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Cultural Corner

Cultural and Comms Corner Sean Hannigan , Section UK VP (Comms and Culture) What a year 2021 was for IPA Cultural events and friendship across the section. Thank you all for taking part in events throughout the year, and sending in your fantastic photographs and articles, which have been used across our social media and in Police World (PW). T hroughout the year there have been writing and photography competitions , which have been valuable in obtaining PW material. These will continue into 2022. I am grateful to the Writers SIG for providing fantastic PW articles, stories, and poems during 2021. Without their input, we would have struggled to produce edition 2 of PW, and indeed many pages of the other editions. The successful Zoom effect in 2021 will, I am sure, continue into 2022. In general, the facility has led to more members attending meetings than would otherwise do so, and at a great cost saving to Branches and Regions. But, it is fantastic to meet face to face, and have the joy of practising our friendship once more. Our second Crafty Copper was put on for members, and I am thankful to David Lewis, Doz Hughes, Helen Wood, Paul Ammo, Elaine & Neil Hallam, Steve Bretherton and Andy Gregory, for giving their time and expertise during the event. Crafty Copper three will be in a different format in 2022, as we are hoping to piggyback onto a pre-existing event. If you know of a suitable event, please get in touch. Members Day 2021 was an incredible event, where we had a few IPA firsts. The IPA Archive consisting of all Police Worlds, Out and Abouts, Branch / Regional / NEC and NCM minutes, Newsletters and other miscellaneous documents were scanned, to enable every member to access on-line. The project means that, not only have we saved our IPA History for the future, but we can add to it digitally. Can I please ask that all electronic documents sent to fox Road are also copied to digital@ipa-uk.org as a word document, and as a pdf document so they can be added to the Archive. I am grateful to Phillip and Vivienne Powell, for their three weeks of work in going through the whole archive and sorting it out. Working with them every day, I got a glimpse of how hard they work. PW Professional was launched during G7 2021 , where over 2500 copies, including the Thin Blue Line four-page pull-out were distributed to Police Staff and Officers. The stand-alone 16-page publication took the best professional articles from recent PW magazines, and sought to sell the National and International opportunities available. This is available in both e-format and hard copy. Region 7 had nearly 40 volunteers available for over a week, to ensure the IPA were properly represented at the event, with a resulting recruitment of nearly 50 new members, and raising the profile of the IPA. 2022 will see the production of further PW supplements, including PW Specials/PCSO, PW Staff, PW Re-Start, PW Mental Health and Wellbeing and PW SIGS. These will give a flavour of what we do in the IPA, and can be used to target specific groups you wish to talk to. Please get in touch if you would like to write an article for the supplements. Members Day 2022 may have a different format and locations, so if you are interested in helping with this, please get in touch.

Andy Gregory with his photography portfolio

Neil Hallam talks to Clive Wood about writing

The British Police Symphony Orchestra (BPSO) and Blue Light Orchestra (BLO) are now back in full flow and able to perform again. So please consider supporting them by either joining, or going to their concerts. Please see latest news for details.

I plan to support Cultural events as I did in 2021, so if you have a Cultural event or exchange in 2022, please send me an e mail. There will be the usual competitions to encourage members to write, and photograph for PW and IPA social media. 2022 will see the 4th Writers Seminar at Gimborn on the 10th October, with smaller Cultural UK based weekends on writing, photography, and painting. Thank you for making 2021 a success, and I very much look forward to seeing you somewhere in 2022. Please drop me a line if you have any thoughts.

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POLICE WORLD Vol 67 No.1, 2022