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This year's survey received the highest response rate yet and highlights leadership skills and tackling hindrance stressors as high priority.

We have published the April edition of our new regular bulletins. Read about it and how to access these regular updates.

Congratulations goes to Luis who is an OK9 top dog and his handler Catherine Parfitt from Thames Valley Police. In this article you will discover what Luis has been up to to deserve this honour.

Since we launched the original Oscar Kilo website back in 2016, our offer has continued to grow and change - so it was important to us to make sure that our online home and access point into the service grew with it.

This week, our OK9 team were honoured to receive an award at the national InsideOut Awards.

The Oscar Kilo 2022 Awards are now closed, we will be announcing the winners in the summer. The 2023 Awards will be open for submissions in the Autumn.

A brand-new app has been launched allowing police forces to record incidents of assault against officers and staff in a consistent way.

Congratulations goes to Truffles who is an OK9 top dog. In this article written by her handler Paul Van Veen from West Midlands Police, you can read about how Truffles made a difference to a young girl with selective mutism and how this has impacted her family life. 

Find out how pieces of academic work are helping the study of wellbeing in policing.

A consensus statement setting out the police service’s commitment to suicide prevention will be published on Tuesday, 22 February 2022.

We have teamed up with Nuffield Health to bring their online COVID-19 rehabilitation programme to policing.

After our wellbeing dogs and their handlers have been on visits we tend to get lots of feedback about the work they do and it is always overwhelmingly positive. Here is a collection of feedback about wellbeing dog Darcy and her handler PC Cathy Veale from Devon, Cornwall and Dorset Police Alliance, they are so great we decided she should be our first OK9 top dog.