All the recent shenanigans about Police Pay and this government’s back track on arbitration, have made me start to wonder. Is there something more sinister going on?
I remember going to a Police Training School for 14 solid weeks of law exams and physical beastings. By the time I left, I could quote most of the major Acts and Statutes that a Police Officer will use on a day to day basis. One of the hardest things to get your head around, was arrestable offences and offences with a power of arrest! We not only needed to know if something was an offence, but also if we were able to arrest a person for that offence or deal with it by way of report. Since the Serious and Organised Crime Act came into being, all we need to know now is, is something an offence.
But then, do we need to even know that? In years gone by, I would get sent to an incident and would have to use my knowledge of the law, to decide if an offence had been committed and if so, what offence. I would then have to submit the necessary crime report. Nowadays, some civvy, using a drop down menu on his/her computer screen, will have already decided what crime has occurred before I attend.
Then when I do attend, there will be a policy dictating, what I have to do. I don’t have to decide if I need to arrest anyone, because policy will tell me!
So, is this government, looking at de-skilling me, so that they don’t have to pay me so much. I do wonder sometimes!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Of course your not worth the money to the government. The prisons are full so your going to cost the Government money having to build new Titan jails.Or as that idea been binned already? Also the government keep telling us crime is down so stop showing them up by catching naughty boys and girls.
So in conclusion, stop catching the criminals that need locking up thus saving the Government the embarrasment of having to pretend to be tough on crime.They will probably give you all 40k a year with a bonus at the end of the year for every empty prison cell.
Post a Comment