Police to strike ?

[Questions]

So the government have apparently renaged on a deal and the police are furious that they are not going to get their 0.5 % they claim is owing to them.

This the same organisation who waved their pay packets at the miners - proud men who were fighting for their communities and not a few more pennies in their fat grubby little pockets - who had been promised all sorts if productivity levels were reached in those sad old days in the eighties. Lets hope the sons and daughters of Thatchers henchmen get their comeuppance.

Let the wankers strike.............. who will notice the difference.

What a picket line that would be.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

bit harsh, as much as i "hate" them, they probably do deserve a few pence extra....

 

[Yorkie]

Every police officer in the UK is to be balloted over whether they want to lobby for the right to strike, the Police Federation has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7141081.stm

No quite the same thing.

 

[fatbadger]

Wouldn't it be great if they had a picket line 'policed' by battered workers with carte blanche? What comes around goes around...

 

[Lord Bracknell]

If this were to happen, there's a load of ex-miners who will be only too willing to be drafted in to sort them out.

 

[Buzzer]

How's this work then? As I understand it, it is illegal for Police officers to strike. So what if they vote for it. It's still illegal isn't it?

I'm loving the miners idea, by the way, LB.

 

[Questions]

If this were to happen, there's a load of ex-miners who will be only too willing to be drafted in to sort them out.

"Arthur, standing his ground
Pouring strength of will and body into the gathering force,
With them, of them, for them.
The blue ranks parting like the Red Sea,
To let the cavalry through,
Hooves, truncheon and baton
Against bone and flesh."

 

[Questions]

Documents show that more than 300,000 working days were lost last year directly due to the effects of stress on officers


A thousand police officers a day are off work with stress-related sickness - costing the taxpayer more than £1 million each week, new figures reveal.

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show that more than 300,000 working days were lost last year directly due to the effects of stress on officers - accounting for around a quarter of all police sickness in England and Wales.

The alarming figures follow recent revelations that a further 8,000 officers are claiming full pay while on 'restrictive or recuperative duties' - with some working for as little as one hour a day while they recover from illness or injury.

Their wage bill amounts to more than £240 million a year.

At a time when police are struggling to hold back the rising tide of violent crime -particularly alcohol-fuelled disorder - the sickness levels are a blow for the Government's law-and-order credentials.

Total stress-related sickness among the 140,000 officers in England and Wales last year was equivalent to slightly more than two days per officer - at an average cost of £162 per day.

Total sickness for all causes was equivalent to 8.5 days per officer.

In the private sector the average number of sick days per year is just 6.4 days,

A thousand officers absent due to stress each day is the equivalent of a small county force such as Warwickshire staying away from work en masse.


ITS ALL ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS BOYS.

 

[Starry]

i had a fair amount of sympathy for them until this afternoon when montgomery (pretty certain that was his name he is some spokesman) came out of the meeting they had today onto an interview on radio 5 with mayo and spouted the most arrogant, pig headed bunch of bullshit i had heard in a long time. don't like to tar everyone with the same brush but he certainly did no favours.

 

[Statto]

I think Id become a criminal for the day.

 

[fatbadger]

How's this work then? As I understand it, it is illegal for Police officers to strike. So what if they vote for it. It's still illegal isn't it?

They are voting on whether or not their union should begin lobbying for the right to strike.

 

[Buzzer]

ahh, I see....and if the Government say no?

 

[Buzzer]

ignore

 

[Nemesis]

They are voting on whether or not their union should begin lobbying for the right to strike.

Will the crime rate drop with the cops not 'working'?

Can one become an 'honorary miner' if they go on strike?

 

[beorhthelm]

i think this issue is not so much about the actual pay, but the way the government agreed a deal then apparently pulled back on some of it. bascially the government is incompetent and now has lost the support of the police, its really not very clever.

 

[Yorkie]

i think this issue is not so much about the actual pay, but the way the government agreed a deal then apparently pulled back on some of it. bascially the government is incompetent and now has lost the support of the police, its really not very clever.

It is.
We haven't been given a pay rise at all. We've been told that loyalty progression is good enough.

 

[fatbadger]

Och well. Most other public sector workers have been getting shat on for years over pay, and when they've had the temerity to complain, the police have been the ones sent in to bully and harrass strikers. No sympathy from me, especially bearing in mind how overpaid they already are.

 

[who me?]

lazy f***ing incompetant overpaid bastards the lot of them.
only time you can get them out is if you promise them a TV camera crew or at least a photographer from the sun to get their fat doughnut munching faces on the news. ask harry from pompey or any of the muslims they have wrongfully arrested,raided without finding any evidence and then shot.
let the plod go on strike,who would know the difference,the fuckers spend all day filling in forms and fiddling the overtime sheets.

let the miners and the relatives of the hillsborough victims THEY murdered work the picket lines

 

[Nibble]

You can bang on about how bad the Police are but with the exception of say the Fireman on here (Bry?) they do a far more dangerous and worthy job than ANY of us.

They put up with violence, abuse, threats, physical assault etc etc and the only reason that they might not be able to get to you on time is because they are understaffed, underbudgeted and under immense pressure.

Just 'cos you don't like being told what to do at a football match it doesn't mean that the Police don't help real people with real problems every hour of every day 365 days a year.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Totally agree, Nibble. I dare say we have one of the best police services in the world.

I love the way people complain about the police being useless, overpaid etc. but can you imagine these detractors taking the job? I don't think many of them would be happy with a night shift dealing with drunken yobs firing abuse at them.

Also, why are they criticised for their lack of appearance on the street? Surely they are instructed to follow orders and the criticism should be levied at the Police hierarchy..?