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All the Police news and updates are now on the UNISON Police
Staff Scotland Branch's own website at http://unisonpolicestaffscotland.org/
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Submission to Scottish Police Authority on the
draft Strategic Police Plan Feb 2013 - pdf
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Campaign against police staff job cuts - for a balanced modern police team
UNISON is campaigning to stop thousands of police staff jobs being cut due to police force reform in Scotland in the immediate future.
Recent press releases:
26 Sep: UNISON calls for action to avert 3,000 police staff job cuts
4 Sep: Police numbers increased by taking uniformed officers off the street
31 Aug: New Police Authority chair should put force needs ahead of political targets - UNISON
26 June: A police service
based on cost can never deliver the service Scotland needs
- UNISON response to the Police & Fire Reform Bill – stage
3 debate
10 May UNISON
calls for a balanced, modern police team ahead of parliamentary
debate on national forces
2 May If police targets are maintained, large scale civilian
cuts will follow UNISON response to stage 1 report on Police
and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill
14 March: Treasury confirms VAT bill for single fire and police
services - UNISON
12 March: Justice
Secretary meets UNISON as campaign for balanced modern police
force launched
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March: Police staff secure victory in fight over pay cuts of up
to 35%
28 Feb: UNISON warns
staff jobs cuts could lead to scandal of 2,000 police officers
taken off street
22 Feb: UNISON urges councillors
to end compulsory redundancy threat to police staff in Strathclyde
21 Feb: UNISON raises concern
over threat to 2,000 police staff jobs at Scottish Parliament
26 Jan: Threat to 2000
Scottish police staff jobs is criminal
17 Jan: Cuts to police
staff could have damaging effect on law and order - UNISON
Feb 2012: Briefing on Police and Fire Reform (pdf)
The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament will create a new unitary police force (and a unitary fire service) in Scotland. Scottish government savings combined with a pledge to keep a specified number of police officers - 17,234 - have led police chiefs to propose massive cuts to support staff jobs. Over a thousand jobs have been lost in 2010-2011. Two thousand or more additional jobs are at risk. Meanwhile police officers are doing police staff jobs. UNISON believes in a balanced and modern police service with police staff doing the jobs for which they are trained.
UNISON Scotland Evidence to Scottish Parliament Committees on the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Bill published in Feb 2012:
Other background documents:
POLICE SUPPORT STAFF in UNISON
It is police support staff who make the police
tick. With over 50,000 police and justice members, UNISON is one of the largest unions in the justice system. Our members work in everything from admin and
front desk roles to forensics and photography.
Our members work in every police force in the UK,
except Northern Ireland and the Met.
How we organise
In UNISON you are always a member of a branch that
brings you together with other employees who do similar kinds
of work or face common issues in their workplaces. Members elect
workplace stewards and safety reps and vote for branch officers.
Every branch is supported by its nearest UNISON regional centre,
where staff work with elected lay members.
Each UNISON branch elects its own reps to attend
the UNISON National Delegate conference and vote on behalf of
all local branch members.
In Scotland UNISON police members are covered by
the Police Support Staff Council (PSSC) Scotland. The PSSC sets
national terms and conditions for police support staff. The Staff
Side Secretary is Peter Veldon, who can be contacted at the UNISON
Edinburgh Office - p.veldon@unison.co.uk
The following staff groups also meet together under
the UNISON umbrella: National Crime Squad members/National Criminal
Intelligence Service members Forensic Group of UNISON members
Service Delivery Working Party - five members of the police service
group executive Traffic Warden members group.
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