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1 YOUR VOICE Ffederasiwn Heddu Gogedd Cymru / North Waes Poice Federation DECEMBER 2016 Tim s our Community Service Award winner See Pages 3-5 Representing Negotiating Infuencing

2 Chairman s comments You can t get a degree in common sense By Simon Newport, Chairman of North Waes Poice Federation Is it essentia to be educated to degree eve in order to join the poice? This is a question that has been raised on many occasions over the past 12 months and wi, no doubt, continue to be asked as the Coege of Poicing pushes forward pans to see a future recruits educated to degree eve to make them eigibe to join the service. Many have spoken for and against the idea and many of those making such comments do so on the back of an academic background. So what of the uneducated view from a serving officer? We, it is my opinion that degree eve education is not necessary to ensure that today s modern poice service copes with future demands. Given such a bod unscientific statement, et me be aowed to quaify why I say this. Modern poicing, as we woud generay recognise it today, commenced in 1829 and back then its founding fathers came from a waks of ife and backgrounds; that has pretty much remained unchanged through to the modern day. We are a aware that Sir Robert Pee, the founding father of the poice service, famousy said: The poice are the pubic and the pubic are the poice. No mention of the poice being better educated than the pubic? In the United Kingdom, we have a proud and envied poice service that is made up of a cross-section of the country s communities and it works. Not everyone in the communities we work in has a degree, not everyone is educated, not everyone has common sense and not everyone wants to be educated to a higher eve and this woud bar a vast number of exempary candidates to the poice service. It is reported that today 43 per cent of poice recruits have degrees presumaby with the debts that are reportedy associated with a degree course on average 44,000. Is this a possibe corruption risk even before you start your career? Critics and academics woud say that we need to improve. I accept this. We must be seen to adapt and improve on a reguar basis but woud having an educated degree eve workforce hep us achieve that improvement? Whie you can teach subject matter and reward peope for passing examinations, you can t teach common sense and you can t teach ife experience. No amount of certification or dipomas wi hep you out on a rowdy high street in any town on a weekend night if you have no common sense or cannot speak to peope on the correct eve. As yet, I am unaware of any degree course that rewards such attributes. I aso see an a degree eve educated workforce becoming frustrated at promotion and career deveopment opportunities as most pass the promotion examinations and are unabe to progress due to the ack of vacancies. I woud ca it the inverted funne effect. The cynic in me woud say that this is the aim in order to make the future poice service ess attractive to career ifers whereby the frustration in not being abe to progress and achieve promotion woud see many eaving the service before triggering pension benefits. But I coud be wrong. On a sighty different subject, but one that coud aso affect the recruitment of potentiay outstanding recruits, is tattoos. Like many forces, North Waes Poice has recenty reviewed its Tattoo Poicy. The Poice Federation of Engand of Waes has aso recenty concuded its own survey due to the inconsistent way that current nationa guidance was being interpreted across the 43 poice forces of Engand and Waes with regards to tattoos. An overwheming 80 per cent of those surveyed said their confidence in a poice officer woud not be affected if they had visibe tattoos and further to that 60 per cent of those surveyed by Ipsos Mori said they beieve peope with visibe tattoos shoud be aowed to join the poice service. With statistics ike these, and the fact that forces across the country constanty te us that they are modernising and keeping up with modern trends, think of this. One in three young peope now have tattoos, it is amost a modern day rite of passage and many of those wi presumaby have degree eve education. Uness a common sense approach is adopted nationay in the near future, the service, as a whoe, wi no doubt miss out on a huge amount of potentia taented recruits. Finay, as this is the Winter and Christmas edition of Your Voice, it ony remains for me to wish you, your partners and famiies a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and to hope that you a remain safe if you are working over the Christmas festive period. Cover photo: DC Tim Bird (eft) receives his Community Service Award from Chief Constabe Mark Poin. 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3 Difficut task for community award judges North Waes PCC Arfon Jones congratuates nominee PC Gemma Pouton. Fu story on Pages 4 and 5 s Representing Negotiating Infuencing 3

4 Difficut task for community award judges PC Sue Carrington receives her certificate from PCC Arfon Jones. By Richard Ecces, Secretary of North Waes Poice Federation This year s North Waes Poice Federation Community Service Awards drew a strong fied of nominations from across the Force area making judging a difficut process. The awards ceremony was attended by the PCC Arfon Jones, Deputy PCC Ann Griffith together with our Chief Officer Team and oca Assemby Members Ann Jones and Mark Isherwood. Among the nominations was PC Gemma Pouton who was Beat Manager for Caia Park in Wrexham which has a popuation of more than 14,000 residents and creates some of the highest demand in the county. Gemma was highighted as she was the soe Caia Park Community Beat Manager for a considerabe time prior to a restructured team being impemented. During that period Gemma was instrumenta in tacking significant issues on Caia Park in terms of anti-socia behaviour and crime. Gemma needed to address a cuture within the community whereby those who were suffering were often too scared to report matters to poice. Working cosey with the oca authority, Gemma evidenced great probem-soving skis and progressed a argey untested piece of egisation and appied for cosure orders on two private premises. Gemma was abe to work with the private andords in order to ensure those who were causing the probems in that area did not return. Since the evictions, Caia Park has seen increased pubic confidence and aso a reduction in the ASB and crime to such an extent that oca counciors were soon remarking that they had never seen the area as quiet. The oca communities were aso fu of praise and some went on to describe how their quaity of ife had been improved. Gemma s nomination incuded the foowing tribute: PC Pouton was the soe CBM for a considerabe ength of time and has aways remained professiona, enthusiastic and dedicated to her roe of poicing such a chaenging area. The way in which she has tireessy dedicated hersef to the area and successfuy managed the 4

5 team of PCSOs is commendabe and has had a huge impact on the oca community. Aso nominated was PC Sue Carrington who had an extensive record of serving the Fintshire communities as a CBM from the inception of Community Beat Managers in North Waes. Sue was very much regarded as the font of a knowedge for a things reated to community poicing and was the first point of reference for coeagues ooking for soutions to their probems. Sue opted for a change of roe and moved to the Safer Communities Unit in Wrexham aiming to reduce demand within Wrexham. Sue is absoutey instrumenta in this roe, using her vast experience to bring together key partners when various issues are identified ensuring that a partners rise to address their responsibiities. Sue is aways ooking at ways to deveop skis and processes, both for her own benefit and that of coeagues, to make day to day tasks ess onerous and the organisation more efficient. Sue is engaging, enthusiastic, popuar, friendy, approachabe and just very, very nice! Recent evidence of Sue s invovement in projects are: 1. Wrexham Town Pubic Space Protection Order (PSPO) recenty introduced egisation, aimed at addressing ASB within Wrexham town. 2. Wrexham Town Action Pan inked to the PSPO, assisting with quaity of ife issues within Wrexham. 3. New Psychoactive Substances Pathway Group addressing the recent surge in the use of NPS, engaging with service providers to offer a recovery pathway. A are significant pieces of work in their own right and a contribute to the NWP vision of a Safer North Waes and a of which have drawn positive comment from oca counciors. This year s overa Community Service Award winner was DC 139 Tim Bird from Crime Services. Tim was recognised for his vountary work as a member of Ogwen Vaey Mountain Rescue Organisation (OVMRO). A former professiona mountaineering and water sports instructor, Tim has been a vounteer member of the Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) for 15 years. The mountains and rivers of Snowdonia form a unique andscape and attractions for tourists and outdoor pursuits enthusiasts. The outdoor community is an important economic part of the North Waes region bringing much vaued tourist income and jobs to the area. Over a period on 15 years, Tim has contributed during both his North Waes Poice roes and as a vounteer Mountain Rescue Team member: Mountain fataities: Snowdonia has between 10 and 15 mountain-reated deaths per year. Tim has used a combination of his poicing skis as an Investigator and professiona mountaineering skis and Nationa Governing Body quaifications to take a ead roe in investigating and training of both MRT and Poice in the Investigation and Reporting of Mountain Fataities. The Fata Incident Protoco course run by Tim has trained more than 120 staff and has been recognised as best practice by the nationa Coege of Poicing. In addition, Tim has attended and investigated as a community vounteer numerous mountain fataities and then produced expert opinion reports and given evidence to the coroner. The combination of Tim s wok with in the Mountain Rescue community inked with his poicing skis has heped many bereaved famiies come to terms with the oss of a oved one in the PC Pouton was the soe CBM for a considerabe ength of time and has aways remained professiona, enthusiastic and dedicated to her roe of poicing such a chaenging area. DC Tim Bird (eft) receives his Community Service Award from Chief Constabe Mark Poin. mountains of Snowdonia. Mountain safety: Tim has payed a key roe in setting up Mountain Safe, a muti-agency community project which has provided community outreach to a mountain users via awareness campaigns and training courses to reduce the impact of mountain incidents in North Waes. Mountain Rescue ca-outs: Tim has been a vounteer member of OVMRO for 15 years and has attended more than 500 Mountain Rescue incidents. Many incidents occur during extreme weather and at night and require a high eve of team working with MRT and NWP coeagues from a parts of the North Waes community. In recent years Tim has become a Team Leader with OVMRO and now co-ordinates rescue caouts on the mountain and at the MRT base in the Ogwen Vaey. Swiftwater and Fooding incidents: In addition to traditiona Mountain Rescue incidents, Mountain Rescue Teams in North Waes aso provide a Swiftwater Rescue and Fooding response. Tim is a quaified Swiftwater and Food Rescue instructor and has recenty attended as a community vounteer at a number of oca, regiona and nationa fooding events. In addition to winning the award, Tim was abe to donate the 1,500 bursary to OVMRO to assist them in buiding upon their successes in keeping the mountains of Snowdonia a safer pace. Foowing the awards, Ann Jones AM commented: I thoroughy enjoyed the evening as I aways do and I aways find the awards a true inspiration and a credit to both the Force and your organisation. Facebook: 5

6 Constabes concerns A probem shared is a probem haved By Jonathan Ashton We, I ve finay been coared to do an artice, I ve kept my head down for the ast three years but Richie (Ecces, Federation Secretary) has finay caught up with me! I am the Constabes representative for Fintshire and have been in post for neary three years now, jugging the roe with being a response officer in South Fintshire. During my tenure, I have advised many officers on a variety of issues incuding heath and safety, performance, misconduct, UPP and the od favourite, over-time enquiries; Bobbies are sti inextricaby inked to the that we-known poicing phrase: What can I caim for? I have represented officers in discipine and UPP cases and take a keen interest in officers webeing and any associated subsequent wefare issues. There is nothing worse than worrying about work-reated matters as it impacts ife at home and I wi activey encourage officers to seek advice at the eariest opportunity. You wi be surprised as to how much support the Federation can provide. Life on response can be tough and equay rewarding. There are constant issues with staffing and maintaining DSL - that didn t exist some 25 years ago when I was parading on at Wrexham with 12 officers on a rota, two dog handers and two traffic cars on for the area. How times have changed. There were no computers to speak of apart from the one Bob the coator woud use, many of you wi sti remember him. I sti have my woo trousers and unti recenty I coud sti fit into my origina tunic, unfortunatey, kebabs on ates and the trusty Big tasty have put paid to that aong with the common notion of eating on the hoof. I am a firm beiever that, wherever possibe, you shoud aways try to take your fu refreshment break, you re entited to it and that 45-minute window gives time for your batteries to recharge. Poicing has changed immeasuraby in the ast 25 years and we are now faced with the massive chaenge of constanty deaing with a mutitude of menta heath issues, concerns for safety, missing persons, sexting, CSE, the ist goes on. The modern day officer has become a unique breed deaing with the woes and troubes of modern day society but aso, cruciay, we can be the beacon that shines out and reaches out to victims. It is vita that this continues and it never ceases to amaze me how the poice service meet and dea with new chaenges. Over the past three years I have kept officers up to date with the atest news and wi continue to do so. I have an open door poicy and aways beieve in the adage, a probem shared is a probem haved. If there are any issues that you are concerned with then don t hesitate to contact me. There is nothing worse than worrying about workreated matters as it impacts ife at home and I wi activey encourage officers to seek advice at the eariest opportunity. You wi be surprised as to how much support the Federation can provide. Pubic confidence unaffected by officers having tattoos The vast majority of peope are not bothered if poice officers have tattoos, according to the resuts of a Poice Federation of Engand and Waes (PFEW) survey carried out earier this year. And 81 per cent of respondents said a visibe tattoo woud make no difference to their confidence in the officer. The survey, conducted by Ipsos Mori, aso reveaed: Neary 60 per cent of the pubic who responded said they woud fee comfortabe in deaing with an officer who has a visibe tattoo sighty higher than they woud with doctors or teachers (both 56 per cent) 60 per cent of those surveyed beieve peope with visibe tattoos shoud be aowed to join the poice service More than haf of the officers who took part said they fet comfortabe or very comfortabe working with coeagues with visibe tattoos 48 per cent of officers surveyed said they had a tattoo, with 17 per cent having a visibe tattoo Many officers said their tattoos heped them to reate to the pubic, diffusing situations and that officers shoud be judged on their work, rather than tattoos. Vicki Martin, who has been eading on the work on behaf of the PFEW, wecomed the resuts: What we need to see now is a sensibe approach to officers in the service and to potentia candidates who want to join the service, otherwise we are missing out on a huge taent poo. Poicies need to be modern and fexibe to ensure the pubic get the best peope deivering their poicing, being representative of the communities we serve. The research which was two-fod and asked views of officers as we as the pubic - was undertaken because of the inconsistent way nationa guidance was being interpreted among forces across the country. The Federation wi now work with Leicestershire Chief Constabe Simon Coe who is eading a sma group ooking at appearance standards and specificay tattoos. PFEW is seeking a nationa standard so that there is an up to date professiona poicy fit for the modern day poice service. 6

7 Sergeants say... Do attitudes need to change with the times? By Kim Owen, Chair, Sergeants Branch Board One subject that has seen a ot of pubicity in recent months and a ot of debate within Force has been the issue of poice officers with tattoos. Here in North Waes we have reviewed our own Force poicy on the matter during the year. It is a subject in which I have a persona interest. I have two tattoos and I am considering a third which I woud ike to be visibe on the back of my neck. Foowing a the debate, I have found mysef asking, as a poice officer with neary 19 years service and a mother of two, if having tattoos makes me any different to anyone ese. Do they make me ess capabe of doing my roe as an officer? Do they make me ess of a roe mode to my chidren? Do they change how I dea with peope? The answer to a the above for me was no. I am sti the same person, sti that same officer and sti capabe of carrying out my duties professionay. So why do peope sti have issues with tattoos and fee peope shoud be discriminated against, treated differenty or, at the worst, refused a job just because they have a visibe tattoo? As ong as they are not offensive or racist, then tattoos shoud not be the barrier to excude potentiay the most abe job candidates. My own view is that attitudes need to change with the times as more and more peope, young and od, are hitting the tattoo shops and getting persona body art. But the poice service is not aone in having concerns around tattoos. ACAS recenty raised concerns that empoyers are missing taented workers because of negative attitudes towards peope who have tattoos. It pointed out that dress codes in the workpace must not be discriminatory, suggesting empoyees ought to be consuted on changes in working practices. It aso highighted that empoyers with a diverse workforce can reap many business benefits as they can tap into the knowedge and skis of staff from a wide range of backgrounds. As was reported by one newspaper, Margaret Mountford, Lord Sugar s former right-hand woman, spoke out saying that she thought tattoos are unhygienic and a rea probem for British youngsters. She caimed having a tattoo decreased their chances of obtaining and hoding down a job and that she had even refused to have her hair washed by a styist with tattoos! I question if it is right to treat peope this way just because they have a tattoo. This is an archaic attitude. I reguary say to my chidren: Don t ever judge peope on their ooks and aways treat others with dignity and respect. Studies sti revea some type of stigma surrounding tattoos, athough they are now gaining a wider socia acceptance. One in five aduts now has tattoos and research shows they are most popuar among 30 to 39-yearods. Figures aso show a third of young peope now have tattoos. I found it interesting whie researching this artice that David Dimbeby had a scorpion tattoo on his shouder when he was 75; Feicity Kenda got her first tattoo at 63 and Dame Judi Dench had one on her right wrist for her 81st birthday. Chery Fernandez- Versini (formery Tweedy and Coe) has a tattoo on her ower back whie Samantha Cameron (wife of the former PM) has one on her anke. Finay, how can we forget David Beckham who sports tattoos? The UK aw on equaity in the workpace does not cover empoyees with tattoos as a protected characteristic; the ony exception woud be on reigious or beief-reated markings under the Equaity Act. Yet forces taking a tough ine on recruiting staff with tattoos risk osing a group of exceptiona future officers. We hear more and more that the poice service shoud recruit to refect the communities we serve, yet we sti have od-fashioned attitudes on tattoos in some forces. The Poice Federation of Engand and Waes (PFEW) is seeking a more consistent approach with its nationa ead in this area, Inspector Vicki Martin, now part of a working group, ed by Chief Constabe Simon Coe from Leicestershire, to ook at standards of appearance incuding tattoos. The group aso incudes UNISON and the Superintendents Association and is reporting to the Coege of Poicing. It aims to come up with guidance, fit for modern day poicing, to be used by a forces to encourage consistency. Home Office guidance states that tattoos shoud not cause offence and are acceptabe so ong as they are not particuary prominent garish or undermine the dignity and authority of the poice officer roe. It aso states that candidates for the poice force with visibe tattoos or facia piercings may be eigibe for appointment and that each case shoud be considered on its merits. But Vicki is concerned this vague wording has ed to some forces rejecting appications from very taented candidates, as the rues are being interpreted differenty by a 43 forces. Research has started with PFEW seeking the views of the pubic and commissioning two surveys in reation to tattoos and attitudes towards them. The resuts wi be reported to the new group to infuence the fina guideines. I wi await the outcome and ook forward to seeing a change in the poicy and the views nationay, which wi enabe me to ook at my new tattoo sooner rather than ater! Finay, as I sit thinking about where this past year has gone, I cannot beieve this artice is for the December edition of Your Voice. I woud ike to wish you a a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. For a those working over the Christmas period, stay safe and ook out for each other. I wish you a the best for 2017 and, in concusion, never judge a book by its cover! My own view is that attitudes need to change with the times as more and more peope, young and od, are hitting the tattoo shops and getting persona body art. 7

8 nspectors insight Inspectors insight Poice bai: Government is making a mistake By Pau McKeown Chair of the North Waes Inspectors Branch Board I can t beieve its December aready. Another year amost gone. I think I m sti in a state of shock over the Brexit vote and David Cameron resigning. Our new Prime Minister has a heck of a job on her hands. What has happened to austerity? The poiticians seem to have gone very quiet about it. You wi a remember that ast year North Waes Poice introduced a new Bai Management Poicy where set pre-charge bai time imits had to be authorised by specific ranks. This came about as we were aware that the Government was ooking at poice bai apparenty as a resut of some high profie cases. Despite our tightening up on how we do it, we are now facing a potentia administrative nightmare when the actua new bai provisions are introduced in the Poicing and Crime Bi The Bi contains the foowing: There wi be a presumption that persons in custody wi be reeased without bai uness certain pre-reease conditions are fufied. Inspectors wi now be required to authorise a pre-charge bai for up to 28 days after arrest. Superintendents wi be required to authorise pre-charge bai from 28 days unti three months. Magistrates wi have to authorise pre-charge bai beyond three months and wi require a written submission or in some cases an ora hearing. In SFO cases a senior civi servant wi be abe to extend pre-charge bai beyond three months, up to a maximum of six months, before the courts become invoved. Extensions up to six months can aso be obtained from an Assistant Chief Constabe (in consutation with a senior prosecutor) in compex cases invoving the CPS. The Bi is currenty going through the House of Lords. From reading the debate, it is cear that the Government is not going to back down. Amendments have been tabed requesting that the initia decisions are made by sergeants and not inspectors and aso that initia bai date is moved from 28 days up to 56 days. But, from what I can see, these wi be ignored. Apparenty the Government s view is that it does not ook at the extra work required as an administrative burden; it sees it as requiring an appropriate eve of intrusive supervision to ensure that pre-charge bai is used appropriatey and that investigations are progressed diigenty and swifty. Franky, it is obvious they have no idea what is going on in the rea word of poicing. The Government is apparenty reying on an Impact Assessment report pubished aongside the Bi. I ve read it. This outines how the new process wi have amost no impact on inspectors and a itte on superintendents. I was eft sputtering... The word assume is used repeatedy throughout the report. Those who have written this impact report think it wi take a superintendent ony 20 minutes to extend pre-charge bai. But this doesn t appear to have taken into account that the superintendent wi have to take representations from the suspect and their soicitor. How ong wi that take? They aso think that a bai hearing in Magistrates Court wi ony take 15 minutes. When was the ast time the authors were in a court? They aso don t think there wi be any impact on an inspector s time as they are aready in custody 24/7? We wi have to be if this goes through; no more going on the streets. They acknowedge that there may be a potentia time burden on those invoved. They point out that, in a worst case scenario by assuming no reduction in the need for bai in spite of the other reforms in the Bi, those officers woud need to make 404,000 initia bai decisions and 118,000 bai extensions, or 86 per inspector and 161 per superintendent over the course of a year. Apparenty, the Government does not consider that these numbers are unmanageabe for these ranks of poice officer to carry out. Franky, it is obvious they have no idea what is going on in the rea word of poicing. When this comes in inspectors and superintendents are going to be snowed under just deaing with Bai issues. We won t have time for much ese. But what gets me is what wi a this reay change? Those detainees reeased without bai (which wi ikey be the majority of cases going forward given the presumption for reease without bai) wi continue to operate outside of any statutory imits, meaning that suspects can sti remain under investigation for inordinate amounts of time. OK, they won t be on bai, but they wi sti be under investigation. Wi that make them fee any better? What about the pre-charge conditions we currenty put on baied suspects to protect witnesses and victims? I suspect that we wi do this ess and ess as we find the issue of bai simpy a nightmare administrativey. The Government is ignoring the poice service s warning that the Bi wi hamper our other work. It appears to have forgotten that it has reduced our numbers drasticay in recent years. My own view is that the Government doesn t care, and wants to pease its ceebrity friends. I think it is making a mistake and wi eventuay have to either give us more resources or amend the egisation in the coming years as it won t be working. May I just take this opportunity to wish you a a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 8

9 Protect the Protectors The Poice Federation of Engand and Waes is aunching a new campaign in eary 2017 to highight that assauts on poice officers are an assaut on society and that such assauts are unacceptabe. The campaign is caed Protect the Protectors and wi focus on: Ensuring officers record the detais if they are assauted Pushing for better consistency of recording of poice assauts across a 43 forces on crime systems Generating pubic, poitica and media support that an assaut on a poice officer is an assaut on society; that it is unacceptabe Highighting the rea number of assauts on poice officers in Engand and Waes and the dangers officers face Through obbying, to see the Sentencing Counci review the minimum sentences for those convicted of assauting an officer and increase the tariff Ensuring the judiciary recognises the seriousness of an assaut on a poice officer and uses the guideines to deiver maximum sentences Promoting and ensuring the sevenpoint pan is activey adopted by a poice forces assauts on officers shoud not be treated as secondary to any other assaut; officers are victims too if assauted Ensuring that chief officers give proper consideration to doube-crewing where appropriate and do not et officers fee vunerabe as a resut of the reduction in poice officer numbers. The Federation s Pariamentary Working and Campaign groups have been working for some time on devising campaigns that wi achieve a rea difference for our members. Officer assauts is an area the Poice Federation fees needs addressing through Pariament and the Sentencing Counci to ensure that an assaut on a poice officer is treated as an assaut on society. It shoud never be seen as an expected part of the roe of a poice officer by either the officer themseves or the pubic. There has been considerabe support for this topic with MPs and discussions have started over asting soutions. Federation officias hed meetings with MPs at both the Labour and Conservative Party conferences and this was foowed up by an event in Westminster on poice officer safety. This was arranged and supported by Hoy Lynch, the Labour MP for Haifax, who raised the issue of officer safety in the House of Commons during an evening debate at the start of October. A further debate was hed by the opposition (Labour) on 2 November and again focussed on the issue of poice officer safety. The campaign wi be pubicised in the media next year, so keep your eyes peeed! It shoud never be seen as an expected part of the roe of a poice officer by either the officer themseves or the pubic. Facebook: 9

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11 The many hats of poicing By Mark Jones, Centra Sergeants Representative Back in 2006 North Waes Poice hit the headines ocay, nationay and gobay when the decision was made, controversiay, for poice officers to ditch the traditiona custodian hemets, fat caps and bowers and don the baseba cap. There were strong opinions from both sides of the camp; some promoted the practica benefits of baseba caps whie others were outraged about the apparent termination of the much-oved hemet and bower, romanticay associated with the bobby on the beat. Thankfuy, in 2010 common sense prevaied with the re-introduction of the fat cap, hemet and bower with the baseba cap being used for specific duties ony. It seems 10 years on the debate over hats is back but this time it is not iteray but more figurativey. Poice officers are not just expected to have a choice of a fat cap, bower, and hemet but aso carry with them a hat-stand brimmed with a variety of other hats. For exampe, poice officers are now expected to wear the hat of a socia worker, a paramedic, a chid psychoogist, a marriage counseor, a drug and acoho support worker, an environmenta heath officer, a fire safety officer I coud go on and on. We know that poicing by virtue is varied and officers have to dea with a wideranging spectrum of incidents. But the vast majority of poice work contrasts with what the then Home Secretary, Theresa May, ceary stated in her speech to the ACPO and poice authorities nationa conference in June 2010 when she said: Your job is nothing more, and nothing ess, than to cut crime. In the shadow of deep cuts to poicing and other pubic sectors, a agencies are asked to do more with ess and it simpy isn t possibe. From my experience working and supervising front-ine officers, the demands paced on them to fi the various hats is increasing day by day. I fear we are at a tipping point. It shoud be no surprise to Mrs May, now Prime Minister, that the poice are not cutting crime, however, I emphasise that this is not through any faut of their own. How are they expected to do this when they have to take on the roe of other professions when they have neither had the training or expertise in that fied? How are they expected to cut crime when the majority of their time is diverted, deaing with socia issues that shoudn t even come to the poice? The fact remains that poicing is a 24/7 operation and when others cock-off for the weekend, the Bank Hoiday, the festive periods, it s poicing that remains constant. Questions have to be asked to the most senior of poiticians, poice management and the pubic as a whoe as to what the poice shoud be deaing with. We cannot sustain this mode of trying to dea with the word s probems on our own any onger and it s time other partners took some of the sack. With the introduction of the Managed Response Unit (MRU) earier this year, the principa aim was to review sow-time incidents to assess the threat, harm, risk and vunerabiity in order to direct a suitabe response, where appropriate resoving matters without the requirement to depoy a poice officer. Initia feedback from the Centra tria seems positive; so much so that the unit is now expanding to cover the entire Force. Wi this work in the ong run? Wi the actua demand on the poice reduce? I honesty don t know. But we ve got to expore a opportunities. Poice officers wi aways do their best in a situation and, of course, they wi never turn away from someone who is in need, but it s time to re-group and focus our efforts on the areas where we reay need to be, based on our estabishment numbers and resources avaiabe. If the powers-that-be determine that we wi sti continue to service a needs then there has to be a significant reduction in forms and unnecessary bureaucracy combined with enhanced training. A simpe crime investigation now invoves a pethora of form-fiing. Despite Government decrees that red-tape must be cut within the pubic sectors, new procedures and operating methods are being introduced or amended on a reguar basis. But the training and guidance for officers is very much acking. An emai is simpy not sufficient. In an ever-changing word, we need to ensure that our coeagues are adequatey equipped to face whatever demand they face. So now is the time to decide what hat we actuay wear. Is it the traditiona custodian hemet or bower and dea with cutting crime, no more, no ess, or do we venture into more unfamiiar territory? Either way it is vita that the officers on the front-ine are sufficienty informed, trained and equipped as we as being supported by an actua coeague being next to them. The poice are infamous for being fexibe in adapting to an ever-deveoping situation but they can t do this aone. It s not safe, it s not fair. Everyone has their part to pay and the time has come for other agencies to up their game. In the meantime, we just keep jugging the numerous hats with the hope we don t drop one as I have a feeing their origina owners won t be too keen on having them back! We cannot sustain this mode of trying to dea with the word s probems on our own any onger and it s time other partners took some of the sack. Website: 11

12 Cadets represent Force at memoria service Poice Cadets represented North Waes Poice at the Nationa Poice Memoria Day Service. Cadets Gethin Thomas and Aaron Davies Thomas, who are both based with the Western Cadets in Bangor, were privieged to represent the Wesh forces at the service hed at St Pau s Cathedra, London aongside Chief Constabe Mark Poin. The North Waes Poice Cadets were joined by their feow Cadets from the City of London, the Met, Ceveand and Cambridgeshire Poice. Both Gethin and Aaron, who are students at Coeg Menai in Bangor, assisted the guardsmen at St Pau s during the service. They aso had the priviege to ine a guard of honour for HRH Prince Chares and had the opportunity to tak with the Prince about their experiences and earning. PS Ian Roberts who accompanied the Cadets said: This was a moving service with representatives from UK forces, dignitaries and friends and famiy of faen coeagues. It was a unique experience for the Cadets to represent the organisation. Western Cadets are a group of 14 to 17-year-ods from Gwynedd and Angesey areas who give up their time to vounteer in the community and to earn about poice aw and deveop their skis. They meet weeky and foow a nationa programme of eadership, team buiding and an introduction to poice studies. The team aso vounteer at pubic events and are mosty dependabe on charitabe donations. The Cadets began their two-year programme in September Vounteer Poice Cadets are aso based in Rhy and Deeside. We m HRH The Prince of Waes joined the Home Secretary, poice officers and famiy members at this year s Nationa Poice Memoria Day (NPMD) service at St Pau s Cathedra in London. The 13th annua memoria day honoured poice officers who have died or been kied in the ine of duty. Prince Chares, patron of the NPMD charity, joined a congregation of more than 2,000 peope incuding 40 Chief Constabes and a number of dignitaries. He paid tribute to the poice service in a foreword to the commemorative brochure: For many of us, the security chaenges of today further underscore the importance of the poice and their ongoing commitment to protecting us a, despite the inevitabe risks that they face on a daiy basis. Amber Rudd, attending her first memoria day as Home Secretary, gave a reading and said: The poice show extraordinary bravery day in, day out, tacking dangerous situations in order to keep our famiies, communities and country safe. It is tragic when a poice officer oses their ife, protecting their community, and we must never forget their sacrifice. It is my honour to take part in Nationa Poice Memoria Day and pay tribute to the courageous poice officers who have faen in Photos courtesy of Anderson Photography 12

13 ust never forget Nationa Poice Memoria Day was an idea borne out of tragedy and I woud never have dreamed that the charity and service woud progress to have the standing it has today. My aim was to honour my faen coeagues with a fitting annua service of remembrance and bring the nation together to do so. I extend my gratitude to everyone who attended today s service and for their ongoing support. It was a day fied with emotion but aso with immense pride, and I know it meant a ot to the famiies and friends of our faen coeagues to have our patron, The Prince of Waes, with us today. Speaking about the service and its importance, Robin Phiips, father of PC David Phiips, said: This service is important to us as we approach the first anniversary of Dave s tragic death. A of Dave s famiy, and the famiies of those other officers we have ost, gain soace in knowing that they, and the sacrifice they made, is never forgotten. It is aso a comfort for those famiies who may have ost their oved ones many years ago to come together and draw strength from meeting others who share their sense of pain and oss. As part of the service The Nationa Poice Air Service (NPAS) and The Poice Service of Northern Ireand together conducted a formation fy past using three of the heicopters from the Nationa Poice Air Service feet and an Isander aircraft from the Poice Service of Northern Ireand. The service is hed on the ast Sunday of September each year and rotates around Engand, Scotand, Waes and Northern Ireand. the ine of duty and the famiies that are eft behind. The names of officers who have ost their ives during the past year were read by nationa Federation chairman Steve White during the service: Constabe Dougas Wiggins, Poice Scotand; Constabe Sahib Lai, Metropoitan Poice Service; and Constabe Dave Phiips, Merseyside Poice. Candes were it by reatives mourning their oved ones and in remembrance of officers throughout the country who have ost their ives. This year s candes were it by eight-year-od Abigai Phiips, daughter of PC Dave Phiips; Gaynor James, mother of PC Andrew Loyd James, South Waes Poice; Andrea Irvine, widow of part-time Constabe Kenneth Thomas Irvine, Poice Service of Northern Ireand; and Eaine Gordon, daughter of Sergeant Aan Ewen Gordon, Grampian Poice. Prayers were ed by Angus Morrison, brother of DC James Morrison, Metropoitan Poice; Aice Fisher, granddaughter of Reserve Constabe Wiiam Waace Aen, Roya Uster Constabuary; Pau Bone, father of PC Fiona Bone, Greater Manchester Poice; and Chief Constabe Aan Pughsey QPM, Kent Poice. There was sience as petas of remembrance, representing a who have ost their ives, fe from the Whispering Gaery as the orchestra payed Abide With Me and the Last Post was sounded. Inspector Joe Honess QPM, founder of NPMD, said: For me personay, the day was undoubtedy the most poignant service in the history of Nationa Poice Memoria Day. This was my ast service as nationa co-ordinator and to gather again where the inaugura service took pace is somewhat surrea. We wi remember them By Barry Andrews On Sunday 25 September 2016 I was honoured to attend the 13th Nationa Poice Memoria Day service which was hed in St Pau s Cathedra in London. More than 4,000 poice officers have died whie on duty in the past 180 years. However, this sacrifice and dedication to duty remained argey unrecognised unti Inspector Joe Honess of Kent Poice began a campaign to rectify this foowing the death of a coeague, Constabe Jon Ode in December His tireess efforts ead to the inaugura service which was aso hed at St Pau s Cathedra in Since then the service has been hed a over the United Kingdom in Scotand, Waes and Northern Ireand. The service is hed each year on the nearest Sunday to St Michae s Day. St Michae is the patron saint of poice. This year His Roya Highness Prince Chares, who is Patron of the Nationa Poice Memoria Day charity, attended the service. There were 2,000 peope there incuding famiies of faen coeagues, dignitaries and many serving and retired officers incuding most Chief Constabes. The service is now recognised around the word. This was highighted by the attendance of uniformed officers from Austraia, Canada and the USA. There were readings by the new Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, Met Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe and Steve White, Chair of the Federation of Engand and Waes. The most moving moment by far was when eight-year-od Abigai Phiips, daughter of Merseyside s Constabe Dave Phiips, stepped forward to ight a cande and give a short reading to remember those who died from poice forces in Engand. This was foowed by famiy members representing Waes, Scotand and Northern Ireand aso ighting candes. Sience was kept during which 4,000 petas of remembrance, representing a who have ost their ives, descended from the gaery. At this stage the orchestra payed Abide With Me and the Last Post was sounded. It was a very moving moment. I was sitting next to a husband and wife from a Canadian poice force. They both began to cry and it was cear that many peope present were moved to tears at that time. At the concusion Prince Chares met the famiies of those who had taken part in the service in the cathedra s crypt. There was a fy past by the NPAS and a parade of members of the mounted branch. It was peasing to see the support from hundreds of members of the pubic who appauded as they watched. It was the ast service as organiser for Inspector Honess as he wi soon be retiring. He shoud be proud of what he has achieved and how important and respected this service is now regarded. 13

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16 Custody matters By Pau Anderson, North Waes Poice Federation, custody ead The pick of a reay good bunch of speakers at this year s Poice Federation of Engand and Waes (PFEW) Nationa Custody Seminar was Inspector Michae Brown, the award-winning Menta Heath Cop bogger. Inspector Brown, who now ooks at menta heath issues for the Coege of Poicing, was a stand-in for the Met Commander Christine Jones who eads on menta heath for the Nationa Poice Chiefs Counci (NPCC) and was i on the day. Having ony got the nod to speak on the day, Insp Brown, despite having no notes, spoke soidy without any hesitation or stumbing for 45 minutes during his conference presentation. Here was an officer who has the drive to make things better both for those in crisis who find themseves in contact with the poice and for those officers who have to find the soutions to probems for which we just are not the primary or most suitabe agency. It was cear that the coege is aive to the difficuties front-ine officers face when deaing with menta heath issues, not east in custody, with Insp Brown spending a significant amount of time discussing common scenarios that face custody sergeants every day. We were aso informed that to coincide with Word Menta Heath Day on 10 October 2016, the coege woud reease five new menta heath training packages to cater for various eves from those who sedom have contact with menta heath issues to those who work in street triage teams. If the passion in his pubic speaking and bog are anything to go by, then Insp Brown s training package wi be of vaue, I have no doubt. The seminar, hed in Warwick in September, promotes better awareness, knowedge and understanding of what is a compex and high risk area of our business. The first speaker was Surrey Chief Constabe Nick Ephgrave, NPPC ead on custody. He outined a new six-point strategy for custody nationay then raised matters more reevant to the ive custody environment. The first was the introduction next spring of a new decision-making approach specificay for custody. It goes by the name of the fast, fruga trees mode and invoves asking a few simpe questions to speed up the risk assessment process. The second, and inked to the first, was around a reduction in the number of deaths in custody in recent years, but highighting the continued high proportion of menta iness and drug or acoho addiction in those who do die in custody which, of course, eads around again to the importance of the risk assessment process in what custody sergeants do. Unsurprisingy, death and serious incidents in custody was a theme that ran throughout the seminar, with Mr Ephgrave specificay bemoaning the fact that his force has recenty ost staff via resignation because they had simpy had enough of the ength of time investigations into incidents were taking. Some of his officers had aso had menta heath issues and some were not depoyabe on front-ine duties because the investigation was sti ongoing. The ength of investigations into poice officers is something the Federation has been highighting for a number of years now and it was interesting to hear a chief constabe say directy whie the focus shoud righty be on famiies affected by these incidents that there is a significant wefare issue for officers. It remains to be seen whether pressure can be brought to bear on the IPCC, whose chair, Dame Anne Owers was aso a speaker at the seminar. She had no option but to recognise the issue of engthy investigations and expained that the IPCC wi be imminenty undergoing a re-structuring which she hoped woud assist in bringing down the time investigations take. Without any detaied commitment to increased funding or resourcing, I am doubtfu whether this re-structure wi reaise any benefits for officers, whether it be foowing a custody or any other serious incident or investigation incident in terms of more prompt outcomes in the near future. One deegate pointed out that when a crimina is under investigation they can be arrested, charged, found guity and have served a significant time in prison within esser timescaes than some officers are being investigated by the IPCC. Returning to the subject was speaker Juiet Lyon CBE, chair of the Independent Advisory Pane on Death in Custody. The pane s mantra of care not custody is driven by the tragic death of the son of a Women s Institute member of the pane whie he was serving a prison sentence for an incident that had been argey down to his menta heath. She acknowedged that whie deaths in prison have doubed recenty, deaths in poice custody remain ow but that Prime Minister Theresa May has instructed Amber Rudd, the new Home Secretary, that further reductions must be a priority. The pane has identified better competion of PER forms, tied in with the risks of transferring and escorting prisoners, and the use of restraint in poice custody as areas for work to be done. The most controversia speaker of the seminar was the aw society s Richard Atkinson, a seasoned defence soicitor, who has sat on various committees and spoke about protecting detainees rights at the poice station. He chaenged custody sergeants for being too keen to refuse bai foowing charge - pacing too many defendants before a court the next day that in a probabiity woud then reease them. A ivey debate foowed which was fascinating yet conducted with decorum. He went onto to compain about ow percentages of detainees who were represented in custody suites and the pight of defence soicitors whose pay and conditions are being eroded due to cuts, with young awyers apparenty being activey discouraged from entering crimina aw. Susan Freeburn from Sater and Gordon spoke about issues that arise from searching detainees, with the scenario of officers ooking for drugs in the mouths of detainees generating most discussion. There was aso a presentation from Mark Hi of the Poice Estates Group who has provided advice on our new custody suite at Lay. He had some very simpe messages about safety in custody incuding advice to cose ce doors behind detainees in the event of a fire evacuation! He hit the point home with a graphic that showed how quicky the fire at Schipo Airport, Amsterdam in 2001 spread within the detention centre there after doors had been eft open. He aso spoke about the 2mm rue which is the same width as 2 coin. Therefore if a 2 coin can fit inside any gap or crack in a custody ce then so can a shoeace or the hook of a bra strap. So with these essons taken on board and the day of the week being correct, I didn t miss out on Top Tips Tuesday at a, despite being out of Force! Finay, there was an update on various aspects of aw from Michae Zander QC. The most interesting was about the new concordat or officia agreement that wi ensure that a requests for accommodation for juvenies who are refused bai by custody sergeants are accepted and fufied by oca authorities. He aso spoke about the difficuties that wi so ceary arise with the new Bai Act, when the new aw wi make it cear that there wi aways be a presumption of reease without bai, even foowing an arrest for breach of bai! This is one of the most significant pieces of egisation to affect day to day poicing in recent times. I eft the seminar having istened to some fascinating taks on subjects that are reay reevant to custody, reaising ever more that those of you work within custody face unprecedented eves of risk and scrutiny. I wi try to keep you updated with any deveopments that wi hep and support you. 16

17 The Botha Disaster Rhosneigr 1941 By Inspector Jason Higgins Gwynedd Inspectors Representative Sitting in my office ate one Friday afternoon, having batted with a mountain of e-mais for a week, yet another emai pops into my inbox. This one is from the DCI. I d better open it just in case it s important. You know the sort of thing, a ast minute request for officers to carry out some task or other. I opened the e-mai and it was a request from the Vaey Aviation Society for a poice officer to attend a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the Botha Disaster in Rhosneigr. What s that a about then? A pane forced to ditch in the sea, a daring attempt at a rescue by two teenagers, heroic actions, many casuaties. My first reaction is to forward the e-mai to the oca CSO and ask them to pop aong. No, perhaps it woud be more appropriate to send a constabe? My curiosity gets the better of me and I want to know why they want the poice to attend. I open the attachment Casuaty ist and there s the reason. Two thirds of the way down the ist of fataities is the name PC14 George Cedwyn Arthur, Angesey Constabuary. We, that settes it then, I am definitey going to this. The Backburn Botha was designed as a medium range bomber shorty before the Second Word War. The aircraft became notorious for its ack of power and frequent mechanica faiures and was soon rendered obsoete by powerfu ong range bombers required for cross-channe operations. The Botha was reegated to training and transport missions. At 11.30am on Thursday 28 August 1941 Fight L6417 attempted to take off from RAF Vaey with a crew of three, a Poish Air Force piot and two trainee navigators. The fight was a training mission to south west Scotand. Minutes into take-off, the aircraft punged into the sea haf a mie off the coast at Rhosneigr. The most incredibe but tragic chain of events was then set in tow. Having witnessed the crash, two 17-year-od boys - John Wood from Chester and Derrick Baynham from Waton-on Thames - put to sea in a sma boat. Showing immense bravery they managed to reach the aircraft and reease the seriousy injured piot from the cockpit. They had to eave the other crew members cinging to the aircraft wreckage whie they tried to get the piot to shore. The sea conditions were rough and a short distance from shore they had to get the piot out of their boat and secured him to a gun empacement. Shorty after, the boat capsized throwing them into the sea. Sodiers from the Roya Artiery Coasta Defence Gun Battery had made their way to the beach and formed a human chain, rescuing the two boys and recovering the piot who unfortunatey died of his injuries in hospita. Meanwhie in Rhosneigr Harbour another tragic chapter of the tae was unfoding. PC George Arthur, the Rhosneigr viage constabe, Arthur Owen, a merchant seaman on compassionate shore eave, two sodiers and Evan Jones of the Auxiiary Coastguard put to sea in an od whaing boat to rescue the airmen sti in the sea. The tide had pushed the wrecked aircraft and the airmen coser to shore. They were now ony a quarter of a mie away and no doubt the hastiy mustered crew of the whaer thought they woud be abe to save them. However, the whaer was overturned by a wave before it reached the aircraft. A the men on board were thrown into the sea. In 1941 there were no heicopters and the best the RAF coud do was to send up an aircraft fu of ifejackets and drop them into the sea in the hope that the men woud get to them and survive ong enough to get to shore. Sady, it was not to be. The wind bew the faing ifejackets away from the men. On that fatefu day eight ives were ost incuding that of 29-year-od PC George Arthur. Sunday morning 28 August 2016 has arrived and I am at the fire station in Rhosneigr. Unfortunatey, I have not had time to arrange a wreath so some fowers wi have to do. The RAF, coastguard, fire service and RNLI are there and we have a brief ceremony at the memoria stone after a minute s sience to remember those who ost their ives. I paid a tribute to PC Arthur which was we received. I had the peasure of meeting Mr G. A. Thomas, the ast surviving member of the Rhosneigr ifeboat crew from He is 90-years-od and his memories of that sad day are sti very cear and poignant. He kindy provided photographs of PC Arthur s funera and showed me where he was standing in the photograph outside Rhosneigr Poice Station, as a 14-year-od boy. I had the peasure meeting a ady who I had originay been tod by one guest was PC Arthur s mother; I honesty didn t beieve that! She was in fact the daughter of the merchant seaman Arthur Owen. Fate had deat a very crue bow to First Officer Owen and his famiy that day. He was home having been granted compassionate eave to attend his father s funera. As the events of 28 August unfoded, Mr Owen acted sefessy aong with the other rescuers to try to save the ives of the airmen. Mr Owen s ate wife and daughter have ived, and are iving, with the consequences. Whie she was very proud of her ate father, I coud sti sense the pain that the oss had caused 75 years ater. PC Arthur was from Amwch and was buried in the cemetery there after a funera with fu honours. I refected on the way that the bravery of those men, the eight who gave their ives to try to save three others seems to have gone reativey unremarked beyond the Menai Straits. In 1941 such a tragedy woud have been seen in the context of war-time Britain. In May that year, Liverpoo had suffered a week of sustained German bombing with a civiian death to of 4,000 and many others injured. By May 1941 London had been subjected to more than eight months of air raids with 43,000 civiian ives ost. By August, Hiter had turned his attention to the eastern front, reducing the pressure on the British mainand. The event at Rhosneigr on 28 August whie truy shocking woud have probaby been fairy unremarkabe outside of North Waes. PC Arthur was posthumousy awarded the RNLI Bronze Meda and the King s Commendation For Brave Conduct. Facebook: 17

18 Sign up to the PTC you never know when you might need it By PC Danie Owen Having joined North Waes Poice at the age 20, I thought it woud be some time before I woud have to visit the Poice Treatment Centre (PTC) for any heath or physica compaint. However, neary four years into service, I was assauted whie arresting an offender and suffered a fractured anke. I was hospitaised for five days and had to undergo surgery to reaign and fix the anke with screws and pates. Post-surgery, I was in paster for six weeks and was then referred to NHS physiotherapy. Having signed up for the PTC when I joined, I was eigibe to attend the centre for treatment. Before attending, I had competed four sessions of NHS physiotherapy, I was waking again but with a painfu imp, and I had imited fexibiity in the anke. It was difficut to make any rea progress with ony one session a week on the NHS. I appied for treatment at the PTC, Harrogate and was schedued for two weeks treatment in ate March this year. I must admit I wasn t expecting them to work miraces and merey expected to regain some fexibiity and hopefuy be abe to wak without a imp. The faciities were second to none; it fet ike a treatment centre for pro athetes. I had a persona physiotherapist who I visited daiy. They treated the anke with manipuation and increased the movement day by day, and I even had acupuncture as part of my treatment. In addition, my physiotherapist heped me with a daiy exercise pan, using the gym, hydrotherapy poo, swimming poo and the anti-gravity treadmis. It was a painfu two weeks, however, having arrived in Harrogate with a painfu imp and imited fexibiity, I eft two weeks ater being abe to run, jump, and from height and turn on the injured anke. I was amazed at how much I had recovered in such a short space of time, my time at the PTC amost definitey heped me with being abe to return to work ony four months after sustaining the injury, I had originay been tod Take a fresh ook at the PTC By Me Jones, Deputy Secretary and Treasurer of North Waes Poice Federation The artice written by Danie provides a vauabe insight into the benefit of being a member of the Poice Treatment Centres which are ocated in at either St Andrews in Harrogate, North Yorkshire or Castebrae in Auchterarder, Perthshire. Amost 4,000 serving and retired officers attend one of the two treatment centres each year I am certain that a the officers who attend the treatment centres woud happiy give the same testimonia as Danie. The treatments avaiabe are second to none and assist officers to regain fu fitness. The quaity of treatment provided coud sady never be repicated by the NHS where there are very ong waiting ists for physiotherapy and counseing services. The cost of having this treatment carried out privatey is prohibitive and it resuts in officers being on a waiting ist for severa months. The subscription cost is 7.80 per month which provides exceent vaue for money if you are ever unfortunate enough 18

19 Our detectives are worthy of awards to expect to be off work for more than six months. It is worth noting that there are a variety of different activities on daiy basis and a chance for you to try something you may not have tried back at home, for exampe, Piates, box fit, spinning to name a few. The accommodation is very good, comfortabe and reaxing! The food provided is aso very good, penty of choice and variety. When you re not in the gym or swimming poo, there is penty to do. There are two ounges, both have arge fat screen TVs with Sky (Sky Sports and Movies incuded). There are poo and snooker tabes and you re aso abe to hire bikes for the day if you fancy getting out to expore a bit. Personay, the advantages of the PTC cannot be underestimated. My advice to anyone joining the organisation is to sign up! You never know when you might need their services and for the sma monthy donation that it costs, it is comforting to know that if you are injured or have any other wefare issues then there is somewhere you can go to get the treatment you need. to require the services of the treatment centres. The subscription covers a the treatment, food and accommodation costs. Around 50,000 of the 67,000 poice officers within the PTC service area donate to the PTC. If you are in the minority who do not, pease take a fresh ook at the PTC and see how you too coud benefit from what they can offer. Visit their website for further information www. thepoicetreatmentcentres.org If you want to subscribe, emai SSF Payro and they wi begin deductions direct from your saary. By Nick Hawe Next time you see the emai which comes through with the nomination forms for the Poice Federation Nationa Detectives Forum (PFNDF) Awards, just before you deete it take a minute and think. Think about what you and your coeagues have achieved over the previous 12 months. I guarantee that you wi be surprised about the exceent jobs you have simpy forgotten about, because you just get on with the job. Pease think about some exampes and take the time to nominate them, it is the very east that you a deserve. The nomination aone wi get recognised with a response, even if it does not win an award. Sometimes that itte pat on the back can make a the difference. I say this because on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 October 2016, I attended the PFNDF annua seminar and awards in Broughton, near Scunthorpe. On the Thursday evening, numerous awards were presented to detectives from across Engand and Waes, recognising their achievements and hard work throughout the year. It is an honour to witness officers being praised and appauded, a very wecome change to the norma sort of feedback the majority of officers receive. Whie I was impressed by what they had done, it did strike me that some of the exampes were no better than the type of work that North Waes Poice officers have done, and do, day in and day out, and yet they have so far been overooked. I do share the nomination emais with members, but I have disappointingy not had any back. I know that there have been numerous exampes of Outstanding Trainee Detectives, Services To Detectives, Smarter Detectives and investigations worthy of praise and recognition. It is with this in mind, that I make this request for you to stop and think before deeting the emai when I send it out next year. Going back to this year s awards though, one contentious deivery at the seminar was given by a detective superintendent from the Metropoitan Poice. The Met are 700 short of the number of detectives they shoud have. The detective numbers in Engand and Waes are ower than needed across the board. New and emerging crime types, couped with risks to vunerabe chidren and aduts, mean that new departments have had to be created. This is a very we but those resources generay come from one pace and that is response. Annoyingy, the short-term response in the Met is to tria direct entry at detective eve. I won t go into any detai here but, suffice to say, there were many comments from the foor. One of these hit home with the audience. Instead of ooking esewhere to graduates or peope from other waks of ife who can bring their experience, why not ook at what we aready have? That is a weath of taent, skis, experience and determination which turns up to work, day in and day out, and performs the roe of a poice officer. I know of officers who have faied the exam, and aso some who just do not se themseves correcty during interviews. But I know for sure that we in North Waes Poice have got masses of taented and keen officers who coud benefit a mutitude of roes. It is a shame that the Met are choosing not to nurture what they aready have. I know that there have been numerous exampes of Outstanding Trainee Detectives, Services To Detectives, Smarter Detectives and investigations worthy of praise and recognition. Representing Negotiating Infuencing 19

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21 Meet Pat, our new Angesey rep My name is Pat Murray. I m the new Angesey Sergeants Federation representative and I ve been asked to write something to introduce mysef. This might be where you want to turn the page I had never previousy considered a roe as a Federation representative. When the vacant post was advertised, I read the e-mai and prompty forgot about it. It wasn t unti much ater when I actuay started discussing the roe with some current reps that I seriousy considered whether to put mysef forward for the post. Even then it took some considerabe prompting from coeagues before I finay put my name forward. But reay, given the recent battering that our job continuay suffers at the hands of poiticians, poicy makers, bureaucrats and journaists I fee that our voice aso needs to be heard and that the post of a Federation representative is more important than ever. Federation representatives are vita in order to protect and promote officers interests and wefare. I am personay concerned that morae within the service is at its owest ebb and that the wefare of serving officers sometimes appears to be one of the ast things taken into account. If we fai to protect the wefare of our workforce we woud not function as an organisation therefore it is vita that members have the support of their Federation in deaing with any interests or issues. By the time you read this I shoud have attended my initia reps course in Leatherhead which I am sure wi provide me with a foundation on which to buid my knowedge and understanding of the roe. I have more than 20 years of uniformed service behind me. I was originay an officer for the Met Poice. In eary 1996, I and my equay new and shiny coeague were kicked out onto the streets with the ony briefing being: For God s sake, try not to fou up too bady! As a PC, I worked at stations covering the City of Westminster, Camden, Kentish Town and Hampstead. In 2005 I was promoted to sergeant and spent the ast 12 months of my service with the Met in the Borough of Harrow. Whie in London, I met and subsequenty married a Caernarfon gir who was working at The Yard. Against her better judgement, I convinced her we needed to move to North Waes. In 2006 I transferred to North Waes Poice. My initia posting was as a Response PC at Langefni Poice Station on Angesey before I was promoted to sergeant for a second time. I ve subsequenty done a five-year stint in Hoyhead and Caernarfon Custody Suites before being reeased back into the wid and have spent the ast two and a haf years working as a Response Sergeant on Angesey. Outside of work I read, attempt to grow things in an aotment and support Pymouth Argye FC. Pease don t hesitate to contact me, if I can hep you in any way my detais are on the system. Given the recent battering that our job continuay suffers at the hands of poiticians, poicy makers, bureaucrats and journaists I fee that our voice aso needs to be heard and that the post of a Federation representative is more important than ever. Our new Wesh speaking Fed rep I am Acting Sergeant Trystan Bevan, I am the new Western Wesh speaking workpace representative on the North Waes Poice Joint Branch Board. It may be usefu to provide a itte of my background information. I hai from the sma viage of Rhostryfan, near Caernarfon. I am a first anguage Wesh speaker and competed my primary, secondary and further education entirey through the medium of the Wesh anguage. I joined North Waes Poice in the summer of 2002 and, foowing my probationary period at Landudno and Conwy, I became an authorised firearms officer based at St Asaph covering the entire Force area. Some years ater I became a dog hander based at Landegai. This period of duty was foowed by a return to the firearms department as a member of the Roya Residency Protection team, based in Angesey. During this stage of my career, I passed Parts 1 and 2 of the OSPRE sergeants exam. The current system simpy does not have any structures in pace to faciitate or permit parts of the promotion process to be taken through the medium of Wesh. In 2012, I joined the Roads Poicing Unit based at Landegai and this is a roe I continue to undertake to the present date. The cynics among my coeagues are probaby thinking, why woud anyone vounteer to become a Wesh anguage Federation representative? The simpe answer is that during my preparation to take the OSPRE Parts 1 and 2 as part of the promotion process, I became aware of the inequaities and additiona hurdes that first anguage Wesh speakers have to navigate and overcome in an effort to gain promotion. The current system simpy does not have any structures in pace to faciitate or permit parts of the promotion process to be taken through the medium of Wesh. Why do I beieve this issue is important? We, we are constanty being tod that North Waes Poice is a bi-ingua poice service and indeed there is considerabe evidence to support this assertion, for exampe, signage on poice vehices, uniforms and in the buidings we occupy. I do, however, fee we have ost some of our Cymreictod or Weshness with the oss of the Wesh fag from our operationa back tops. We are frequenty reminded that the Wesh and Engish anguages have equa parity within the North Waes Poice service area, however, there is some evidence to suggest that this is not aways the case when it comes to the experiences of a number of members of staff. Can I pease assure you a, that it is not my intention to poiticise this issue, and I am certainy not advocating that first anguage Wesh speaking officers shoud be given any preferentia treatment in the promotion process, or indeed in any other aspect of their working ives. I am merey seeking a eve paying fied for a North Waes Poice coeagues. I woud aso ike to assure a coeagues throughout the Force area that I wi give them my fu support in a matters incuding those reating to the use of the Wesh anguage in their working environment. Representing Negotiating Infuencing 21

22 Our new Gwynedd North rep By Eizabeth Owen, North Waes Poice Federation representative I woud ike to take this opportunity to introduce mysef as the new Gwynedd North Constabes Poice Federation representative. For those who don t know me, I am Landudno born and bred and I have 15 years experience as a constabe. It ony seems ike yesterday that I was wrinke-free and had the ca that I was going to Hoyhead and that WEST IS BEST. I can t remember who said that to me but they were correct. Having competed my probation in Hoyhead, I then moved on to Bangor where I served a further two years before moving onto the Force Contro Room working on the IST department and as a communication operator. Due to cutbacks within the Contro Room, I then found mysef back where I started, in the West, in Bangor Poice Station. I was not very happy about this to say the east - consideration was given to chaining mysef to the gates - as I thoroughy enjoyed working within the Contro Room and I had earnt a ot. However, 18 months down the ine, I coudn t be happier and I am now based in Caernarfon Poice Station, even further west! My main hobbies are shopping, shopping, more shopping, eating and attending fitness casses with the atter being because of my ove of food. I have successfuy competed four Tough Mudders and I am ooking forward to competing another two in I am due to attend my initia reps course in December down at Leatherhead. I have been tod by previous Federation representatives that the course is one of the best they have been on and I am sure it wi provide me with a foundation on which to buid my knowedge, experience and understanding of the roe. I have ony been in post for a few weeks but have aready been surprised at how much work the Federation does for its members in Force and nationa issues that affect us from pay and conditions through to discipines and officer support. I ook forward to representing you and hope that you fee happy to approach me once I have setted into my roe and buit up my knowedge and understanding. If you have any concerns or wish to speak to me regarding any issues that concern you pease don t hesitate to get in touch, my detais are on the system. Quaity Insurance at Internet Prices! Save up to 40% on your Insurance, for a serving & retired Poice Officers, Specias, Staff and Partners Everything Taken Care Of MOTOR INSURANCE HOME INSURANCE MOTORCYCLE INSURANCE Ca NOW! or visit Foow us on: 22

23 Goodbye 30 years in North Waes Poice By Jane Thomas 5 January 1987, I remember it as if it was yesterday, a 21-year-od arriving at HQ with my suitcase, bued shoes and pressed uniform. How we ever managed to get a crease in those thick wooen tunics I wi never know. This was the start of a near 30-year journey during which time I have been very fortunate to meet some fantastic coeagues and friends, some of whom were infuentia in my choice of career on roads poicing, a roe I have been fortunate to hod for some 26 years as a constabe and sergeant. Many changes have been taken pace during my service in reation to our methods of communication. Imagine ife in the service without emai. How many of us can remember the mass of white paper ticker tape we had to produce to send the daiy reports across the division via teex machine? And the unreiabe radios not persona issue? If you coud find a coupe of batteries that woud ast the fu shift then happy days. What about the uniform? I often hear officers compaining about the current operationa tops, the bady fitting faded cargo trousers and the stab vests we are now suppied with. We, a I can say is: You don t know you are born. Poicewomen now have a uniform fit for purpose, no onger do we have to wear A- ine skirts, carry handbags and have a wooden staff no onger than 20cms as our ony means of PPE. If anyone has had to cimb over a six bar gate in pitch dark searching for a missing chid in a skirt, size nine weingtons (the smaest size avaiabe) and a ong back gabardine coat you wi be abe to empathise with me. With this mind, I have been fortunate during the ast 16 years to be a Federation rep which has aowed me to be a member of the Cothing and Equipment Committee. This committee over the years has provided, in my opinion, some exceent uniform for officers. The days where one size fits none hopefuy have gone and gender specific equipment is readiy avaiabe. Athough this committee is no onger in being, it is important that everyone has a voice in what we wear and the equipment we use. One of the biggest changes I have witnessed in my 30 years concerns the opportunities now afforded to femae officers. We are no onger part of a quota on speciaist departments, no onger asked to ook after ost chidren and stay on switchboards during busy shifts for fear we wi get assauted. I reca from my days in Rhy when I was put on the front desk on a Christmas Eve as it was thought to be the safest pace, then being sent to Cowyn Bay Poice Station to babysit a femae prisoner for the rest of the night shift; not a task I was expecting or hoping for when I came into work that evening. I can sti remember the words spoken to me by a senior officer on my move to Barmouth in 1991 who stated during my wecome meeting to the section: I don t know why they have sent you here we aready have a poice woman in Barmouth. I am sure no offence was meant by this but thankfuy these situations no onger exist, and the formation of the Women s Association over 10 years ago has strived to give femae officers the confidence and ambition to achieve their goas whether that be on speciaist department or as a supervisor. If I coud turn back the cock woud I sti have joined North Waes Poice? Yes, without hesitation, North Waes Poice has given me 30 years of a career which has provided me with so many different experiences, some have provided me with great aughter and some have provided my rota with great aughter at my expense. Ask Jo Roberts about the time we got the patro car stuck on Caia Park and the need to jet wash me and the vehice after we attempted to push the vehice out of thick mud. The job of a poice officer can, however, be extremey demanding and at times can be quite emotiona. Very few members of the pubic wi be abe to appreciate the emotions a poice officer wi experience in their day to day work, couped with the ever-increasing demands paced upon officers as a resut of the cut in poice numbers. On a persona note, my roe as a RPU officer has provided me with a great amount of satisfaction working as a team to provide famiies affected by the oss of a oved one in a road traffic coision and working towards securing successfu prosecutions and justice for famiies. Looking back this has been achieved due to good team working. It is important that as officers you continue working together and heping each other to ensure that, despite Government cuts and the erosion of poice pensions and pay and conditions, we continue providing the pubic with a poice service they deserve. I cannot sign off before mentioning our oca Federation. I have been the RPU sergeants representative for more than 16 years. I have thoroughy enjoyed the roe and woud recommend that officers consider putting themseves forward to represent their coeagues in the future. I am sure that in the years ahead you wi see a ot of changes, some for the better and some perhaps for the worse. Let s ensure the Federation remains strong and fit for purpose but to do this your support is needed. On 23 December I wi work my ast shift for North Waes Poice. Can I take this opportunity to wish everyone a the best for the future and I hope you a have a great Christmas? Stay safe. Representing Negotiating Infuencing 23

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25 Top tips for separated coupes on arranging time with chidren over Christmas By Roand Humphries Principa awyer in famiy aw at Sater and Gordon Christmas is a time for famiies to come together but for those famiies that have separated it can be a chaenging time. It is aways difficut to decide who shoud spend time with chidren and when. The festive season may sti be some way off but at Sater and Gordon we have aready seen an increase in the number of enquiries from cients about how to divide time over Christmas. Here are some of my top tips to hep separated coupes manage the festive period: Compromise is crucia. Christmas is a magica time where your chidren shoud be at the heart of any pans. Think about how they woud ike to spend their Christmas Day. Pan your arrangements as eary as possibe. This shoud give you penty of time to identify and amicaby resove any potentia disagreements. And if cashes can t be resoved, then ook at other options incuding attending mediation, seeking advice from a famiy awyer or utimatey, if an agreement reay cannot be reached, an appication to the court can be made. Before making an appication to the court speciaist advice from a famiy awyer shoud be sought. If you do fee you have exhausted a other options and need to make an appication to the court, then this appication shoud be made as soon as possibe. The courts are very busy and December is one of the most congested. Depending on how busy your oca court is appications generay take anything from one to four months to be heard. Some separating parents choose to spit Christmas Day. This tends to work best when parents ive cose together. If you do not ive nearby then spitting Christmas Day may not be in your chidren s best interests and it is often considered unfair to expect chidren to have to trave on Christmas Day. If just one parent is going to spend Christmas Day with the chidren, then this shoud be aternated next year with the other parent. If you are the parent who does not have the chidren this Christmas then try to re-create Christmas Day on another day such as Boxing Day so the chidren have the benefit of two Christmases. Importanty, try to reax and enjoy the time you have with the chidren on whatever day is it. After the Christmas period is over, it is important to refect on what has and has not worked for the chidren. Parents shoud then discuss this and work together to ensure any of the same issues are not encountered again. If you woud ike speciaist advice from a famiy awyer then pease contact Sater and Gordon on and we be happy to hep. Join your Credit Union Today Excusivey for the Poice Famiy No1 CopperPot C R E D I T U N I O N Easy access savings. Simpe and transparent oans and mortgages. with North Waes Poice. members receive an annua dividend. savings and oans you hod with us. A oans are subject to a ordabiity and our ending criteria. Your home may be repossessed if you do not keep up repayments on your mortgage. Representing Negotiating Become a member today at Infuencing 25

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27 Gory for Force in the Wesh Poice Cup North Waes Poice footba team stormed to a 4-3 win over South Waes Poice in the Wesh Poice Fina hed at Merthyr Tydfi FC. The Force team reached the fina having beaten Gwent Poice 4-1 in the summer and team expectations were high foowing good performances in previous games. An exceptionay strong ooking squad, however, was hit by a number of ate withdrawas meaning that manager PC Rich Hughes and assistant PC Chris Jones took a squad of 11 incuding Hughes in a payer/manager roe. Despite the ate withdrawas, the squad boasted quaity payers and ined up with good representation from different districts and departments for the match on Wednesday 7 September. Team captain A/DI Chris Be moved to goakeeper with Rhy s PC Kieran Davies partnering veteran Det Supt Steve Wiiams at centre back. Fu backs were MRUs PC Chris Davies and Armed Poicing s Sgt Kaum Davies. Midfied was anchored by manager Hughes and boasted the quaity of PCSO Dan Stanton, ASB Officer Andy Watkin and debutant Dispatcher Gareth Evans from the JCC. Up front was the reentess PCSO Duncan Midgey from Landudno and PC Marc Jones of Prestatyn. The team were aby assisted by PC Pau Davies of Training as the team s medic with his daughter, Beth Davies, as physio. Conditions coudn t have been better for the game with the sun beting down on Merthyr s fantastic 3G paying surface. In the eary moments of the game, the notoriousy sow-starting NWP were caught in possession and SWP s attacking midfieder ofted a cassy finish from the eft edge of the box over the stranded Be. This eary goa fired NWP into ife and the team s dynamic midfied began to dictate pay with Watkin and Stanton getting on the ba and feeding Midgey and Jones who stretched the physica SWP defence. It was debutant Evans who brought about NWP s first goa as Evans used his ski to eave a coupe of SWP payers in his wake. Evans own effort hit the post, however, he unsefishy squared it to Midgey who showed his composure and finished ow to the keeper s right. NWP s equaiser setted the game into its pattern of NWP paying far more attractive footba against SWP s more physica based game. This ed SWP to again take the ead against the run of pay when faiure to cear a ong ba into the box from a set pay presented SWP s striker with a cose range chance. Be kept out the initia effort but coud not stop the foow-up. NWP again responded and dominated the rest of the haf with superb attacking pay seeing a number of chances go begging to eve. It was Evans who eventuay brought the scores to 2-2 with a ovey strike from the edge of the SWP box and NWP finished the haf in the ascendancy. The second haf again saw NWP start sowy with SWP having a coupe of haf chances but NWP responded and cracking work by the tireess Midgey saw him cross ow from the right to his strike partner Jones who sotted home from the six-yard area. NWP continued to attack with superb pay between the midfied and attack seeing Jones score his second pacing a shot from 18 yards eaving the SWP keeper with no chance. With the scores at 4-2 SWP heads dropped and they were forced to into hopefu ong bas to their strikers, however, Kieran Davies and Steve Wiiams were superb in their defensive pay with both of the Davies at fu back in support. The game took an unfortunate swing when Stanton was sent off after two quick-fire yeows foowing a proonged physica batte with SWP s aggressive midfied. The fina 10 minutes saw nerves tested as SWP brought on their subs on to test the 10 payers remaining. Their pressure paid off as SWP again were fortunate with a cearance from Wiiams hitting their striker and faing to an unmarked SWP payer who toe-poked under Be to bring the scores to 4-3. NWP s defence remained firm and saw the game out eading to ceebrations at the fina whiste - and Rich Hughes passing out with exhaustion - as NWP recaimed the Wesh Poice Trophy for the first time in 15 years! Representing Negotiating Infuencing 27

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