Assistant Chief Constable Lauren Poultney has been appointed Deputy Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police. Chief Constable Stephen Watson announced the appointment yesterday (15 April). CC Watson will be moving on to head up Greater Manchester Police in May. ACC Poultney will take up the post at the end of… South Yorkshire Police is set for a reshuffle of its leadership team....
A student officer has received the same 83 collar number as his great-great-great grandfather who became one of Leicestershire’s best known officers and was featured on postcards after he joined in 1908. PC Dan Challis joined the force in November 2020. His great-great-great grandfather, PC John William Stephens was… Leicestershire PC’s famous forbearer weighed 25 stone and served in Anglo-Zulu war ...
Assistant Commissioner Angela McLaren of the City of London Police has joined the Board of Directors for Police Crime Prevention Initiatives (Police CPI), the police owned organisation that works to deliver crime prevention and demand reduction to support the wider UK police service, Earlier this year the City of London… Angela McLaren will use her NPCC cyber crime portfolio to help work of police owned organisation ...
ACC Andronov officially leaves the force on May 1, after a 30-year policing career which started with West Midlands Police His first posting was at Kings Heath Police Station in Birmingham in 1991 and he has servied in a broad range of local policing, investigative and operation roles mostly in… ACC Andronov leaves the force after four years in the post....
CC Marsh first joined the force as a new recruit in 1987 and went on to take both operational and detective roles up to the role of Chief Superintendent and BCU Commander, first for South Bristol and then Somerset East. He went onto serve as Assistant Chief Constable at Wiltshire… Andy Marsh, chief constable of Avon and Somerset Police, has announced he will leave the job when his contract expires in July this year to “embark on a new challenge”....
Oscar Kilo, the national police wellbeing service, has begun a live instinct trace as part of a project to map reactions of officers while on duty. Officers are being urged to volunteer for the three week trial which begins today in a bid to assess how emotional reactions impact on… A live research study has been launched in a bid to improve officer wellbeing....
In 21/22, the City of London Police have been allocated 41 officers as part of the uplift programme, meaning it needs to aim for around 16 of them to be BAME. City of London, the National Lead force for Fraud, has 872 officers as of the end of February 2021… Police Authority Board (PAB) will challenge the force to recruit at least 40 per cent BAME officers for the remainder of the Home Office uplift programme....
Of the 179 new officers 82 of them were women. On the force’s recruitment page of its website, it states it can offer recruits a “range of family friendly policies including those that promote a work/life balance”. 12 per cent of the new intake are from ethnic minority backgrounds. The… Female officers have accounted for 46 per cent of the latest intake of probationary constables to join Police Scotland....
Chief Constable Simon Bailey announced he will retire in June after completing 35 years’ service – including eight years leading Norfolk. It also means further changes to the National Police Chiefs’ roster of responsibilities as since 2014 he has held the National Police Chief’s Council portfolio for Child Protection and… Another Chief Constable job is about to become vacant as Norfolk’s chief has announced he is retiring....
The preferred candidate for chief of GMP is South Yorkshire’s Steve Watson who heads up the only force in England and Wales assessed as ‘outstanding’ in respect of ethical and lawful leadership. If Mayor Andy Burnham’s choice is ratified by the Police Crime and Fire Panel later this week, CC… National crime prevention lead “has proven record in improving performance” says Mayor...