special constables at work in uniform

Regional Team

The Special Constabulary Regional Team, works with ACPO regional leads and forces to raise the profile of the special constabulary with a view to increasing the number of specials.

January 2010

Following on from the National ESP conference held in October, workshops have been scheduled to provide further information to colleagues in force:

  • 12 January - North West Region, Cheshire Police HQ
  • 14 January - West Midlands Region, NPIA Ryton
  • 19 January - South West Region, Wiltshire Police HQ, Melksham
  • 20 January - South East Region, NPIA Bramshill
  • 27 January - East Midlands Region, Leicestershire Police HQ
  • 28 January - Eastern Region, Go-East Office, Cambridgeshire

November 2009

This year's Arthur Ellis Memorial Trophy and Harry King Award ceremony was hosted by South Wales police in Cardiff in November.  Teams from the South West region and Wales were eligible for the competition and a strong set of nominations was put forward.

The Arthur Ellis trophy went to Devon and Cornwall. The winning team of Specials from Cullompton works closely with the neighbourhood team to ensure policing priorities identified by the local Partners and Communities Together (PACT) scheme are tackled effectively. This team of Specials has dedicated 4,623 hours of duty time in the past year to focusing on anti-social behaviour, speeding, and alcohol-related problems.

The winner of the Harry King award, given to an individual Special for their outstanding contribution to policing, was ADO Steve Lindsay from Gloucestershire. Steve leads a team of 12 Specials in Dursley and was judged to have shown outstanding commitment to the Special Constabulary - personally completing over 600 hours duty each year.

He is fully involved in neighbourhood policing and has set up operations to tackle specific community concerns.

October 2009

The NPIA's Employer Supported Policing (ESP) scheme is set to be rolled out across all 43 police forces in England and Wales after a high profile launch at the ESP national conference in October in Leicestershire with roadshows to follow in January 2010.