Patrick Cairns

Articles by: Patrick Cairns

Lifeline: Police Treatment Centres deliver vital treatment for officers and staff

23rd October 2017

Patrick Cairns, CEO, Police Treatment Centres

Opinion: With the mental health of police officers and staff increasingly under the spotlight, Patrick Cairns, CEO of the Police Treatment Centres, explains the benefits of the PTC's Psychological Wellbeing Programme and what more Chief Officers and Police and Crime Commissioners can do to support the PTC's work.

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Patrick Cairns
Chief Executive Officer
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01423504448
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Patrick Cairns is a former Army Officer who spent 28 years in the Royal Military Police and served on operations in Northern Ireland, the Former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Afghanistan and in a variety of other Command, Staff and Training Appointments around the World. He has a BA Hons in Economics from Warwick University, and an MA in Defence Studies from Kings College London and is a senior External Assessor with the College of Policing. He took up his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer of the Police Treatment Centres in 2014 and is also the CEO of a separate Police Charity called St George’s Police Children Trust which supports the children of police officers who have died or been medically incapacitated.