Pay & Pensions

On 1st May, the Association hosted a pension seminar at The Chesford Grange Hotel, Warwickshire, for those members who will not be covered by ‘full protection’ when the reforms to the police pension schemes come into effect in April 2015. Approximately 170 of our current membership come with this gr...

Tom Winsor proposed in his Review of Pay and Conditions of Service for Police Officers and Staff that the Police Negotiating Board (PNB) should be replaced with a Pay Review Body for police pay (up to and including the rank of Chief Superintendent) by 2014. The Home Secretary has decided to implemen...

At the conclusion of the PNB meeting held on 11th April 2013, which was attended by the National Secretary Graham Cassidy and the National Deputy Secretary Tim Jackson the Chair of the Staff Side Steve Williams (Chair of the PFEW) made the following announcement on behalf of the Staff Side: “A...

Following a consultation process, the Policing Minister has announced that police pension contributions will be increased with effect from April 2013. This announcement is not entirely unexpected. For our members, this will mean a further increase of 1.5% taking our total contributions to 14%. This ...

In 2011, the Home Secretary consulted on an increase in police officer pension contributions over a three year period.  In April 2012, the first of these increases was introduced which resulted in police officer contributions for members of the PPS (‘1987’ Scheme) rising from 11% to 12.5% for those ...