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in hosting regular one day seminars site to view when the courses are set. the issues were mainly about the lack of
around Post Incident Management to Courses can be booked via Sue Clay separation of officers / staff before they
educate and inform its membership on at the College of Policing: Sue.Clay@ provided their initial accounts about
the need for PIPs outside the police use of collegeofpolicing.pnn.police.uk phone conferring, therefore challenging the
firearms. Another seminar is set for March 01480 334567. lawfulness of guidance relating to the
2015 following on from the success of one One final thought to make clear Post Incident Management.
held in 2014. PFOA Training Limited is is that PFOA Training Limited is a Due to the common sense of a
always happy and willing to support and company ‘limited by guarantee’, which number of judges the applications
provide speakers for such events. means that any profit above and beyond were refused. A failure to keep officers
Taking everything into consideration, the day to day running costs can go into separate would not necessarily render
the message from PFOA Training the PFOA Charity for the benefit of an investigation inadequate. The ACPO
Limited is a good one. We are working its members. guidance did not breach Article 2 as the
hard with the College of Policing, Police procedure could not realistically be said
Forces and collaborations, the Police POST INCIDENT PROCEDURE to prejudice the independence of
Federation of England and Wales, UPDATES an investigation.
Unison and other Staff Associations In all the time I have been involved in We are very quick on occasions to
to deliver quality PIP training for the the practice and training of Post Incident condemn and criticise ACPO and the
benefit of the Police Service, Officers Management I have never known so College of Policing but on this occasion
and Staff. I ask that as PFOA members much external scrutiny on the process we should praise their efforts. Mr.
you are not reticent in promoting the as I have during 2014. I can only best Chesterman needs special mention for
need for training within your own Forces describe it as if the PIP process was his genuine efforts to ensure that officers
and organisations. The training does one big punch bag permitting the legal and staff are treated appropriately post
what it says on the package: ‘supports profession and human rights lawyers to incident and for his faith in the PIM
both the independent investigation have free continuous blows on it from all process. What I think helped during
and the welfare of officers and staff’. imaginable angles. All of this culminated this Judicial Review was the pre-emptive
If you need support or advice on any in Judicial Reviews being heard in the actions in reviewing and slightly
type of PIM training (initial or refresher latter part of last year (DUGGAN and amending the PIM guidance to possibly
/ re-accreditation) contact us at the DELEZUCH) which dissected and counteract any likely criticisms. This was
PFOA HQ Office (01354 697890) or probed a shooting and Death or Serious also supported by a number of ACPO
go onto the College of Policing POLKA Injury incident respectively. In short circulars reinforcing this. Let us look at