A NEW \u00a37.5m scheme aimed at helping police officers and staff who are suffering from mental and physical health issues has been launched by the College of Policing and National Policing Wellbeing Lead CC Andy Rhodes.<\/p>\n
The National Police Wellbeing Service or \u2018Oscar Kilo\u2019 will provide outreach services, training and a toolkit which forces can use to support their officers and staff.<\/p>\n
The scheme has been funded by The Home Office Transformation fund in bid to turn around recent College of Policing research suggesting frontline officers don\u2019t have time or \u2018consistent access\u2019 to mental health and physical wellbeing advice and support.<\/p>\n
CC Andy Rhodes said Oscar Kilo was \u2018essential\u2019 and that there was a huge amount to do ensure frontline officers feel supported.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmergency services staff work in an extremely challenging environment and are frequently exposed to traumatic events,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeadership at every level of each service must acknowledge this and ensure that our staff are recognised and valued for the work they do.<\/p>\n
There is undoubtedly a great deal of pride in public service which motivates our staff to put themselves in harm\u2019s way on a daily basis, and we must match this with support from leadership.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an essential undertaking, not only in order to be a responsible and caring employer, but also because we as a society have an obligation to look after the welfare of the men and women whose job it is to keep our communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police and mental health charities and Public Health England have all contributed to the scheme and HMICFRS now inspect forces on how they deliver on mental health provision.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are at the early stages of what needs to be a massive culture shift,\u201d CC Rhodes added.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot only for leadership and management to get better at addressing the issues affecting their workforce, but in seeing a change in the way that staff perceive and consider their own physical, mental and social wellbeing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a huge amount to do if we are to reassure our frontline that the service is committed to picking them up when they struggle with their mental and physical health, but we have huge support from across the emergency services family.\u201d<\/p>\n
For more information on Oscar Kilo, visit\u00a0https:\/\/oscarkilo.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A NEW \u00a37.5m scheme aimed at helping police officers and staff who are suffering from mental and physical health issues has been launched by the College of Policing and National\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47877,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47726\/revisions\/47877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}