Maybe and perhaps the first thing they could strike over could be the abolished overtime and bonus payments.
Theresa May, the Home Secretary, announced that "radical" steps were needed to overhaul outdated policing practices and said that "nothing will be off-limits" in the pay review.
In the face of severe public spending cuts, ministers and police chiefs believe that front-line jobs can be saved by slashing hundreds of millions of pounds worth of overtime bills, performance-related bonuses and "Spanish practices" within the service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...to-strike.html
Seriously this is potentially the biggest and most far reaching of all our cost cutting measures yet, you only have to look at Equador's recent police strike to see what can happen.
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