Today is International Day of Disabled Persons. Supt Simon Nelson, President of the Disabled Police Association until last week, spoke wit...
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The level of gun crime in the UK is one of the lowest in the world. Nevertheless the potential for harm from urban gangs, organised crime groups and w...
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On Christmas Day 2017, a traffic police officer's life began slowly to unravel after he was injured during a pursuit. Two years later he underw...
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Operation Hampshire currently has a focus on recording more data on officer assaults to better inform prevention and mitigation strategies. The second...
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New IRA connected to earlier attack on officers’ vehicleA vehicle driven to a PSNI police station in Londonderry contained an elaborate hoax de...
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Last month police said they made one of the largest seizures of 3D printed firearm components in the UK. Officers from the Metropolitan Police's Speci...
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Police drivers are being urged to read a frequently asked questions document giving guidance on new regulations which come into force later this month...
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The now-defunct IPCC launched an investigation after Spencer Beynon died following an incident in Llanelli in 2016. An inquest has today returned a co...
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Police officers are suffering 'horrific mental scars' after being assaulted on duty, with thousands forced to take time off due to the stress of the j...
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Armed police have shot a man who was seen with a gun inside a convenience store in Doncaster. South Yorkshire Police said: “An investigation is underw...
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Police officers facing the most demand with not enough time stay on top of workloads are twice as likely to have Complex PTSD (C-PTSD). The University...
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Wiltshire Federation are launching their own food parcel scheme to help officers and their families impacted by the cost of living. Wiltshire P...
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Professor Matthew Feldman said his "genuine concern" is of a period of "protracted crisis" and he feared there did not appear to be a "great deal of j...
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The number of police officers authorised to carry Tasers in Kent has almost trebled in five years. Figures from the force show in 2018 there were 351 ...
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A Bedfordshire officer with an open complaint against him has still not been appointed an IOPC investigator over seven months after the appeal ...
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ASSAULTS on police have soared by a staggering 70 per cent - as record numbers leave the frontline forces. New stats show that in the last 12 m...
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Shocking image shows a police stab vest and bloodied radio and Taser following a brutal stabbing of two Devon and Cornwall Police Officers. ...
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The force has said the specialist device will help with its firearms operations.The dog camera uses technology similar to that within the drone...
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Rates of Complex PTSD have been found to be higher among officers who reported “solving unforeseen problems on their own”.A Cambridge University resea...
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Veterans Aid and London Police Forces working together to identify and support ex-servicemen and women who are at risk of becoming homeless. CEO of Ve...
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I have recently been medically retired from the police with PTSD following a serious injury on duty a few years ago.
I would not be here if it was not for the PFOA - they literally saved my life. In February 2017 I was long-term sick off of work and I was in a very bad place.
Whilst I have been unable to continue as a serving officer, I will forever be indebted to the PFOA. I will never be able to repay them for all that they did. All I can say is thank you so much from me and my family.
PFOA assisted by offering counselling/coaching support to officer’s family. A respite break was granted to allow the officer and his family to get away and spend some valuable time together as a family unit.
The PFOA purchased a new cross trainer and have loaned this to the officer to enable him to remain active and hopefully return to Ops.
PFOA arranges support for the officers involved prior to the Inquest and after by way of a respite breaks and NLP Coaching or Counselling.
I would like to personally thank the PFOA for the gifts we received for our daughter. The timing could not have been better. the week the gifts arrived, she had lost her hair and was due to go back to hospital for her next round of chemotherapy treatment which she was not looking forward to. Opening the parcel put a big smile back on her face for two reasons. firstly, because you had chosen as gifts exactly what she would have chosen for herself. But secondly and more importantly, because she realised other people ere also thinking of her and willing her to get better. People she had never met.
Thank you so much for the shopping vouchers, they will come in very handy. Thank you for helping my daddy to be himself again. Keep helping police officers because some people don’t understand how hard it can be and they are doing a great thing.
This act of kindness was greatly appreciated by us both at what is a very difficult time for our family.
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