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PFOA NEWS
What Have We

Been Up To?

O n a recent visit to Glasgow I met with and Cheryl in the office (they were allowed out

Brian Docherty, the Chairman of the
for half a day!) and the wine choices made. If you
are attending please ring the office to pay for your
Scottish Police Federation. Brian,
an ex-professional footballer for St
Mirren, was interested to know where we can assist tickets as soon as you can.
the SPF and where we fit in with regards to the Steve Howson (Mr PIM), our treasurer, is leaving
support process. Jim Roger the PFOA Trustee for Kent Police to take up his post as the lead trainer
Scotland was also present. It was a pleasure to meet for PFOA Training Ltd. Steve will be running the
up with Brian and to offer any advice or support the Federation PIPs Courses as well as PIM exercises
PFOA can give to assist him and his colleagues. and seminars.

Karl Smith and myself attended the Armed Policing We are looking at a possible uplift in our PFOA
Conference organized by the College of Policing. Coaches. If you are interested in becoming a NLP
The COP invited us a guests and allowed us to Coach can you email me mark@pfoa.co.uk We are
have a prime place for stand. During the evening keen to get an even geographical spread!
function on day two there was a raffle and auction
which raised £1300 for the PFOA. It was agreed to We are assisting Haix with a boot trial. 20 pairs will
split this money and give it to two special families, be going out to various officers around the country
both of which have lost their wives and mums in for appraisal.
the past year. A massive thanks to Andy Latto, Kev
Nicholson and all at the College for their support.

PFOA Training is taking off! We now have 5 Post
Incident Procedure Courses booked for the Police
Federation of England and Wales. We have just
completed a course for Unison in Bournemouth. All
students were successful after a hard weeks graft.

We have recently had a meeting with the Defence
Medical Welfare Service (DMWS). They are a military
charity that supports families of service men and
women. They have a well-established support
network that we are keen to learn more about so
that we can improve what we do to support our
members and their families. Their website is www.
dmws.org.uk

With the PFOA Summer Ball fast approaching we
are already making final arrangements for the MARK WILLIAMS
venue. The meal has been sampled by Debbie mark@pfoa.co.uk