Videos

An undercover journalist, from The Times, was hired at one of the country’s most dangerous jails and was then able to walk inside and interact with prisoners without security searches.

Watch the address by Gabriel Keaveny, Deputy General Secretary, POA Ireland.

Watch Mick Whelan, General Secretary ASLEF address Conference

Watch the Fraternal Address from Bryan Goodman, Honorary Life Member

Watch Conference 2025 address by Jennifer Rademaker, Non Executive Director at the Ministry of Justice

Watch POA General Secretary Steve Gillan present the Welfare Fund report to Conference 2025

Watch POA General Secretary, Steve Gillan present the Finance Officer's report to Conference 2025

Watch POA National Chair, Mark Fairhurst’s opening address to Conference 2025

Watch POA National Chair Mark Fairhurst on BBC Breakfast after attack on prison officer by Southport killer Axel Rudakubana

POA National Chair Mark Fairhurst provides update following meeting with the Secretary of State for Justice, Shabana Mahmood

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.