News & Updates

The decisions and choices the Government makes have a huge impact on policing. If you look back at recent years, there’s been the Winsor Review, the reform of police pensions and the introduction of Police and Crime Commissioners. Particularly for our colleagues in...

As many as a third of the senior operational leaders in Police Scotland could choose to dramatically quit their jobs due to the cost of horrific pension changes, it has been warned today. Many Scottish Police Superintendents are already concerned about changes to...

Policing should not be drawn into the current “toxic” public debate around hate crime with officers needing to remain “pacifists in the culture war”, the President of The Association of Scottish Police Superintendents (ASPS) will tell a landmark Conference this week....

Next month we will meet for our annual conference under the title, ‘The Courage to Lead, and the Changing Face of the Scottish Police Superintendents’ and ahead of that, I’d like to look at the diversity of our workforce and the challenges facing the service in the...

The theme of our centenary conference in May is: ‘The Courage to Lead: The Changing Face ofPolice Superintendents’. One of the things I’ve been reflecting on is the sustained level ofcourage you need as a leader within the police service, and the extent to which...

This year it’s the centenary of the Association of Scottish Police Superintendents – that’s 100 years of representing officers with key operational leadership roles within the service. There have been big changes in Scottish policing over that period, so it’s...