Welcome to the United Kingdom & Ireland Conference
We would like to welcome you to the Blue Knights® Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club, United Kingdom and Ireland Conference website.
Please feel free to have a look around the site and if you would like further information about the Blue Knights®, then you will need to find out about the history of the club. If you are thinking of joining us then you need the membership page, which will provide the full details of qualifications and requirements.
The Blue Knights®
The Blue Knights® is a motorcycle club with members from all positions in life but with one thing in common; all members either are or have in the past served in the law enforcement community. We now have, or at one time held a power of arrest, as opposed to a power of detention, which is a proviso for joining the club.
Those wishing to join us have, or at one time in the past had a statutory power of arrest as part of their employment with a governmental law enforcement agency and as long as they fulfil the other requirements of membership, they will be made very welcome indeed.
For more information on all the requirements to join the Blue Knights® have a look at the membership page.
The UKIC
We are one of 11 conferences that go to make up the Blue Knights® International organisation. In our conference we have a total of 20 chapters, the latest two of which were formed in November 2008 and we currently have a membership in the region of 620 scattered throughout the UK and Ireland.
Chapters in the UK were originally a part of the now defunct Atlantic Regional Conference, but in November 2002 the UK chapter Presidents formed the United Kingdom Conference. Later, with the formation of Ireland I, the UKC became the United Kingdom and Ireland Conference.
The current chapter presidents administer the conference with an elected board of officers consisting of current and past presidents who oversee the running of the conference on a day-to-day basis.
In the UK and Ireland, we have members who are serving as well retired police officers, customs officers, prison officers and members of the police services in all three branches of the armed forces, among others.
Wherever possible, the Blue Knights® throughout the world actively support charities in their areas. Here in the UKIC all the chapters support the charity, Care Of Police Survivors raising money each year to help the charity continue with its important work.
The Chapters
As already mentioned, we have 20 chapters in the UKIC covering the whole of the British Isles, including the Channel Islands as well as the island of Ireland. The chapters are listed below and you will see where each chapter covers. If you want to know more about any particular chapter, just click its link to see an overview where you will also find a link to its website. There is also contact details included in the overview should you wish to contact that chapter.
Or to have a look at them all at once just head on over to the chapters page of the site.
In England the chapters are:
- England I ~ North West of England.
- England II ~ South East of the England.
- England III ~ North East of England mainly Cleveland, Durham and Northumbria.
- England IV ~ South of England including the Channel Islands.
- England V ~ The Greater Manchester area and the Western Pennines.
- England VI ~ Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and the East Midlands.
- England VIII ~ Leicestershire and Rutland.
- England IX ~ South Yorkshire (Except area covered by England VI).
- England X ~ Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire.
- England XI ~ Staffordshire and the West Midlands also.
- England XII ~ North Yorkshire.
- England XIII ~ The Midlands, including Warwickshire, Coventry and Northamptonshire.
- England XIV ~ Devon, Cornwall and Somerset.
- England XV ~ Around the Burnley area, Lancashire.
- England XVI ~ Cumbria
In Scotland the chapters are:
- Scotland I ~ Non-Geographical chapter covering Scotland.
- Scotland II ~ Dunfermline area and surrounds.
In Wales the chapters are:
In Ireland the chapters are:
- Ireland I ~ The Republic of Ireland.
Care Of Police Survivors
Care of Police Survivors or COPS as it's known, is the charity in the UK that supports the families of police officers killed in the line of duty. They are survivors themselves and understand the pain and trauma that this devastating event causes.
They put new survivors in touch with a network of other survivors who are able to offer the kind of help and support that those suffering such a loss may need at a particularly hard time in their lives.
Membership is open to spouses, partners, children, parents and siblings of officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty. And as COPS mission statement says:
THERE IS NO MEMBERSHIP FEE.
THE PRICE PAID IS ALREADY TOO HIGH.
The Blue Knights® in the UK actively support COPS throughout the year with donations and activities to raise money for the charity, with the culmination being the annual Law Ride to the National Memorial Arboretum in July each year where we come together, along with representatives of all United Kingdom Police Forces, to support the survivors in an act of remembrance for all those who have lost their lives.
If you are able to help COPS with a donation or to raise money, then don't hesitate to contact them and they will be able to assist you further.
Website: http://www.ukcops.org/
Contact: COPS contact page
International Honorary ~ Christine Fulton MBE
International Honorary members of the Blue Knights® Law Enforcement Motorcycle Club are only given the position with the approval of the International Board. There are very few within the organistion, but include Their Majesties the King and Queen of Belgium. So it is with great pride that the UKIC nomination of Christine Fulton MBE co-founder and National President of Care Of Police Survivors, as an International Honorary member of the Blue Knights has been accepted by the International Board.
Here you can see UKIC Vice Chairman Al Goold presenting Christine with her Blue Knights® International Honorary Member blue vest.
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