A pair of young PCs who “went above and beyond what any human should have to do”, saving the life of a woman suffering catastrophic bleeding after her partner stabbed her, have been nominated for the National Police Bravery Awards 2025.
Today, on International Workers’ Day, Leicestershire Police Federation is backing the national launch of Copped Enough: What the Police Take Home is Criminal — a hard-hitting campaign exposing the crisis in policing that is endangering officers' lives and putting public safety at risk.
A new hard-hitting campaign has been launched today (Monday 24 March) aiming to reduce the escalating number of police officers who take their own lives - and to better support cops who are attending suicides.
A new survey which reveals a quarter of Officers with 1-5 years’ service are contemplating leaving policing due to financial stress and workplace pressures comes as no surprise.
It is vitally important for officers to decompress and take a short break on busy shifts, when they have often dealt with traumatic incidents.
Andy Spence, Chair of Leicestershire Police Federation, said: "This incident is horrifying. Police officers were going about their normal day to day job, speaking with someone who had falsely told them that the dog was secured when it wasn’t.
A woman with multiple convictions for violence against police officers has again escaped a custodial sentence for yet another attack.
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