THE establishment of a formal Police Covenant is a vital step that will help better protect police officers from assaults, Zoe Wakefield, Hampshire Federation Chair has said. The Covenant, which will apply to serving and former police personnel, will create a statutory duty for forces to support police officers and places a requirement on the […]
HAMPSHIRE Police Federation has hit out at “inconsistent” sentencing for those who attack police officers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Officers from around the country have been spat at by offenders claiming to have Covid and have seen the weaponisation of the “Coronavirus Cough”, leaving officers exposed to the potentially deadly disease. Assaults on emergency workers […]
DETECTIVES are struggling with stress, large workloads and low morale, Hampshire Police Federation’s Detective Lead has said, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. Det Sgt Nick Milburn has been in the police for 27 years and a detective for eight years. He supports the Police Federation of England and Wales’s focus […]
HAMPSHIRE Police Federation is calling on the Government to add police officers to the priority COVID-19 vaccination list to ensure officers can keep themselves, their families and the public safe. This week the Government failed to announce a decision on whether police officers would be added to the priority list for the vaccine, despite weeks […]
DIFFERENT tiers within Hampshire are “presenting new challenges” and making policing COVID-19 breaches even harder, Hampshire Police Federation has said. From 00.01 on Saturday 19 December, different parts of Hampshire will be in all three COVID tiers. The Isle of Wight remains in Tier 1, but Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant will move into Tier 3. […]
POLICE officers on maternity or adoption leave are to receive full pay for 26 weeks. The changes come into effect from 4 January 2021, increasing the entitlement from the current 18 weeks. The change has been celebrated throughout the service, including by Lucy D’Orsi, currently a Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner and soon to be […]
INVESTIGATIONS into officer conduct are quicker when carried out local level than under IOPC supervision, new figures have shown. Supervised cases took on average around 24 months to be resolved – compared to just five months for unsupervised cases, according to the IOPC’s own figures. Just 13 supervised investigations took place compared to nearly 20,000 […]
OFFICERS should be allowed to use their safety equipment to minimise the risk of injury to themselves and the public, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Chair Zoë Wakefield was responding to a report by Unicef, which called for the use of spit guards and Taser to be banned on under 18s. In a report, Unicef […]
SUPERVISORS must not be shy of seeking help from the Federation if they are struggling with their mental health, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Chair Zoë Wakefield was responding to a blog by Steve Taylor, PFEW Deputy Lead for Roads Policing, who supervisors looking after the welfare of others were “encouraged culturally to put their […]
MORALE at Hampshire Police is higher than in most other forces, the 2020 Pay and Morale Survey has shown. Of the Hampshire officers who responded to the survey, 39% said that their morale was either low or very low: the third lowest figure out of all forces. On average in England and Wales, 48% said […]
