That`s about £8,000 a year more than me.
2007-12-12 03:57:28 · 23 answers · asked by Shanks 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
They are complaining about it not being backdated more than the amount. They think they've been done over by the government. Many people think they have been done over by the police.
Granted, a few police, mainly in inner city areas, do have to face danger and insults - occasionally - but many get an "easy" life for the money. Their lot involves sitting behind a radar gun catching motorists; supplying 15 year-old girls with alcohol and having sex with them; pushing young mothers down flights of stairs; dragging innocent 14 year-old boys out of bed in their pyjamas in the middle of the night and taking them into custody whilst denying their parents access to them; taking an hour and a half to attend a 999 call when 3 people armed with knives and bats were attacking staff at a family pub not 200 yards from their headquarters; refusing to attend a burglar alarm as they "don't do domestics" and asking the elderly lady who reported it if she could go through the group of youths standing on the pavement outside the house to check if there was a burglar around the back; beating a suspect (who was actually guilty of a non-violent crime) so badly that they made a deal with him to let him go providing he didn't make a complaint - I could go on, as the list doesn't end there.
These are not instances that I have read in a newspaper, nor some far fetched fantasy from an anarchistic thug, EVERY SINGLE ONE of those events has happened to me or members of my family. Corruption and abuse of power amongst the police is widespread.
Who do you think is worth more?
Police - after basic training £23454
Nurses - Basic grade £19600 (more than 1/3 of which have been harrassed or assaulted in the last 2 years)
Soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan £15677
2007-12-12 05:30:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
I think that if the police actually did what we really want them to do, i.e. patrol the streets in an effort to prevent crime, they probably would be entitled to ask for higher wages. Regrettably however, they simply seem to cruise around in cars and vans most of the time.
It is also complete nonsense for their union to keep bleating on about police officers only being paid £21K. That may well be the basic starting pay, but that is only a small percentage of staff surely. Most officers will have served several years so they will be on the higher rates, and they will also have access to overtime payments etc, plus they get their clothes provided and all sorts of other perks.
As for the police having the right to strike, this is of course a nonsense. What would be the point of us paying them at all, if whenever they were asked to do something they didn't like, they walked out on strike.
We would then have to bring in the armed forces to police the state and the police might then find that they had made themselves redundant!
We are already beginning to go down this road with the likely prospect of The EU having its own police force which would have superiority over our national police. We need to be very careful at this point in time, that the current industrial dispute with the police is not being engineered by those who would want to damage public sympathy for the police.
2007-12-15 07:53:51 · answer #2 · answered by jacyinbg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Police officers work damned hard for their money. They are never really off duty, they work anti social hours ( no proper weekends), they very often get held back when the shift ends because they are dealing with a job,they are under funded, they are under staffed, they are snowed under with paperwork and Red Tape, a night shift entails actually working all night (no beds available like some other night workers get) .A newly qualified officer earns about £21,500 and all they are asking for is their payrise in line with inflation,but this wasteful anti police Gov would rather fritter money away in other politically correct areas rather than give the police what their colleagues in Scotland have been given. Jaquie Smith deserves everything that is coming to her for treating these police with contempt.
2007-12-12 14:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by little weed 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Get a life Randy. You could have Been a police officer if...if...if.
Just because somebody gets more than you means that you could do the same. If you were prepared to face up to the insults and the thugs and the crowd control situations that they have to.
I was in the services, my brother is a police officer and I for one would not do his job. Besides they are not complaining about the pay only the deceitful way that the rise has been implemented.The government say one rise in percentage terms and then split it so that the true percentage rise is much less. They did this for the services for many years.
Be thankful that you have a job 1.6 million in UK haven't.
2007-12-12 12:25:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 3⤋
You really think that £25,000 per annum is satisfactory for putting your life on the line every day of the year? Well I don't.
2007-12-12 16:28:57 · answer #5 · answered by resignedtolife 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Like the nurses,they don't mention all the extra bonuses,allowances and benefits aswell!
They don't realise they'e well off compared to alot of people!
Dear everonline,the average wage is 30k in the UK? Hahahahahahahahaha! What world you live in? If you look at the averages, the bulk of people are on less than £13,000 a year unless they work ridiculous hours!Get real!
2007-12-12 12:10:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
They shouldn't moan, they knew what the wage was in the interview, and surely they knew the dangers of the job while on training, if i was the prime minister, id say " stop ya moaning, and get back to work, if you wanna pay rise work harder and be premoted, if not find another job"
2007-12-12 14:10:38 · answer #7 · answered by superstar 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The average salary in the UK is over £30,000.
Policemen have to be in the service for 30 years for the full pension.
I don't get out of bed for less than £30K.
Skills, talent, and demand all affect salaries, if nobody wanted to be a policeman, the salary would rise very quickly.
2007-12-12 12:12:05 · answer #8 · answered by Luke Warnes 4 · 2⤊ 6⤋
I agree and they get a fat index linked pension when they retire at 50.
That's worth a small fortune.
2007-12-12 12:09:39 · answer #9 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
For all those who don't think there on enough money ask yourself who will foot the wage increase bill.....
now do you think it's enough?
2007-12-12 12:45:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋