Dave Prentis answered the requests of branches and employers to visit Yorkshire for a series of meetings this week
Dave Prentis answered the requests of branches and employers to visit Yorkshire for a series of meetings this week
On Monday, the force announced that it wanted to cut the numbers of PCSOs from 251 to just 60 across Essex. There […]
General secretary pledges resources to police and justice staff as he addresses conference
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis has today (Thursday) warned that more cuts to police jobs and budgets could jeopardise public safety, and lead to industrial unrest. In his speech to the union’s annual police and justice conference in Brighton, Dave Prentis said: “Despite promises not to cut frontline policing, all we have seen from this […]
Experience after experience has shown that privatisation is a false economy
Nearly a third (30 per cent) of police community support officers (PCSOs) in England have been cut since 2010, says UNISON today (Monday). UNISON warns that the government’s determination to rid the country of local police patrols is placing the public at risk in the light of recent events in France. The report – Neighbourhood […]
UNISON General Secretary Dave Prentis said: “It would have been unthinkable to cut police budgets in light of the dreadful events in Paris. “The 25 per cent cuts that have been imposed since 2010 have decimated neighbourhood policing in many parts of the country. One in three Police Community Support Officers have already gone in […]
Cuts over the last few years mean that community policy in Suffolk is in danger, warns UNISON, launching campaign to defend the service
As wind and rain batters the north of England I want to pay tribute to our members
Probation staff perform a vital role in our communities, supervising people who have received non custodial sentences […]
Probation staff perform a vital role in our communities, supervising people who have received non custodial sentences […]
That saw "very large numbers of UNISON members, many of whom queued for two to three hours to see their MP," recalled Mr Prentis. But now the focus is on the next stage […]
But now it’s Christmas – and time for some Yo-Ho-Ho. Members all over the country have been bringing festive cheer to their […]
Vital evidence risks being destroyed because police forces are failing to properly train and protect the support staff who regularly guard crime scenes, says a UNISON report today (Saturday). The report – Out of Sight and Out of Mind – contains the findings of a new survey that says that nearly two thirds (66 per […]
After being discharged from the army for being gay in 1983, Maureen got a job with Lancashire Police, in the control rooms. Then, having […]