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The Police Treatment Centre
The Police Treatment Centres is a registered charity supported by voluntary donations from serving police officers primarily in the northern forces of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but also from British Transport Police, the Civil Nuclear Constabulary and the Ministry of Defence Police. Officers currently make a donation from their pay of £1.21 per week (1 September 2010).
The charity provides two Treatment Centres where serving and retired police officers can receive rest, recuperation and treatment following an illness or injury with the aim of assisting their return to better health. The Centres are St Andrews, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and Castlebrae in Auchterarder, Perthshire.
Almost 4000 serving and retired officers attend the Treatment Centres each year and most receive intensive physiotherapy. Others seek support with stress-related conditions and some attend for reasons of respite or to recuperate following an illness or operation.
The Patron of the Police Treatment Centres is HRH The Duke of York and our President is the Hon. Simon Howard of Castle Howard in York. The charity has a Board of Trustees providing strategic guidance while the management of operations is overseen by the Chief Executive of the Police Treatment Centres, Michael Baxter, QPM.
Then trustees from 2011 are:
| Colin Audley | Police Service of Northern Ireland |
| Paul Barker | Police Federation of England and Wales |
| Mark Botham | Police Federation of England and Wales |
| Sue Cross | Association of Chief Police Officers |
| Alan Cupples | Police Federation of Northern Ireland |
| Justine Curran | Association of Chief Police Officers |
| Nigel Day | Police Federation of England and Wales |
| Gordon Dixon | Scottish Police Federation |
| Stuart Hyde | Association of Chief Police Officers |
| Michael Kennedy | Scottish Police Federation |
| Alan Lees | Superintendents Association of England and Wales |
| Mark Lindsay | Police Federation of Northern Ireland |
| Garry Morton | Superintendents Association of Northern Ireland |
| Glyn Payne | Superintendents Association of England and Wales |
| Ian Poultney | Police Federation of England and Wales |
| Raymond Pratt* | Scottish Police Federation |
| Neil Rhodes | Association of Chief Police Officers |
| Jon Stoddart | Association of Chief Police Officers |
| Mohammed Sultan | Police Federation of England and Wales |
| Malcolm Taylor | Police Federation of England and Wales |
| David Whatton | Association of Chief Police Officers |
* Raymond Pratt is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees
For more information including the Admissions policy and Frequently Asked Questions please visit www.thepolicetreatmentcentres.org
