OFFICERS who serve for 30 or 40 years are to be given extra recognition for their long service. Currently, police officers in England and Wales are given a Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct at 20 years’ service. And now an amendment to the Royal Warrant means that officers will receive an additional ‘bar’ […]
IT is absolutely right that officers who have been killed on duty should be posthumously honoured with a medal of honour, according to Hampshire Police Federation. A campaign for a new medal for fallen officers, called the Elizabeth Medal, has been launched by Bryn Hughes and Paul Bone – fathers of GMP officers PC Nicola […]
HAMPSHIRE’S Police and Crime Commissioner has proposed raising the police precept on council tax to pay for an extra 50 officers. PCC Donna Jones wants to charge an extra £15 on the price of a Band D property in Hampshire to increase the amount of money going to the force. The extra cash could fund […]
A SHOCKING 84% of Hampshire Police officers feel worse off financially than they were five years ago, new research has found. 18% of officers never or almost never have enough money to cover all their essentials, and 78% are dissatisfied with their overall remuneration, according to the latest Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) […]
THE number of officers who say they are planning to resign is the next crisis in policing, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Figures from the PFEW Pay and Morale survey showed that 12% of respondents from Hampshire intend to resign either within the next two years or as soon as they can. Hampshire Police Federation […]
POLICE officers feel ‘helpless and powerless’ to do anything to improve their financial situation, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Public sector workers from a wide range of areas have launched a series of strikes in protest about their pay – including emergency workers from the NHS. However, although police officers’ pay has reduced in percentage […]
A LACK of resources could be a huge factor in the increase in the number of police officers being assaulted, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Government statistics show that in the past financial year, there were 425,721 incidents when police officers needed to use force to protect themselves on duty. This is up from 391,202 […]
OFFICERS would be happy to be vetted annually, but there are not enough people to actually carry out the process. Hampshire Police Federation has said the Government would need to invest heavily in paying for more staff to carry out vetting checks. Chair Zoe Wakefield was responding to reports that annual integrity checks are to […]
THE Police Service needs to make “big changes” to deal with the issues that are leading to PTSD in officers, Hampshire Police Federation has said, as a new survey links high demand to poor mental health. The University of Cambridge found that high levels of PTSD across UK police forces were partly the result of bad […]
“MY main point is to emphasise how much officers are struggling at the moment.” That will be the Chair of Hampshire Police Federation’s first discussion point with the force’s new Chief Constable. Scott Chilton has been selected as the new Chief Constable of Hampshire Constabulary and will take up his post in February 2023. He […]
