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Culture Corner

Another chance to read our Founder’s book Kevin Troop who has attended the last two Member Days at Fox Road has some very exciting News to share with our members.

K evin said “I am very pleased to announce I have agreed to have the book about my Father’s own IPA Journey Service Through Friendship available in an e book format. There will also be a re run of the original book, but these will be limited to 200 during the first book run. I met Sean Hannigan in Lincoln 2014 where we shared a car ride back to Fox Road and we have become friends over the intervening years. I am keen to support this venture and look forward to meeting you all at Fox Road in 2018” Further details will be announced in the next Police World edition and for further information please e mail vphannigan@ipa-uk.org or call Sean on 07828 261174

Member Journey and the IPA Oral History Project

Sean Hannigan wanted to give an update on The Member Journey linked with the IPA Oral History Project and work of the National Archivist Phillip Powell to pull together the threads of what makes the IPA what is and answer the famous JFK question put into Section UK IPA terms…..Ask not what Your IPA can do for you, but what You can do for Your IPA. T he Oral History Project is developing at pace. Through the professional skills of Brian Kennedy nearly 20 IPA members

have been video recorded and had their own IPA history recorded. Regions have also made audio recordings of members using pocket memos which are still available for this use. Coupled with this a mobile scanning unit has been purchased to enable scanning onto a stand-alone computer with a 3-terra- byte capacity of IPA documents, photographs and even IPA memorabilia. The project will eventually culminate in a data base of audio, audio-visual and documents which will be accessible by any IPA member. However much more work will need to be completed before the data base can go live and the time frame for this is about 3 years. If you wish to avail of the mobile unit or more importantly help with scanning documents from the IPA Archive at Fox Road, then please contact Sean on vphannigan@ipa-uk.org or give him a wee call on 07828 261174

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POLICE WORLD Vol 63 No. 3, 2018