Single Non-Emergency Number

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Conference
Police Staff Service Group Conference 2006
Date
14 July 2006
Decision
Carried

Conference is aware of the imminent implementation of the Single Non-Emergency Number, by 2008.

Conference should be aware that the creation of this number could have a detrimental effect on police staff working in Police Control Rooms, or Police Call Handing Centres.

With all public calls, except emergency calls being fed into a call-handling centre involving other agencies. There is a strong possibly this could impact on the number of police staff roles required for police call handling/control rooms.

We therefore instruct the Service Group Executive to:

1)ensure that the terms and conditions, roles and responsibilities of our members are maintained and their jobs are protected.