The Police Superintendents’ Association (PS) has published its Annual Report and Impact Report for 2024/25.
The reports outline how the association has worked towards its strategic priorities and outlines how it will direct its activity over the next three years.
Over the last 12 months, it has worked to redefine its strategic priorities, including its vision and mission, to ensure all association efforts are aligned to the most pressing matters impacting on superintendents and their teams.
In his annual report foreword, President Nick Smart says:
“Once again, the past year has placed policing in the spotlight in a number of ways, highlighting the critical need for our service, alongside the many challenges we face in terms of funding, infrastructure and health and wellbeing.
“Throughout this, our members – the senior operational leaders in policing – have been at the helm of operational commands, strategic change, efficiency saving drives, community partnerships and major crisis scenarios.
“With their teams, they have sought to protect communities, build on public safety and deliver policing to be proud of. As their association, it is our role and responsibility to protect their best interests and to do all we can to ensure that the policing workplace is one that is fair, inclusive and supportive, in recognition of the incredible work that police officers deliver every day.
“I am pleased and proud to say that we have led positive change on their behalf and that we continue to act as a trusted and influential voice on the part of policing’s senior leaders. You will read within this report the many examples that demonstrate this, alongside detail of our ongoing efforts to influence where change is so clearly required.
“Once again, one of the critical areas for us remains the health and wellbeing of our members and their colleagues. We are continuing to tell a story of decline and concern when it comes to the psychological health of superintendents, yet we see little national change in the infrastructure in place to support them. This will remain a key priority in the coming year.”