News

We have published the April edition of our new regular bulletins. Read about it and how to access these regular updates.

Congratulations goes to Luis from Thames Valley Police who has been awarded OK9 dog of the month for March 2022. In this article his handler Catherine tells us all about what he has been up to to deserve this honour.

Since we launched the original Oscar Kilo website back in 2016, our offer has continued to grow and change - so it was important to us to make sure that our online home and access point into the service grew with it.

This week, our OK9 team were honoured to receive an award at the national InsideOut Awards.

The Oscar Kilo 2022 Awards are now closed, we will be announcing the winners in the summer. The 2023 Awards will be open for submissions in the Autumn.

A brand-new app has been launched allowing police forces to record incidents of assault against officers and staff in a consistent way.

Truffles has been awarded the OK9 dog of the month for February 2022. In this article written by her handler Paul, 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 dog of the month.

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.