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Police Scotland launch airguns amnesty campaign

From BBC Website 20/05/2016 Police are launching an airgun amnesty ahead of new laws which make it illegal to possess one without a licence. [...]

Licence to practice proposal for public protection officers in England & Wales

From the Met Police Federation website: A “licence to practice” is to be introduced for public protection roles to bring them into line with the [...]

Police officers with body worn cameras are more likely to be assaulted

By Martin Evans on 17/05/2016 in The Telegraph Wearing body mounted cameras can place police officers at more risk of being assaulted, a study has [...]

SNP drops 1,000 extra police officers target as party promises to give Police Scotland ‘flexibility’

By Alan Robertson. Published in Holyrood on 20/04/2016 The SNP has dropped its nine-year manifesto commitment to have 1,000 extra police officers [...]

Aberdeen council u-turn on legal action against Police Scotland merger

Written by Jon Hebditch and published in Press and Journal on 12/04/2016 Aberdeen council chiefs have performed a U-turn and dropped their threat of [...]

Police Scotland to ‘pull plug’ on problem-hit £60m IT system

From ‘The Scotsman’ 24/02/2016 Police Scotland is said to be preparing to tear up a contract for the delivery of a multi-million-pound IT [...]

Refer every complaint to watchdog, say Scottish Labour

Article in ‘Police Oracle’ regarding complaints about Police and the role of the PIRC: Public and officers’ lack of faith in the [...]

Working Time Regulations – Update from ASPS’ President

In furtherance to last week’s update from DCC Neil Richardson on Working Time Regulations, ASPS’ President Niven Rennie has written a [...]

Travelling time is working time!

The European Court of Justice ruled that workers without a static place of work should have the travel time from their home address to the location [...]

Developing the Best Leadership for Policing

The College of Police Leadership Review looked at leadership across ranks, grades and roles in policing and is applicable to both officers and staff [...]