The Public Safety Foundation

☕️ #OperationCoffeeBreak Announcement 📢 We are pleased to announce that we have donated all the funds raised to the Police Firearms Officers Association (PFOA) charity – who will provide teas and coffees to London’s armed police officers. With a total of £10,710 pledged through the Crowdfunder, after payment processing fees and tax, we are delighted to have passed the entire amount raised – £10,326.49 – to the PFOA to ensure the most efficient and effective delivery of Operation Coffee Break. Eligible members of the PFOA will receive communications in the near future. Any eligible non-members are invited to make contact via their local force co-ordinator. @RoryGeo, Founder of The Public Safety Foundation, said: “Operation Coffee Break was about sending a simple but powerful message to London’s armed police: we support and value you. It also created a precious opportunity for the great British public to voice and show their support.” Oliver Laurence, Managing Director of The Public Safety Foundation, said: “Raising over £10,000 in just a few months demonstrates the strength of public support for our armed officers. We’re proud to be passing these funds to the PFOA, who provide critical support to officers and their families, ensuring that those who protect us are themselves protected.” Mark Williams, Founder and CEO of the Police Firearms Officers Association, said: “On behalf of London's armed police officers can I thank The Public Safety Foundation for your amazing donation. Your Operation Coffee Break campaign was a massive success and sends a clear message of support to those that put their lives on the line for people they have never met.” “Policing as we know is a tough job, and the added responsibility of carrying a firearm, particularly in the capital, brings additional responsibility often with life-changing consequences. Your donation will be distributed to those amazing men and women to have a well earned cuppa!” 🔗 Read more about Operation Coffee Break: publicsafetyfoundation.uk/operation-coff…

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Baroness Helen Newlove - a tireless advocate for victims, communities, and public safety. Her courage and compassion turned personal tragedy into a lifelong fight for victims and safer communities.

☕️ We've got some important news brewing... ⏰ Grounds for excitement this afternoon... #OperationCoffeeBreak

🙌 We've been very pleased to see coverage of this important issue across @Telegraph, @GBNEWS, @theLDNstandard, @TheTimes, and @LBC. ✅ We can confirm that the @H_S_E has received our letter and will respond in full as soon as possible. 🇬🇧 We are determined to help make the UK the safest place to live, work and raise a family - and that includes for the many hard-working and brave police officers we rely on to help keep us safe.

London's @theLDNstandard covering the secret reports the Metropolitan Police disclosed to us about the threats faced by unarmed police officers and the recommendations being made to improve public and officer safety👇 standard.co.uk/news/crime/met…

⏰ IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE We have written to the @H_S_E to raise serious concerns about the officer safety issues revealed by the disclosures we obtained from the @MetPoliceUK following a number of serious stabbings. We urge the HSE to: 1⃣ Conduct an independent investigation into the adequacy of the Met's health and safety arrangements for frontline unarmed officers. 2⃣ Examine whether the repeated failure to implement internal safety recommendations constitutes a breach of the employer's duty of care. 3⃣ Consider issuing enforcement action to ensure that officers are provided with adequate training, equipment and safe systems of work.

🔗 Catch-Up: globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/uk…

Our Founder @RoryGeo joined LBC's @NickFerrariLBC earlier today to discuss the secret police reports that highlight the bravery of frontline officers - but also the need for urgent change. "For too long the frontline has been the bottom of the pile, and it's time for that to change."

'We’re on borrowed time. I think we’re playing Russian roulette every time we avoid this conversation.' Former Met officer Rory Geoghegan calls for an urgent review of unarmed policing, citing a pattern of attacks, cancelled Taser training and ignored warnings.

📰 Telegraph reporting and op-ed: telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/1… 📩 @RoryGeo's substack with further detail and links to the individual reports: rorygeo.substack.com/p/the-near-mis…

Give front-line officers guns, secret Met Police report advised - in wake of officers being stabbed @Telegraph's @CharlesHymas reporting on the near-miss reports we obtained to expose the reality of policing in modern Britain. You can read the story, access the reports and @RoryGeo's original Substack post in the links below 👇

Our Managing Director, Oliver Laurence, unearths more potential misconduct among senior officers and staff at NSY - and calls for an end to the culture of rewarding highly-paid senior officers with discreet exits 👇 dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Our Founder @RoryGeo examines the Met's secret reviews into incidents in which officers have been stabbed. Just one of the shocking conclusions reached by the reviews: “By not training to negate or at least mitigate these dangers the @metpoliceuk has failed in its duty to safeguard its own staff” Read 👇 rorygeo.substack.com/p/the-near-mis…

Sir Mark Rowley, Commissioner of the @metpoliceuk, responds to activists complaining about efforts to make Notting Hill Carnival safer through the use of Live Facial Recognition. 👇

We urge the @metpoliceuk to proceed with Live Facial Recognition at #NottingHillCarnival - as the BBC's @James_Kelly reports the force has received complaints about use of the technology around Notting Hill Carnival.

@AlanRho53241596 @InspGadgetBlogs @Protect_ServeUK We care and so do our generous supporters. Our response 👇 x.com/PublicSafetyFd…

@InspGadgetBlogs @Protect_ServeUK lol you know what? I don’t care. Abit like the subs for the Federation where’s all that gone? Nice places to visit. Seems to be it’s a bit like road tax the roads should be paved in gold the amount of road tax you pay guess what? Like fart in the wind.

Oliver Lawtence has deleted his own account and that of @protect_serveUK after raising over £10,000 for #operationcoffeebreak Anyone know: 1. What's occurring? 2. Where is the money?

@SingleTicket371 For completeness, our response 👇 x.com/PublicSafetyFd…

We are disappointed to see you post this when you could have easily reached out to us directly to ask or raise any concerns prior to casting unfounded aspersions. We continue to be in contact with the forces covering London's armed response officers. Our Director's choice to leave X is a personal one due to a range of professional projects he is working on - and so is entirely unrelated to Operation Coffee Break. We remain on X at this account and our website remains live publicsafetyfoundation.uk, from which we will provide further updates on #OperationCoffeeBreak. The funds generously provided by supporters remain with us pending finalisation of discussions with the forces concerned.

🚨Our Director, Oliver Laurence, joined @Nanaakua1 to discuss how the government's failure to tackle illegal immigration is driving people onto the streets in Epping and beyond - and putting policing under pressure. 👇

🛟 From the knives and dangerous criminals they take off the street, through to the life-saving first-aid and specialist response they provide, Londoners would be less safe without a confident and proactive @MetTaskforce Territorial Support Group (TSG). 🪦 We know that #stopandsearch and the TSG saves lives. Senior officers, politicians and policymakers need to recognise that many of those who consistently oppose stop and search and/or the TSG are demonstrating their commitment to a political ideology, not to public safety. 🏆 We hope that the @MetPoliceUK will respond with a well-evidenced demonstration of the TSG's contribution to public safety, commitment to professionalism and the challenges that their police officers face. #BackingThePolice #AssemblyPolice