Police Magazine - March 2009

Editorial

News: 25 years after the miners’ strike - did the police do the right thing?

News: Battle for on-call allowance 

Federation Focus: Mick Pearson, secretary of the Federation's equality subcommittee

View from the chair: Paul McKeever, chairman of the Police Federation questions why ACPO are turning policing into profit

Local focus: A look at the local federations and the issues facing officers in their area

Policing by consent?: In the month that marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the miners’ strike, Tony Judge looks at the events that led to police clashing with pickets and the legacy this has left on communities

What’s in a face?: Can police officers work out how someone will react just by reading their face traits? Personologist Richard M Phelan reads facial features and believes they can help to predict a person’s behaviour

Paper weight: How former Police Federation chair, Jan Berry, hopes to cut bureaucracy in the service as her first report as independent reducing bureaucracy advocate at the Home Office is published

Judgement Opinion: Modernisation means officer cuts

Mother’s Day Weekend at Federation House

Occupational hazards: Can being a police officer make you physically ill? Peter Riley looks at research from the US that reveals officers are much more likely to suffer from a whole host of illnesses due to the stresses of the job