Category: Reblog

Are sickness absence policies in policing counterproductive to the welfare agenda? by Gavin Hales Senior Associate Fellow, The Police Foundation Last year, I asked if a mental health dam in policing is starting to crack, highlighting the findings of two pieces of research, respectively by the Police Dependents’ Trust and Police Federation for England and…

Nigel Colston is Chief Inspector for Neighbourhood Policing with Avon & Somerset Constabulary. As an officer on the autistic spectrum, he talks about how he overcame the challenges associated with his condition and how being autistic brings unique strengths to his role By way of introduction, many people know me as an “autistic officer”. That…

by Dee CollinsChief Constable of West Yorkshire PolicePresident of the British Association for Women in PolicingWest Yorkshire Police Disability Association supporter ‘I found the radiotherapy exhausting. I stayed at work though (every morning in the office, every afternoon at hospital, sharing the sisterhood which developed with fellow patients – they were all women in my…