Press Eye - Northern Ireland - 25th September 2022 National Police Memorial Day - Waterfront Hall - Belfast - 25th September 2022. Home Secretary Suella Braverman, National Police Memorial Day is an annual remembrance event to honour all officers killed in the line of duty since modern policing began. Officials will meet representatives from police forces throughout the United Kingdom and overseas before processing into the Auditorium lead by the Standard bearer and the pipes and drums of Northern Ireland. Following the service, officials will meet bereaved families and police charities at a reception, hosted by the Reverend Canon David Wilbraham MBE, Co-ordinator of the National Police Memorial Day. HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, became Patron of National Police Memorial Day in 2006 and last attended the annual memorial service in Glasgow in 2019. There will be no royal attendance this year due to the period of mourning. There will be over a thousand people attending the service. Background (For publication or broadcast): Since 1792 police officers have been giving their lives to protect others and make our communities a safer place to live and work. Yet this sacrifice and amazing dedication to duty remained largely unrecognised until as late as 2004. Plans for National Police Memorial Day were first initiated in May 2001 by now retired Kent Police Inspector Joe Holness QPM OBE, following the brutal death of his colleague Constable Jon Odell, at Margate, in December 2000. National Police Memorial Day is held each year on the nearest Sunday to Saint Michaels Day, the patron saint of police. Support from across the service and from police related charitable causes for the Memorial Day has been widespread, and it is recognised by Government as an official national day. National Police Memorial Day services have been held all over the United Kingdom to reflect the national contribution made by the police. The inaugural service was held at St Pauls Cathedral on Sunday 3 October 2004.
A TORY row exploded over plans to increase foreign workers to plug staffing shortages.
Cabinet ministers locked horns over immigration rules as they discussed expanding the seasonal worker scheme.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman is understood to have pushed back on using migrants to solve workforce problems
Home Secretary Suella Braverman and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch are understood to have pushed back on using migrants to solve the problem.
And hardline Conservative MPs baulked at the suggestion. Tory MP Lee Anderson told HOAR: “Relaxing immigration rules is the easy option.
“We need to get people back to work and to fill the void.
“Where will we be in 50 years time if we keep allowing immigration to rise year on year?”
A source involved in the discussions yesterday said that ministers are currently trying to figure out how many foreign workers would come in under the arrangement.
Another Whitehall insider said the visa scheme could be relaxed on a sector-by-sector basis where there are shortages.
“Campaigners said moves to change the rules “beggar belief”.
Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “The lessons of Labour’s mistakes of 20 years ago of opening up to cheaper migrant workers have been forgotten.”
He wants Cabinet ministers to “stick to their guns in resisting this dreadful idea”.
