THE NEW LEADERS
NATIONAL TREASURER SIMON KEMPTON AND DEPUTY NATIONAL TREASURER KEV WILSON
Simon joined Dorset Police in 2000, rising to the rank of Sergeant and gaining qualifications such as licensed Search Team Leader and Hostage and Crisis Negotiator. He has been a Federation rep for seven years, as well as maintaining his role on his home board as a Misconduct rep. Kev has been a police officer for more than 27 years, serving in Kent and Durham forces. In 2010, he was Durham JBB Chair, and was Durham Branch Secretary and Treasurer from 2013 until this year.
How does it feel to have been elected into your new role? S: I’m proud and humbled to have been trusted by my colleagues with this role. But I feel the huge responsibility that comes with the job. I’m extremely lucky to work with a great group of people, starting with Kev, and the finance team at Leatherhead, who are incredibly talented and dedicated to our shared targets.
K: I feel immensely proud and honoured – I have been a police officer for more than 27 years, spending the last 11 years as a full time National Council member. I have been the Branch Board Secretary and Treasurer for the Durham Police Federation Branch. It was amazing enough to be elected by my regional peers as a National Board member, but to be elected as the new National Deputy Treasurer, working closely with all internal and external financial stakeholders involved with PFEW, is just wow!
Can you tell us about what your new role encompasses? S: There’s a day-to-day aspect to the role, processing invoices and payments to the many solicitors and medical experts who support our members. We manage the income and expenditure to protect the finances that our members entrust to us. We advise colleagues across the organisation on finance policy
and legislation. On a wider note, it is our
job to introduce, embed and monitor policies that ensure good financial governance, working alongside the Chairs and Secretary’s offices. Over the past few years, we’ve brought in a raft of policies, introducing more professional ways to manage the finances. This is key to improving transparency and building trust. To back this up, we organise a full, independent audit of our accounts each year and work alongside internal auditors to ensure we continue to have financial stability.
K: My new role is going to encompass many different responsibilities from training treasurers and trustees, external income generation, managing treasurers’ seminars, keeping our online resources up to date and relevant to finance. It involves compiling a treasurers and trustees newsletter with updates covering lessons learned and best practice from around the country and engagement with our internal audit manager and our PFEW national trustees. I oversee and have responsibility for PFEW involvement with National Police Memorial Day.
for officers every year, fighting to protect their rights, and millions more on medical experts, a strong branch network with well-trained local reps and the vital work undertaken by business area leads, making the case safer. This work has a positive effect on police officers, and for it to continue, especially during financial uncertainty, we need strong finances. I will leave the role with the Federation in a stronger position, ready to carry on representing officers for years to come, and that’s when I’ll feel I’ve done my job properly.
K: I am most looking forward to drilling down for better efficiency and costs to PFEW nationally and supporting all my regional and local colleagues in their roles as treasurers and trustees at branches. I am looking forward to bringing unity for all our PFEW Financial policies, processes, and governance, as I truly believe this will improve trust.
What are your top three priorities for the next three years?
“We spend millions of pounds on expert legal support, fighting to
protect their rights, and millions more on medical experts, a strong branch network with well-trained local reps,
making the case for better, safer places of work.” – Simon Kempton
What are you most looking forward to in this new role?
S: It’s perhaps not the most exciting role I’ve ever undertaken in 22 years in the job, but it’s interesting, if sometimes frustrating. I feel the reward of being able to play my small part in making sure the Federation will support officers into the future. We spend many millions of pounds on expert legal support
S: My main priority is to protect, then grow, our national reserves. These are vital to make sure we have the funds we need to fight the battles our members expect to be fought. We have
a five-year plan and have started to implement it. We are always looking to identify
and implement efficiency savings. This doesn’t necessarily mean spending less, but it does mean getting the best value to bring savings across the board. We work alongside colleagues from the National Board and National Council to identify these savings.
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