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Current Developments
in
UK Policing,
a female Sergeant's perspective
Sergeant Laura Heslop PGCE,MSc,BSc(Hons)
West Yorkshire Police, UK
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Overview
• Introduction
• UK Policing – structure and governance
• Developments
• Potential impact on women
• Questions
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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United Kingdom of Great Britain England and Wales and Northern Ireland (43 police forces)
Single police force NI and Scotland
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Structure of UK Policing
• Single police force in both Northern Ireland and Scotland
• 43 Territorial police forces in England and Wales
• Small number of specialist and national policing agencies
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UK Policing
• Police officers 134,100 26% women• Constables 106,780 29%• Sergeant 22,359 18%• Inspectors 6,833 17%• Chief Inspectors 1,949 15%• Superintendant 997 15%• Chief Supt 445 11%• ACPO 223 17%• Chief Constables 43 14%
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Developments
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Developments
• Elected Police and Crime Commissioners • Police Reform• Direct entry• Pre-employment training / education• Professionalization• Privatization• The call to routinely arm the police
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Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, unarmed police officers killed in Manchester England (17 Sept
2012)
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Firearms
• 6,653 authorised firearms officers• 13,346 armed response operations • Approx 7000 firearms offences• 349 serious injury• 39 fatal (648 total homicides)• Trend is downwards - 13% lower than
previous 12 months• 3 incidents
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Firearms: continued
• Since 1945 – 256 police officers shot and killed and 21 stabbed to death.
• None of these happened in Wales.
• 4 shot and 2 stabbed in Scotland.
• 51 shot and 19 stabbed in England.
• 201 shot in Northern Ireland.
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Gun ownership and violence in U.S.A
• In 2004 36.5% of Americans reported having a gun in their home
• Majority of gun-related deaths suicides: (17,352 in 2007)
• In 2009 15,241 homicides in US
• 9,146 deaths were by firearms
• Homicides per capita are 48 times greater than in the UK
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