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Congratulations goes to Truffles who is an OK9 top dog. In this article written by her handler Paul Van Veen from West Midlands Police, you can read about how Truffles made a difference to a young girl with selective mutism and how this has impacted her family life. 

Find out how pieces of academic work are helping the study of wellbeing in policing.

A consensus statement setting out the police service’s commitment to suicide prevention will be published on Tuesday, 22 February 2022.

We have teamed up with Nuffield Health to bring their online COVID-19 rehabilitation programme to policing.

After our wellbeing dogs and their handlers have been on visits we tend to get lots of feedback about the work they do and it is always overwhelmingly positive. Here is a collection of feedback about wellbeing dog Darcy and her handler PC Cathy Veale from Devon, Cornwall and Dorset Police Alliance, they are so great we decided she should be our first OK9 top dog.

We have teamed up with The Sleep Scientist Dr Sophie Bostock, to launch a brand new 'Better Sleep Toolkit' aimed at supporting police officers, staff and volunteers with fatigue and sleep problems, read about it, and find out how to access it.

We have teamed up with experts at the University of Surrey to launch a new sleep disorders education and screening programme aimed at reducing fatigue and sleep problems in police officers and staff.

In this blog, Catherine Pritchard from Cheshire Constabulary talks about her breast cancer diagnosis and how she is supporting others.

We are delighted to be holding a brand new, second series of 'Better Sleep' webinars hosted once again by The Sleep Scientist Dr Sophie Bostock.

On Tuesday, 25 November 2021, the Royal Foundation launched the Blue Light Together programme and Mental Health at Work Commitment at their Emergency Services Mental Health Symposium, hosted by HRH The Duke of Cambridge.

On the 10th of November 2021, the fantastic @WeCops team allowed us the opportunity to host a chat covering Operation Hampshire.

More than 36,000 police officers, staff, and volunteers across UK policing have given their views on how the service can best support them by filling in the national police wellbeing survey.