The Scottish Government must ensure prisoners convicted of violence against police officers and staff are not eligible for early release from prison. This is the message of a new campaign – Assault The Police? No Early Release – from the Association of...
Today’s article by Calum Steele (The Herald, 28/10/25), former General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), makes for compelling reading. The SPF has been much maligned in commentary surrounding the resignation of Lord Bracadale as Chair of the Sheku...
A major topic at the Police Superintendents’ Association (PSA) Annual Conference was the proposed wide-reaching police reforms in England and Wales, linked to the 2025 Crime and Policing Bill. Reform is something that we’ve got a huge amount of experience of in...
Welfare and wellbeing was an overarching theme at last week’s Police Superintendents’ Association (PSA) Annual Conference. In Police Scotland, we have seen a massive acceleration in the prevalence of psychological illness – often stress – and that is echoed in what we...
Thousands of police officers who have died on duty were honoured at the 22nd annual National Police Memorial Day. Members of the police family gathered in Coventry on Sunday 28 September, to honour around 5,000 officers who have lost their lives on duty. The names of...
