Police Officer, £50,000 pay, complains about income.

Spare a copper, guv!

I read the blogs today, and read how a Police Officer is complaining about the volume of overtime they have to work, taking home only £50,000 to £90,000 a year. These are cops that have the maximum increments and have failed to rise above the rank of Sergeant in ten years policing. Police officers with extraordinary knowledge in many cases, seen by their colleagues to be ,’The Right Stuff’, with an exceptional knowledge of crime, criminals, the justice system and how to milk the public purse, a purse already stretched to the limit funding massive unemployment, for maximum benefit.

The author of the blog, (http://pcbloggs. blogspot. com) blames predictable events and shows, shoplifters, the courts system and the pace of work police officers can find themselves subject to. The author goes on to suggest that managers and supervisors are unable to simply reallocate officers to cover shortfall. If senior officers are unable to complete minor office staff and management anomalies, it begs wonder if officers are promoted through the ranks too easily, leaving others to flounder in the promotional system, to systematically milk it for all they can get.

Officers are not poorly paid by any stretch of the imagination, when one considers they are have a job for 30 years or more if they keep their noses clean, with little likelihood of losing their job simply because there is a downturn in jobs as the recession bites. You never hear of police officers being laid off as there is no demand for them. Pop along to your local Police HQ and look at the high end cars and trucks in their car park, ours actually has porches, big BMW’s, and other high value marques. (Normally such cars are out of reach to most people in times of a recession, but officers earn interesting sums and can easily afford the better cars)

There is a simple solution.

1) Stop the second jobbers in toto. This would ensure all officers are bright eyed and bushy tailed after their 16 hours off duty.
2) Compensate all police officers by introducing a fixed Salary.
3) Reduce the number of officers occupying roles that require no use of their warrant or charge.
4) Re-employ uniformed officers in the roles that depend upon the officer having police powers (put them back at the ‘sharp end’).
5) Employ much lower paid civilians in the tasks previously done by the police that had been miss-employed at a cost to the public purse.

The armed forces do not get 'overtime', why should the Police?

Easy peasy solution, but watch and listen while the whiners in blue find a million faults with the simple logic that provides an affordable, realistic intelligent solution.

VS