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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
This government need to have a good look in the mirror at themself and think, what are we doing to this country.
They have now decided to reduce the pay of officers, not only have they cut the forces down to a bare minimum, they have now decided to cut there pay.
This will not only reduce the morale of officers on the beat to an all time low, but it will reduce the prospect of anyone thinking of joining the service, we need MORE police officers and PCSO's on the beat otherwise crime will go up, and who will win in the end - the criminal, as they will know that if they commit a crime, there will be no old bill to nick em'.  |
They haven't cut salaries (they have frozen them), and they are not directly cutting the numbers.
They cannot make the Police Officers redundant. There are a lot of people who work for publicly funded organisations who are not necessarily directly employed by the government or any of the councils. They have no such job security. I am in that position.
Unfortunately, I think we would have had these cuts regardless of who was in charge, thanks to the mismanagement of the last government. I also think that had the government not made these cuts, the country would have gone "bankrupt". If this had happened, we would have been rescued, but we'd be facing far worse cuts now and cuts for a lot longer. Look at Ireland and Greece.