COPPED ENOUGH
and she accused the Police Federation of scaremongering and crying wolf. Yet a decade later crime rates have gone up (44 per cent), officers are leaving the service in their thousands (resignations are up 142 per cent since 2018), officers’ pay has plummeted by 21 per cent in real terms since 2010 and public confidence in policing has declined. As well as local and
Peers, to get questions asked of the Home Secretary and Police Minister in Parliament.
In recent weeks, we seized upon the news that the doctors may possibly ballot
“Politicians cannot bury
national engagement with MPs on the Copped Enough campaign, we worked with Liz Saville Roberts MP, to table an Early Day Motion in Parliament. The EDM calls for a fair pay mechanism and, in the absence of being able to take industrial action, that the Police Remuneration Review Body must allow proper negotiation and then its decisions on a pay award be binding on government. MPs can show their support by signing up to the EDM. We are also working with colleagues in the Justice Unions’ Parliamentary Group, a group that brings together organisations from the criminal justice sector with MPs and
their heads in the sand about the need for fair pay and conditions, to ensure we attract the right people to the job and retain experienced officers.”
for industrial action over their pay, to stress the need for a pay mechanism that allows proper negotiation, collective bargaining and binding arbitration to determine police officer pay. Pay awards that take account of the inability to take industrial action, the unique nature of policing, the restrictions on your lives and the lives of your families, the dangers of the job, and the long-term degradation of pay. Just as this edition of POLICE
magazine was going to press, several chief constables sent a letter to The
Times saying that more funding is needed for policing. They are right, and it is good to hear chiefs standing up to be counted and joining our call for increased funding. But they failed to highlight the elephant in the room, the chronic failure to address historically low pay and, as a result, the retention crisis facing police forces across England and Wales. There is still much work
to be done, and we are grabbing every opportunity we can to highlight the injustice of years of pay
degradation and the harmful effects of experienced officers leaving the service. However, this is just a brief snapshot of some of the activity that your local and national Federation representatives have been focussed on to ensure that politicians cannot bury their heads in the sand about the need for fair pay and conditions, to ensure we attract the right people to the job and retain experienced officers, so that we can provide the best service possible to fight crime and keep communities safe.
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