MORE than 200 Hampshire Police officers had to take time off due to stress, depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the past financial year. This is slightly up on last year’s figure of 225, a Police Oracle Freedom of Information request revealed. Nationwide, nearly 10,000 officers were signed off for mental health reasons. […]
“I DON’T think we can underestimate the impact that COVID has had on our frontline officers.” Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield has expressed her concern about officers becoming fatigued due to the pressures of policing COVID-19. She was speaking after it emerged that almost half of police officers are getting less than six hours’ […]
THE longer an investigation into a police officer continues, the greater the impact it has on their mental health. That is the view of Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield, who is backing calls for IOPC investigations to be time limited. She was speaking as the Home Affairs Select Committee begins a Parliamentary investigation into […]
THERE are no extra officers to police the Government’s new COVID-19 regulations as the majority are already working to capacity, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Hampshire Police Federation Chair of Zoë Wakefield said officers simply do not have time to respond to every call from the public reporting a breach of the so-called ‘rule of […]
“PEOPLE shouldn’t be able to post an edited version of the facts on social media.” That is the view of Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoë Wakefield, who was responding to calls for police body-worn video footage to be released to fight back against ‘trial by social media’. Zoë supports the principle of releasing footage to […]
HAMPSHIRE Police Federation’s new Equality Lead, Chrissie Wall, says she will continue to help people and fight discrimination, building on her experience of being Deputy Equality Lead for the past five years. Chrissie has been a Federation Rep for eight years and in the police for 22, working in a variety of areas from response […]
A NEW offence for those deliberately using, threatening or attempting to use a vehicle to target a police employee and the potential to increase the availability of Tasers and Spit Guards for use by officers are just two of the recommendations in a new Safety Review. In total 28 recommendations have been made by the […]
HELPING officers deal with the menopause and encouraging more women to become Reps are at the top of the to-do list for the new chair of the PFEW’s Women’s Group – Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoe Wakefield. “We had a really good network of women’s Reps, not just across the region but across the whole […]
THE Independent Office for Police Conduct has more to do to improve despite ‘positive’ meetings aimed at thrashing out how they can get better according to Hampshire Police Federation. PFEW leaders and IOPC representatives got around the table in July. The PFEW argued that IOPC investigators need better knowledge about post-incident procedures, that there was a […]
‘EXHAUSTED’ officers are quitting policing because they feel ‘let down’ by the Government and have had enough of the stresses and strains of the job, Hampshire Police Federation has said. Nearly 2,400 officers voluntarily left policing in England and Wales last year, the highest number since 2015. Hampshire Police Federation Chair Zoe Wakefield said a […]
