More than 36,000 police officers, staff, and volunteers across UK policing have given their views on how the service can best support them by filling in the national police wellbeing survey.
As part of our work on Op Hampshire, we were interested to understand if the Microsoft 365 productivity tools being rolled out across the country could be used to monitor assaults on officers and staff, and the support provided after such incidents.
This Sunday is World Mental Health Day. Oscar Kilo, the National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS) works really hard all year supporting your forces so they can support you if you are suffering from poor mental health.
Wellbeing and trauma support dogs don’t just support our officers and staff around the country, some of them support their families. We just had to share this heartwarming story of how Baloo, wellbeing dog from Essex Police helped Charlie.
In this blog, Phil talks about the journey he and his family have been through after his daughter was diagnosed with anorexia and how they have pulled together to support each other and to improve her mental health.
Rachel Blackwell talks about how she got into mindfulness and why she thinks it is a useful part of any police officer’s kit both in our professional and personal lives. She has also included some short mindfulness sessions that you can try at home.
