PUBLIC sector pay rises will be frozen at 1% for the next four years, Chancellor George Osborne announced in his emergency summer budget. While police officer pay is now agreed… read more →
“A RELATIVELY small proportion of police time is spent on crime,” Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary has told MPs. Sir Tom Winsor (pictured) told a Public Accounts Committee hearing… read more →
OFFICERS and staff have been given new information on keeping themselves and their families safe as the terrorist threat remains at severe – meaning an attack is highly likely. Police… read more →
NEW figures show there are now 126,818 police officers in England/Wales – 1,091 fewer than the previous year. In 2010, there were 143,734 police officers in England and Wales. There… read more →
THE number of firearms operations at Essex Police fell by 27% last year, according to the latest figures. There were 426 operations in which firearms were authorised in the policing… read more →
THREE out of four serving police officers would not recommend policing as a career to others, a survey of British Bobbies has found. A poll of more than 32,500 police… read more →
NICK Alston, the police and crime commissioner (PCC) for Essex, has revealed that he will not stand for re-election in May next year because he wants to spend more time… read more →
POLICE officers will receive a 1% boost to their pay packets from 1 September, the Home Secretary has announced. Theresa May accepted the main recommendations of both the Police Remunerations… read more →
THE traditional rank structure of the police service could be dismantled to make way for a “flatter” structure, a report out today has recommended. The current hierarchy, which has been… read more →