• Staff cuts threat will damage policing 7 Jan 2010
• Staff cuts threat will damage policing 18 Nov 2009
• Civilianisation of Police in Scotland Final Report March 2009 (pdf)
  UNISON and 'Stewart Research' report recommends that Police Community Support Officers (or equivalent) be considered and adopted in Scotland.
• Police Civilianisation in Scotland Briefing
• Civilianisation in Police Forces - MSP Briefing from UNISON (pdf)
• UNISON Response to inquiry into community policing in Scotland (May 2008)
• 16 April 08: Staff should be given wider role to properly resource police service
• 8 April 2008: UNISON welcomes rejection of police custody privatisation
  
• Police staff pay deal agreed
• Click here for the 2007 Pay Claim in full
• Supporting Police, Protecting Communities Response 2005
  

It is police support staff who make the police tick. UNISON's 27,000 members work in everything from admin and front desk roles to forensics and photography.

Our members work in every police force in the UK, except Northern Ireland and the Met.

How we organise

In UNISON you are always a member of a branch that brings you together with other employees who do similar kinds of work or face common issues in their workplaces. Members elect workplace stewards and safety reps and vote for branch officers. Every branch is supported by its nearest UNISON regional centre, where staff work with elected lay members.

Each UNISON branch elects its own reps to attend the UNISON National Delegate conference and vote on behalf of all local branch members.

In Scotland UNISON police members are covered by the Police Support Staff Council (PSSC) Scotland. The PSSC sets national terms and conditions for police support staff. The Staff Side Secretary is Peter Veldon, who can be contacted at the UNISON Edinburgh Office - p.veldon@unison.co.uk

The following staff groups also meet together under the UNISON umbrella: National Crime Squad members/National Criminal Intelligence Service members Forensic Group of UNISON members Service Delivery Working Party - five members of the police service group executive Traffic Warden members group.