Police Magazine - June 2006

Editorial
 
Conference Coverage: Officer numbers could be slashed / Appeal for Stephen Oake to be awarded the George Cross for bravery

Conference coverage: Vote against opening doors to police ‘family’ / Federation warns that police pay should not be used to fund mergers

Conference coverage: Conference outcomes

Conference coverage: Police officers reject routine arming / Summary of figures from Police Federation survey

Conference coverage: Pregnancy stress turns children to crime / Firearms support should be in every car, say colleagues of Beshenivsky

Conference coverage: Constables accuse IPCC of bias in investigations / Constable role should be enhanced but not at cost of sergeant rank

Conference coverage: Chief officer threat to sergeants’ pivotal role / Sergeants’ call for ‘protection’ of pay as super bobbies could be set to earn more

Conference coverage: Inspectors’ scandalous lack of training / Summary of results from Inspectors’ Central Committee: Membership Training and Development Survey 2006

Conference coverage: Officers vote for ‘immunity’ from prosecution in firearms incidents

Conference coverage: Neighbourhood policing threatens 24/7 response / Professor brands police reform blueprint as ‘gibberish

News in focus: HMI could look at sergeant role / Numbers of inspectors dropped to finance staff

Conference coverage: Roads policing officers being ‘set up to fail’ / Officers’ pay could be lined to performance within next few years

Conference coverage: Community custody does not cut crime / Detective numbers reduced drastically dropping as CID face recruitment and
retention issues

Conference coverage: Met constables query confidence in commissioner / Officers vote to withdraw from organisation representing police in Europe

Judgement: Opinion: Tony Judge, former editor of Police magazine gives his personal views on policing issues

On the edge: As nearly half of officers in a Police Federation survey say they have felt in serious danger over the last two years, Syreeta Lund speaks to one officer who was subject to a terrifying knife attack

Bravery: The second in a series on the Police Federation’s Bravery Awards highlighting a few of the stories behind the nominees