Police officers should be entitled to take their breaks to rest and recover from their highly stressful work, the Chairman of Gloucestershire Police Federation has said. Steve James said he was concerned by a new survey that revealed high levels of fatigue among officers, and he encouraged senior police leaders to “look carefully at the […]
Gloucestershire Police Federation has spoken out about the “disappointing” increase in attacks on officers after it emerged that assaults on emergency service workers have risen by almost a quarter. Provisional data from police forces in England and Wales showed that assaults saw a 24 per cent rise in the four weeks to 7 June. The […]
Gloucestershire Police Officers are continuing to protect their communities despite many of them being subjected to ‘reprehensible’ COVID-19 related assaults. Since the crisis began a number of officers have been spat at or coughed on by people claiming to have the killer disease. With families and loved ones at home it’s an extra worry for […]
The Police Federation of England and Wales is launching a compensation claim against the Government on behalf of members who were “victims of discrimination and suffered any ‘injury to feeling’ as a result of the changes to pensions introduced by the 2015 scheme.” The Government has stated it will put right the pension losses […]
Freezing the pay of police officers and other essential public sector workers at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic to help the country’s financial recovery would be “morally bankrupt and a deep and damaging betrayal”. Police Federation of England and Wales Chairman John Apter has spoken out after a report in the Daily Telegraph suggested […]
I feel very honoured and proud to be representing you as Chairman of Gloucestershire Police Federation. The first thing I want to do is to pay tribute to outgoing Chair Mike Harrison. I’ve known Mike and have had the pleasure of working with him, operationally and through the Federation for a number of years. In […]
To help support the mental health of officers doing an extraordinary job during this unprecedented time, the Police Federation has sought expert advice on how they can manage the difficult situations and feelings they face. Today (April 16) the Federation has released a video featuring Dr Jess Miller, Director of Research at Police Care UK, […]
Gloucestershire Police has been praised for looking after the health and safety of front-line cops policing the coronavirus crisis after it told officers travelling together to jobs to carry on wearing protective gloves and masks. In a move that flies in the face of Social Distancing, The National Police Chiefs Council have said that officers […]
Ian White, Secretary of Gloucestershire Police Federation, has praised colleagues foir their fantastic response to the coronavirus crisis. “These are unprecedented times for policing as we know it, both locally and nationally,” said Ian. “From a policing perspective in Gloucestershire, officers and staff have responded magnificently in adapting to the Covid-19 threat. The Federation are […]
Curfews and fixed penalty notices could be used to crack down on police officer assaults while the courts are closed due to the coronavirus, the Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales has said. John Apter took to BBC News to condemn the “vile creatures” who spit at and deliberately cough on the […]
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