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On & Off Duty

On & Off Duty is a CPA magazine that has been in publication since CPA was founded in 1883.
Please see our News page for the latest and previous editions.

Pray 4 Your Police (P4YP)

Part of our vision is to see ‘an active and growing Branch of CPA in every Police Service in the UK’. Let us pray particularly where Forces have no active Branch, indicated in red and especially where there is no single point of contact (SPOC). Print, and pray every day!
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Reports

I am pleased to say, 2022 has brought several successes to CPA. Our vision for the coming period is to Support, Empower and Encourage Christians in the Police Service (SEE) as I announced at the Leaders Conference in November 2021. This included the delivery of…
Brian McCarthy
Executive Director

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This document provides a step by step guide to help faith communities to engage with the police and to focus their passion for helping others in such a way to support the police and to find long term solutions. It is for neighbourhood police teams who feel they are fighting these challenges alone and struggling to find solutions and for faith groups who want to help but don’t know where to start.

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It was always the practice, in the early days of the Christian Police Association to hold the annual gathering at Exeter Hall in the Strand, London. Many well-known speakers were invited to participate, among them the famous Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon. He spoke to CPA on more than one occasion but his first visit was in 1890 when he gave as his title ‘Why should a policeman be a true Christian?’ As the Gurney family business was shorthand writing, it is hardly surprising that such talks were fully recorded and many appeared in the CPA magazine. The message that follows appeared in the On and Off Duty magazine for June 1890.

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