Delegates ‘can’t comprehend’ public order policing without guns

TEACHING international delegates how British officers police without firearms will be a focus of the International Association of Women Police in Cardiff in August.

One of the conference co-ordinators, Sgt Donna Clutterbuck of South Wales Police, said other countries “can’t comprehend” how British public order policing is possible without using firearms.

She said: “We’ve got the ‘Best of British Policing’, because no one polices like the British police do in relation to public order.

“We do everything without firearms on a daily basis and when we go to the other countries they still can’t believe we police without firearms. They can’t even comprehend it.”

Around 1,000 delegates from across the globe with attend the event from 23-27 August, which is also mark 100 years of women in policing in the United Kingdom.

Sgt Clutterbuck said the “big selling point of the conference is the structure of our training programme”.

She added: “We’ve also got the softer skills, things like coaching and mentoring, leadership skills, Neuro-Linguistic Programming [NLP]. They’re the norm in our force, we hold NLP sessions within our force area because a lot of us are trained.

“We’ve got some NLP Masters at the conference who will be doing one-on-one sessions with people if they need them, or group sessions. It’s great for confidence building, whether people have got issues at work, or issues with weight or with dedication to exercise.

“It can be really small things which can be really big things for people, to some big issues. NLP is a brilliant way of helping you to deal with things like this.”

There will also be expert sessions across the conference. Sgt Clutterbuck added: “We’ve got [sessions on] money laundering, sex trafficking is a massive issue at the moment, and child sexual exploitation.

“We’ve got a lot of speakers who have had personal experience of things, we’ve got groups coming in that work with victims of domestic violence and domestic violence victims giving their side of the story.”