What we do:
We help build new and healthier futures.
We support thousands of retired and retiring police officers to create the future they want after policing. We make a difference to people’s lives by helping them to feel as mentally and physically well as possible. Together, we work in partnership with you to help you see how valuable your skills are to others, and how, with our training support, you can achieve your personal and professional potential.
We offer you specialist support:
Healthcare
We offer you the support you need to overcome the psychological and physical injuries you may have suffered during your police service. We have teams of experts who work with you to help you achieve the health goals you set for treatment.
Personal and Professional Development
Our award winning Personal Development and Careers Coaches help you to identify the most suitable employment, or active retirement goal for you. They work along side you to help you come to an informed decision about the right choice for you. They do this by encouraging you to consider important factors like:
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your personal circumstances
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your skills, qualifications, abilities and aptitudes developed from all spheres of life
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career, employment, self-employment or active retirement options that match your strengths, interests and personal circumstances
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options that are possible with our training support.
Once you have identified your goal, we offer you a range of targeted training support to help you achieve the lifestyle you aspire to. We do that in two ways. We provide access to over 50 subsidised in-house training and education courses. Clients who require training or education programmes outside our offering may apply for financial training support to part fund a course of study elsewhere.
Who we are:
We are a non-profit making Arms Length Body of the Department of Justice. Our work is fully funded by the Department.
Our people have developed extensive expertise over the last decade. We believe other organisations in the community could benefit from these skills. We established an independent social enterprise called Futures (NI) for this purpose. The income generated from Futures (NI) is reinvested in PRRT to further fund our services to our police clients.
Futures (NI) is dedicated to supporting organisations to develop their people. It offers a variety of specialist services that help organisations to support and develop one of their biggest assets - their people. Services include:
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unique wellbeing at work programmes
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coaching and mentoring interventions
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staff development training
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outplacement and career transition services
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one-to-one psychological therapies
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counselling
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physiotherapy.
Who we serve:
We are here to support police officers planning to retire from service, or those who have already retired from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), or the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC (RUC GC). We will offer support to partners and immediate family members of eligible clients, in specific circumstances. Each service has a slightly different eligibility criteria, so visit the webpage of the service you are interested in to check your eligibility.
Our services are also open on a self funding basis to the following groups:
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Police staff
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Immediate family members of serving or retired police officers
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Part Time Reserve officers
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Serving or retired officers who do not meet the eligibility criteria.
Our Board:
Our Board is responsible for the control and strategic direction of PRRT. It consists of eleven directors, with the Chief Constable being represented at Board meetings by a senior member of his Headquarters staff. As we evolved, we sought to strengthen the Board’s foundations by inviting individuals onto the Board who had particular expertise in addition to those with relevant policing experience. Our directors have brought a broad range of specialisms to the Board including law, human resources, marketing and accounting. Our Board draws on experience from police, commercial and public sector backgrounds. The Directors oversee corporate governance through a series of regular policy meetings.
Our Executive Team:
The Chief Executive is accountable to the Board of Directors, and manages the services with a dedicated Senior Management Team accountable to him. The Team is comprised of:
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Head of Psychological Therapies
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Head of Physiotherapy
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Head of Coaching and Development, with responsibility for driving quality initiatives
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Head of Training and Education
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Head of Finance and Support Services.
Our history:
Following a series of paramilitary ceasefires from 1994, the RUC initiated an internal Review of Policing in the mid 1990s. The Review considered the implications for the Police Service should a politically negotiated peace settlement be achieved in Northern Ireland. One obvious outcome for the Service of policing a more socially and politically stable society would be the requirement for an extensive restructuring of the Service and a revision to its existing model of policing.
A number of individuals drawn from policing and civilian backgrounds were concerned that police officers affected by any potential change should be adequately supported to make a successful transition into an alternative lifestyle. There was recognition that a significant proportion would require help to overcome personal challenges emerging from their police service. Some carried physical and psychological conditions into retirement that hindered their quality of life, whilst others believed that their ability to secure alternative careers and employment would be radically restricted because of the nature and perception of their occupation.
A working group was formed with the express purpose of securing government funding to provide a package of services assessed as necessary for officers and retired officers to achieve their chosen work life balance in civilian life. The group successfully achieved approval from the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in 1998 for a three year funding arrangement to provide:
PRRT was created as a private company limited by guarantee, independent of the police service, employing specialists from the NHS, wider public sector and the third sector to provide these services. We opened our doors in 1999, and have continued to be supported by government as client need continues.
