THE Chair of Hampshire Police Federation has said she’s “really pleased” that the Home Secretary is introducing a new, non-degree route into policing. In her speech at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners and National Police Chiefs’ Council Partnership Summit, Home Secretary Suella Braverman called on the College of Policing to develop options for […]
HAMPSHIRE Police drivers are being urged to keep their training up to date after new driving regulations came into force. Trained police drivers now have better protection in law under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act. Their driving will now be judged against the standards of careful and competent trained police drivers rather than […]
IT’S important that the issue of police pay is kept on the Government’s radar, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Chair Zoë Wakefield said she had written to her local MPs to ask them to endorse an Early Day Motion (EDM 547) tabled by the MP for South Shields. The EDM calls on the Government to urgently explain […]
THIS Christmas will be particularly difficult financially for many officers and their families but there is help out there, Hampshire Police Federation has said. The cost of living crisis, rising food prices and energy bills, along with poor police pay will make this Christmas a challenging time, said Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield. Zoë said: […]
THE Chancellor’s Autumn Statement was “disappointing and depressing” in failing to address the significant investment needed in policing, Hampshire Police Federation has said. The Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt presented the Autumn Statement on 17 November. He admitted that living standards had fallen by 7%, wiping out eight years of growth, but did not […]
POLICE officers shouldn’t be using their rest days to study; they need protected time during their working day for professional learning, Hampshire Police Federation has said. The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is campaigning for forces to undergo an “organisational culture change” to allow officers to take Protected Learning Time (PLT), which it […]
POLICE officers who are struggling with their mental health should be encouraged to seek help, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield was speaking as a new nationwide study of more than 12,000 police officers was published, suggesting rates of trauma-related mental disorders are “exacerbated by poor working conditions”, such as too little […]
POLICE forces can’t keep doing more and more if funding is slashed, Hampshire Police Federation has said ahead of this month’s budget. It has been reported that the autumn budget on 17 November is likely to include public spending cuts, but Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield said it would be “perverse” to return to […]
“YOU don’t need a degree to be a really good police officer,” the Chair of Hampshire Police Federation has said. Zoë Wakefield was speaking as 16 Police and Crime Commissioners – including Hampshire PCC Donna Jones – asked the Home Secretary to drop the blanket requirement for all officers to have a degree. They said […]
COURTS need to hand down harsher sentences to those who assault police officers, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield was responding to new figures showing that 37,000 physical assaults on police officers took place across England and Wales in the year ending March 2022, with figures expected to increase even further for […]
