Represent and Support

Influencing

Negotiation

Objective:

To represent and promote the interests and welfare of our members, and to support colleagues to achieve the required professional standards.

Objective:

To influence internal and external decision makers at local and national levels on matters affecting our members and the police service.

Objective:

To maintain and improve the conditions of service and pay of our members.

We do this by:

• Meeting our statutory responsibilities.
• Representing our member’s interests in matters of discipline, diversity, health and safety, welfare, pensions, claims and members services.
• Ensuring that Representatives have the required skills and abilities to fulfil their role and meet their statutory responsibilities.
• Providing national and local representation to ensure that our members receive appropriate training to deliver a professional police service.

We do this by:

• Providing clear leadership locally and nationally on issues affecting the membership.
• Listening to and reflecting issues concerning our members.
• Maintaining an effective communication strategy.
• Engaging with all internal and external stakeholders and decision makers.
• Putting evidentially based information in the hands of decision makers.

We do this by:

• Actively participating in national, force and local negotiations.
• Negotiating collectively and on behalf of individual members.
• Using evidentially based information in our business practices.