Welcome to a daily digest of police news stories that show policing in a positive light. This page will change regularly to bring you many of the Good News stories involving Constables in London that might be missed by traditional media sources.

27.10.2008 - Press Statment regarding Firearms Officers conferring
Peter Smyth Chairman Metropolitan Police Federation --------------------------------------------- ACPO’s decision to inhibit firearms officers from conferring after an incident is perverse, ill-judged and, incredibly for senior police officers, not evidence-based.

17.10.2008 - Police Pay Award
Following discussions that have taken place between Staff Side of PNB, JCC, JBBs, the Official Side and Home Office over the last week we can today announce that a three-year settlement for police officer pay has been secured.

06.10.2008 - Press Statement Re MPA inquiry into alleged racism
The Metropolitan Police Federation is surprised to learn from the media that there is to be an inquiry by the MPA into alleged racism in the Met.

02.10.2008 - Press Statment on the resignation of the Commissioner
“We respect the Commissioner for taking what must have been a painful decision.

16.09.2008 - A statement from the Metropolitan Police Federation Chairman, Peter Smyth,
In 1978, the then Labour government commissioned Lord Edmund-Davies to look into police pay.

12.09.2008 - Police Federation accuses Home Secretary of being petty
The Police Federation of England and Wales is accusing the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, of being petty and vindictive in the underhanded manner in which she launched the consultation of a Pay Review Body for police officers’ pay.