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Prentis visits Yorkshire to meets branches

Dave Prentis answered the requests of branches and employers to visit Yorkshire for a series of meetings this week

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON condemns plan to slash Essex police service

Essex police force unveils plan to axe PCSOs and close stations in the county

Article on the UNISON National site.

Prentis condemns government hypocrisy on facility time

And he was scathing of health minister Jeremy Hunt's relish for cuts to tax credits on the grounds […]

Article on the UNISON National site.

Further cuts to police forces could jeopardise public safety and lead to more industrial unrest, warns UNISON

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 […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

We’ll support the police staff who keep our homes safe

Experience after experience has shown that privatisation is a false economy

Article, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Police cuts threaten neighbourhood policing at time of heightened terrorist threat, says UNISON

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 […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

UNISON reacts to police budgets announcement in today’s spending review

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 […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

UNISON warns of risk to community policing as cuts bite in Suffolk

Cuts over the last few years mean that community policy in Suffolk is in danger, warns UNISON, launching campaign to defend the service

News on the UNISON National site.

UNISON members are working flat out

As wind and rain batters the north of England I want to pay tribute to our members

General Secretary's blog, News on the UNISON National site.

Welsh probation services threatened

Uncertain future for Wales Community Rehabilitation Centre staff after plans announced to cut finances by 40%

Article, News on the UNISON Cymru/Wales site.

Welsh probation services threatened

Uncertain future for Wales Community Rehabilitation Centre staff after plans announced to cut finances by 40%

Article on the UNISON National site.

Trade Union Bill campaign will be the priority, says executive

‘Our aim is to make sure this legislation is not carried’, NEC meeting hears

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Christmas cheer and charity

UNISON members are helping workplaces, their families and communities to warm up for the festive season

Article, Magazine on the UNISON National site.

UNISON calls for overhaul of the guarding of crime scenes

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 […]

News, Press release on the UNISON National site.

Beat the bullies

As a UNISON survey reveals rampant bullying in the police service, Maureen Le Marinel explains how she got through her own ‘awful’ experience

Magazine on the UNISON National site.