Colleagues,
by the time you read this article it will be Christmas or early January 2014.
I would like
to take the opportunity to wish you a happy and peaceful Christmas, and a
prosperous New Year, despite the continued bite of austerity and reform
reducing our collective spending power!
I thought a
general update at this time of year may be appropriate rather than a missive on
just one topic so here goes;
You may
recall that my last article was about the affects of Stress, depression and
psychological issues on our staff in relation to sickness absence; this remains
a hot topic both here in GMP and amongst the wider Police Service. The Chief
Constable and the Force SLT are alive to these issues and I hope to have some
concrete news about the Force response in time for my next article, but suffice
to say we need to know more about the nature of the problem before we can
effectively tackle it and make a difference to it...More follows soon.
