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Paul Gwinnett
e Forensics
29 years’ service
Would you yourself carry out your duties of
protecting life and property (as shown by
Officers in the riots of 2011) when you face a
risk of being injured, restricted and being
made redundant, when there are no
guarantees in place of being protected against
loss of income, mortgage and family home
Sally Holmes
Force Contact
18 years’ service
Do you think that the Home Office is fooling
itself with reporting on the same crime figures
now as in the 1970s - BDH, car crime and
robbery
Do we not need to reflect changes within
organised criminality to prioritise and report
on matters such as trafficking (always treated
as an aside, not among primary crime data),
prostitution (to encourage forces to take a
proactive stance on the seedier side of the
plethora of lap dancing clubs), cannabis farms
and illegal labour. At present, the general
public can see these activities all around them,
yet they do not feature as Force priorities, in
even the Metropolitan Forces. Organised
crime gangs have moved on but we have
failed to keep up!
PC Khan
Birmingham West & Central
4 years’ service
Tom Winsor and Theresa May:
1. In light of the current financial climate, why
is it that police officers are having to pay more
into their pension and had restricted or no
payments for the rate of inflation, when the
MPs seem to have a gold-plated pension and
aren’t being affected Surely an increase in
pension payments was meant for all public
sector workers
2. The current morale of officers is low, as we
are being treated unfairly. We have no clarity
on what is going to happen to officers’ pay
once the job-related incremental freeze is over.
As you would have saved two years’ worth of
payments, are we going to jump up to what
we by right should be on or are you going to
mock us further
Dean Woodcock
Birmingham East
15 years’ service
As we the police service have all taken a ‘hit’
with our pension contributions and end result,
are the panel taking an equal part in our
country’s recovery and increasing their
pension contribution and receiving less at the
end of their service
Dan Lagorio
9 years’ service
How is it fair that I pay about £400 a month
into my pension for an extra 10 years, totalling
£48,000, to receive £50,000 less than I was
expecting at the end of my service In effect, I
am having to pay the Government £100,000
to work for another decade.
Mark Hickman
Birmingham South
17 years’ service
Tom Winsor: On morning TV, Winsor said
that the pay gaps between officers was too
wide. He used the example of two officers
being threatened with a knife and dealing
with the incident. He pointed out that the pay
of the officers could be considerably different.
The range could now be, say from £20k to
£37k. The reforms that he proposed have done
nothing to close that gap and, in fact, with the
lower starting salaries have widened the gap.
Why did he say that that was his intention
Secondly, why has rent or housing
allowance been allowed to remain How can
it be fair to give officers that extra money for
doing the same job. It reinforces the notion
that Winsor has not been fair in his proposals
and has done nothing really to close the gap
between officers pay scale like he said that he
would.
Pete Rowe
Sandwell
25 years’ service
I think my question to them all would be
given no doubt further spending cuts to police
budgets - when do they think forces will start
meaningful recruitment and, in the absence of
such, how will policing cope with the
three-year and increasing void of no new
recruits
Deb Valentine
Lloyd House
I would like to know what happens to
part-time officers and officers who have taken
unpaid maternity leave in the pension
calculations
Are part-time workers going to be
discriminated against as their full pension date
is extended due to their hours of work Is the
pension calculation date going to be the end
of 30 years’ service as if they were full-time or
when they reach 30 full pensionable years on
part-time hours
What about unpaid maternity leave Will
that be taken into account as before a date in
time this was only applicable to women
PC Cunnion
Birmingham East
I feel the Government is constantly taking
liberties what with our pay, pensions and
conditions. I don’t know if it would be
acceptable to raise the question about working
the 30 minutes for Queen and country for
nothing. I believe we are the only organisation
that do this. I feel that this is a little outdated
now.
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