National Chair

Please bring the contents of this Circular to the attention of all POA members.

We must reduce unlock numbers, increase staff-to-prisoner ratios and restore order, discipline and control

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members

HMPPS would have you all believe that they are successfully recruiting thousands of frontline prison officers and we will soon be up to the target staff in post figures for every establishment.

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members

Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all POA members.

Please ensure all POA members have access to this update.

Over the last few months, I have been collating questions from the field in relation to the pensions changes that the Government intend to impose on us in April 2022.

Representing over 30,000 Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers, the POA is the largest UK Union in this sector, able to trace its roots back more than 100 years.