On the force’s recruitment page of its website, it states it can offer recruits a “range of family friendly policies including those that promote a work/life balance”. 12 per cent of the new intake are from ethnic minority backgrounds. The… Female officers have accounted for 46 per cent of the latest intake of probationary constables to join Police Scotland....
Chief Constable Simon Bailey announced he will retire in June after completing 35 years’ service – including eight years leading Norfolk. It also means further changes to the National Police Chiefs’ roster of responsibilities as since 2014 he has held the National Police Chief’s Council portfolio for Child Protection and… Another Chief Constable job is about to become vacant as Norfolk’s chief has announced he is retiring....
The preferred candidate for chief of GMP is South Yorkshire’s Steve Watson who heads up the only force in England and Wales assessed as ‘outstanding’ in respect of ethical and lawful leadership. If Mayor Andy Burnham’s choice is ratified by the Police Crime and Fire Panel later this week, CC… National crime prevention lead “has proven record in improving performance” says Mayor...
The College of Policing has been put under review by its new Chair to decide how it will resource itself and support training for officers over the next decade. New chair of the College of Policing board, former policing minister Lord Nick Herbert has launched a “fundamental review” of the… Frontline officers have been offered the chance to have their say on changes at the College of Policing....
Serena Kennedy will be Merseyside Police’s first female Chief Constable after her selection by the Police and Crime Commissioner was confirmed by the region’s Police and Crime Panel. She will take over the £172,000 pa role when the current Chief Constable, Andy Cooke QPM, leaves in April to join HMICFRS.… Police and Crime Panel confirm outgoing PCC’s preferred candidate ...
This week is the first Response Policing Week, a new national initiative to recognise and celebrate the work of response officers across the UK. Sometimes thought of as the 'poor relations' of policing, forces would collapse without them and the vast range of skills they bring to the job. Response… If you call us, we're the ones who come. Meet the Metropolitan Police's response officers who are helping the city's most vulnerable people 24/7...