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News and updates from the PFOA
A man with a knife has been shot dead by armed officers after being spotted in the car park of a police station in Derby. Police have said the identit...
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The latest cohort of recruits to Merseyside Police will be wearing wrist bands that monitor their stress and strain levels as well as sleep patterns, ...
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More than 13,000 police officers were signed off work last year due to stress, depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Martis Me...
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Horrific figures revealed have shown that once a fortnight a police officer across the country takes his own life. Reasons for this are long-ma...
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Police shooting of Chris Kaba The PFOA have been approached by various media outlets to provide an interview around the suspension of the Metropolitan...
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A FORMER Bradforc police officer who has spoken frankly about his mental health struggles is determined to make sure emergency service...
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A "suspect" vehicle was stopped following "tactical contact" at 9.51pm on Monday in Kirkstall Gardens, Streatham Hill, police said in a stateme...
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Police have taken a record 500,000 days off due to mental health issues, new data has revealed, as a former watchdog blames trauma for caring for the ...
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An armed response officer scooped Olivia into their arms after finding her with a gunshot wound, a coroner's court heard Armed police officers scooped...
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A NEW firearms training centre for police officers in Worcestershire could be built under new plans. West Mercia Police intends to build the new centr...
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A police officer who was left with a bleed to the brain after being attacked on duty has spoken of the trauma inflicted on him and his family PC Leo C...
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Armed police are reportedly having to attend to people having cardiac arrests due to a national shortage of paramedics. With the NHS facing its...
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A PFOA member has delivered humanitarian aid to Kyiv. Vlad who is a Metropolitan Police firearms officer and a member of the Met Police Slavic P...
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Chief Constables from all 43 Home Office forces in England and Wales have today (14th July) pledged their support for the Police Covenant which was re...
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The Home Office has reached out to less -lethal weapons manufacturers as part of plans to reduce the number of guns. The Home Office has reached out t...
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The Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is set to welcome special constables to its 139,000-strong membership from 1 July following a succes...
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From Rwanda to Bosnia, the damage to mental health can be compared to combat operations and even friendly fire, research shows. The psychological cost...
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Frontline police officers in Merseyside Police deal with some of the most frightening or traumatic incidents imaginable on a daily basis....
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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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