This month the long-awaited second edition of the International Police Association World Games took place in Montenegro. Trust member Brian Collins took part in the games and is here to share his experience. The second International Police Association World Games were held in the picture postcard coastal town of Bar, Montenegro during the second week…
Monday April 25, 2022, a group of Derbyshire Sports club members convene at Hamble Point marina in Hampshire for a few days sailing training. The crews assemble and set out for a few days of hard sailing, practising, and developing sailing skills. I started sailing with the Sports club in 1995 and the opportunity provided…
Derbyshire Benevolent Trust exists to serve its members to the best of its ability. Within that remit, we are today supporting Victoria Tremayne, a DBT member who is raising funds for her husband Lance currently fighting a long-term illness. In the summer of 2018, Lance lost the use of his legs during a family holiday.…
Bumps, bruises and creaky joints come as part and parcel within the Policing community. Whether it’s a result of street-patrol or repetitive strain injury stemming from office-based positions, we could all do with a little TLC. Such was the case for Rick Alto, head of Organisational Learning Culture and Ethics. Suffering with an injured shoulder…
After a 30-year policing career, retirement saw Ian Barker tackle the obligatory DIY jobs which had been mounting up at home. Keen to stay busy, he then started doing odd jobs for others, before setting up his own wrought ironworks business which he now runs full-time. The former murder detective retired from the Force in…
Almost 20 years ago, Chris Carpenter was smoking more than 20 cigarettes a day but then, after numerous failed attempts to quit, simply and easily stopped. His secret? Hypnotherapy. “I was a proper smoker, 20 plus a day but it was really easy to give up once I had undergone hypnotherapy, which I tried as…
A Derbyshire sergeant fulfilled a long-held ambition when he made it onto the famous Centre Court at Wimbledon this summer. But Sergeant Damien Shannon, assessment team leader in EMCHRS, wasn’t playing or even just watching tennis greats in action, he was actually there as a line umpire, having been delighted at being chosen to help…
Having worked as a mechanic in the coal mines prior to joining the police, John Whitworth witnessed many old miners, broken by their hard-working lives, dying several months after retirement. So he vowed to live life to the max when he retired and to keep himself mentally and physically fit to ensure he could. John,…
Proceeds of a ‘dress to impress evening’ at the Casa Hotel in Chesterfield next month will help fund life-saving treatment for Derbyshire officer Stuart Parker who was diagnosed with a Grade 4 GBM brain tumour in December, just six months before he was due to retire. The evening – which is being called ‘A Wish…
For the second year running, Derbyshire’s Malc Shakespeare and Stu Kershaw are joining colleagues from the Met to cycle from the Police Memorial at Horseguards Parade in London to the National Memorial Arboretum in Alrewas, Staffordshire as part of the Police Unity Tour (PUT). And this year, they will be joined by the Chief Constable,…