OFFICERS are being urged to share their experiences of how cuts to policing budgets have affected their health, safety and wellbeing in an upcoming online survey. The Police Federation of… read more →
AN ESSEX Police officer and his dog, who saved a man from icy water in a pond on a freezing January night, have both received a commendation. PC Simon Newman… read more →
ESSEX Police officers have raised £11,569 for children’s cancer charity ‘Jack’s Pack’ after officers took part in a series of charity events in New York. In May of last year,… read more →
TWO armed response officers have been praised for saving the life of a woman who was found unconscious in Stansted Airport. PC Matthew Kemp and PC Ryan Mitcham were patrolling… read more →
POLICE officers are facing yet another hit in the relentless attack on their take home pay this April with a 1.4% rise in their National Insurance contributions. Following little or no… read more →
GOVERNMENT proposals to substitute fully trained and warranted police officers with volunteers will put these citizens at risk, Essex Police Federation has warned. Mark Smith, Federation Chairman, said: “I don’t… read more →
THE Chairman of Essex Police Federation will be approaching Chief Constable Steve Kavanagh to request that more officers are trained in using Taser. Mark Smith said that while the force… read more →
CHIEF Constables across England and Wales have announced that they have no plans to issue Taser to all the country’s police officers at this time. However the National Police Chiefs’… read more →
PROPOSALS from Chief Officers and the Home Office to scrap a number of police officer Bank Holidays and the overnight allowance are hugely damaging to police morale. That’s the view… read more →
THE Home Office and the country’s Chief Constables have called for 1% pay rises for police officers in 2016. In their separate submissions to the Police Pay Review Body (PRRB),… read more →