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Welcome to the Police Treatment Centres
The Police Treatment Centres is a registered
charity which provides treatment and support, including intensive, police-specific, physiotherapy and rehabilitation, for injured and ill police officers and retired officers.
Police officers are very often the first responders to serious accidents and dangerous incidents, dealing with death, distress and aggression. They have to see and hear things that other members of the public would simply not be able to cope with (- Martis Media/Police Oracle). The Police Treatment Centres provide police specific treatment for any on or off duty injury. Whether it is a physical injury, or stress, depression, anxiety related, treatment is provided to help them recover and aid their return back to work.
Almost 4000 serving and retired officers attend one of the two Treatment Centres each year at either St Andrews, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, or Castlebrae in Auchterarder, Perthshire.
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Our Autumn 2022 Newsletter is out now! Find out the latest from the PTC.
The Police Treatment Centres are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty The Queen.
We would like to offer our sincere condolences to the Royal Family.
Our thoughts are with them at this terribly sad time.
May Her Majesty rest in peace.
Both Centres will remain open on Monday 19th September ​and continue to offer treatment to those Patients in residence.
The Police Treatment Centres are Honoured and Pleased to Welcome HRH The Princess Royal, as our new Patron.
The new 'PC John Kent Wing' was today officially opened at The Police Treatment Centre, Harrogate by President of the National Black Police Association, Andy George.
Jason takes on the London Marathon 2023
The 🏒 Peelers Ice Hockey Team 🏒 have laid down the gauntlet to the South Wales Police Enforcers to play in a charity memorial game in memory of PC Nicola Hughes & PC Fiona Bone.
Wayne Thomas & 5 other retired Merseyside Police Officers (Pete Hargreaves, Roger Black, Mark WIZZER Wilson, Kev McGinty and Pete Cawthorne) recently undertook the Coast to Coast Cycle Challenge.
Steve Payne, a Retired Officer from the Nottinghamshire Police Force, recently spent a week with us at our facility in Harrogate. Read his experience of the Centres, not only then but as a serving Officer as well.
Matthew Contreras, an Officer with the West Yorkshire Police Force for over 17 years recently required the class leading treatment on offer at the Police Treatment Centres. Here he puts into words his own experiences surrounding his stay. Experiences that are shared by so many Officers up and down our Constituent Forces throughout the UK. Read his story here.
Neil Gibson, a Police Officer with the Humberside Constabulary recently made two visits to the Police Treatment Centres in Harrogate for treatment following surgery on a serious knee injury. Read his experience of the Police Treatment Centres here.
Paul Gray, a South Yorkshire PCSO who has been with the Force for 22 years recently spent two weeks at the Police Treatment Centres in Harrogate. He was kind enough to share his experience with us, read it here.
Alison Webster, a Police Officer in the Merseyside Constabulary, recently spent two weeks at the Police Treatment Centres in Harrogate where she too advantage of the class leading Physiotherapy treatment on offer. Read Alison's Sory here.
Malcolm Graham, Deputy Chief Constable at Police Scotland, recently spent time at our Castlebrae Police Treatment Centre in Perthshire. Malcolm took some time to thank the Police Treatment Centres and the entire team for their amazing work, speaking of his firsthand experience at the Police Treatment Centres.
Steve Palmer recently spent two weeks at the Police Treatment Centres at St Andrews in Harrogate. Steve was kind enough to share some touching and hugely appreciated words of thanks to the staff at the PTC.
After suffering a seizure whilst on a run, Louise James has been through an unimaginably tough period over the past year. Read here how Louise has benefitted from the Police Treatment Centre's Remote Virtual Physiotherapy provision and how it has helped her regain some confidence and begin the road to recovery.
All services first class. You don't get this anywhere else !!
What an amazing stay, I can't thank you all enough. All staff, without exception, have been polite, kind and helpful…..an oasis of calm….!!...and the craft room - I love it !! I feel humanised again.
The staff are extremely professional and clearly happy to help. There is a feel good factor here that I wish existed in other walks of life! Highly respectable and a no problem, can do attitude by all the staff. Please don't change this fantastic set-up!
A superb facility only bettered by the staff !! Super friendly, helpful and happy, thank you .
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