ANNUAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE


PFEW TO BECOME THE UNEQUIVOCAL VOICE OF POLICING


The Federation should be the unequivocal voice of policing, setting the policing agenda, and rallying together, a session on pay, conditions and pensions heard. In a session facilitated by Tony Blair’s former spokesperson,


Alastair Campbell, who recently appeared as a host on the breakfast TV programme Good Morning Britain, and featured inputs from PFEW National Secretary Alex Duncan and Deputy National Secretary John Partington. “As we come out of the pandemic and we return to normality,


I think it’s beholding on PFEW to be the unequivocal voice of policing. We need to get our message out more – we will all have different opinions, but it’s important we rally together,” Alex said. John added: “We have to realise how powerful we can be


when we come together with a united front.” Time was spent discussing the uncertainty around pensions


Alastair Campbell facilitates the pay and conditions session


with Alex explaining there were officers who had no pension forecast, no idea of when they could retire and no details of what they would be entitled to. But he said the Federation was working with the Government and further guidance was imminent, including a pension calculator tool that was being tested.


OFFICER SENDS CLEAR MESSAGE ON VACCINE


National Federation Chair John Apter paused his keynote address to play a message from a Devon and Cornwall officer who was among the 5,000 policing the G7 summit in Carbis Bay during the conference week. Leanne Gould (26) said: “I’m concerned about the


amount of people travelling down to G7 this week and the fact that I have not been vaccinated and many of us haven’t, especially with the new Indian variant that is spreading. “I thought the police would be prioritised after the most vulnerable, like our NHS colleagues on the frontline were. I do feel completely let down by the Government as we’ve just been left exposed to the enormous risk of catching the virus.” Leanne pointed out that colleagues are in close proximity


to the public and have been spat at and bitten. John responded, telling the Home Secretary: “We have young police officers who, by age alone, will not have been vaccinated but are working at G7. How can that be right? Leanne and her colleagues are doing their very best and she speaks for all of us about how badly let down we do feel. This is a failing of Government that we can never forget.”


PC Leanne Gould shares concerns over the vaccine roll-out


“I thought the police would be prioritised after the most vulnerable, like our NHS colleagues on the frontline were. I do feel completely let down by the Government as we’ve just been left exposed to the enormous risk of catching the virus.”


13 I POLICE I AUGUST 2021


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