General Secretary

Watch POA General Secretary Steve Gillan present the Welfare Fund report to Conference 2025

Watch POA General Secretary, Steve Gillan present the Finance Officer's report to Conference 2025

Prison officers’ pay, retirement age and right to strike are among the issues your association will target this year, along with prison maintenance

POA General Secretary Steve Gillan calls on all MPs to stand up for working people by supporting John McDonnell’s amendments to the Workers Rights Bill

The membership will have received notification of the death, on Friday 27 September, of Deputy General Secretary Joe Simpson. This was extremely upsetting for his family and partner, but also for those POA members and employees who had known Joe for many years. Joe Simpson was more than just a Deputy General Secretary to me; he was a man whom I considered to be a long-time friend and I will miss him.

I would like to thank the membership for electing me as General Secretary for a fourth term of office.

Please find attached the Certificate of Result from Civica Election Services.

A giant of a trade unionist, a respected, compassionate, knowledgeable man, and a friend

POA Circular 057/2024 promulgated the timetable for the above election.

I set out in my Gatelodge summer edition 2024 the POA five-year plan as agreed at Annual Conference in May 2024 at Eastbourne.