BEHINDEVERY UNIFORMIS A LIFEWORTHFIGHTING FOR
Police officers face extraordinary pressures, frequently made worse by prolonged displinary processes. Accountability is essential, but it must be timely, fair and humane.
Awareness statistics
Police officers known to have died by suicide between 2022 and 2025.
Recorded officer suicides involving officers subject to misconduct or criminal proceedings
Among police officers between 2022 and 2025.
Known officer suicides in 2025 involved an officer who was under investigation.
Source: Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW), January 2026.
Why It Stops Now
EVERY STATISTICHAS A NAME.
Behind every statistic is a police officer, a colleague, a friend, a partner, a parent, a son or daughter. Police officers are exposed to trauma, pressure and scrutiny throughout their careers. When they struggle, the systems designed to support them must be there when they need them most.
“Our mission is to work with the police family, policing leaders and decision makers to create a fairer, safer policing culture, where investigations are timely and proportionate, mental health is protected, and no officer is left to struggle alone.”
Stories
REAL PEOPLEREAL STORIES
Behind every statistic is a human being. Read the experiences of police officers and their families, and discover the human impact of a system that too often falls short.
information & support when you need it.
Whether you are facing an investigation, struggling with your mental health, supporting a colleague or simply looking for answers, you do not have to navigate it alone. Access practical guidance, useful tools and trusted sources of support.
TO PROTECTTHOSE WHOPROTECT US.
It Stops Now exists to challenge where change is needed, but also to collaborate. We want to work with police forces, national policing bodies, government, staff associations and those with lived experience to identify practical solutions that protect both public confidence and the people who serve.
Four Pillars Of Action.
Raise Awareness
Expose the human impact of trauma, workplace pressures and prolonged or disproportionate investigations.
Support
Provide officers and families with practical guidance, trusted resources and somewhere to turn.
Change
Campaign for investigations that are timely, fair, proportionate and accountable, with officer welfare taken seriously throughout.
Remember
Honour police officers we have lost and ensure the lessons from their lives and deaths are not forgotten.
PaulCooper
I have seen first-hand the human cost when policing loses one of its own. It Stops Now exists because we cannot simply accept that nothing can change.
The People Behind The Mission
A dedicated team with lived experience and a shared passion for change.
Dr Mark Brain
Dr Eleni Fixter
Dr Iain Caldwell
Gary Hayes
Rebecca House
Stephanie C. Davies
Jim Holden
Lee Jones
Dr Susannah Hickie
Lee Broadbent
Darren Ryan
Paul Shearsby
Vicki Tomkins
Michelle Websdale
