Police blast Priti Patel over pay and tell her some officers are using FOOD BANKS as she faces rank and file for the first time since Covid

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  1. >Priti Patel was blasted over poor police pay as she faced rank and file officers today, after Boris Johnson had vowed to get touch on crime.
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    >The Home Secretary was told that some officers are resorting to using food banks today as she attended the Police Federation Conference in person for the first time since the pandemic.
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    >But she was confronted in Manchester by officers who told to ‘put her money where her mouth is’ amid a stand off over pay. The federation is one of the police organisations embroiled in a row with the Government over a pay freeze.
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    >Answering questions after giving a speech, groans could be heard when Ms Patel told delegates the federation – which represents more than 130,000 officers from the rank of constable to chief inspector – had not been ‘at the table’ recently for pay negotiations.
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    >Rich Cooke, chairman of the West Midlands Police Federation, was met with cheers and applause from the audience when he told her: ‘It’s about time you and your colleagues put your money where your mouth is and did something about the terrible state that our colleagues are finding themselves in.’
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    >([🪞 link](https://archive.ph/kfU7j))

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    Also on this:

    >Independent: [Priti Patel told police officers are using food banks while ‘struggling to feed their families’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/priti-patel-food-banks-cost-of-living-b2080956.html)
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    >Concerns raised over officers quitting because they ‘cannot afford’ to be in policing
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    >([🪞 link](https://archive.ph/YuvGn))

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    >The National: [Priti Patel asked if she would go out to get kicked and spat at for £1,200 a month](https://www.thenational.wales/news/20146067.priti-patel-asked-go-get-kicked-spat-1-200-month/)
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    >North Wales Police officer, told the Police Federation annual conference how she had to borrow money from her mother and described herself and some colleagues as “desperately struggling to do the job that we love and to make ends meet”
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    >([🪞 link](https://archive.ph/QS9xa))

  2. I feel a lot of the general public direct a lot of shit at the police for the actions of Patel and the Home Office as a whole, presumably because they’re the easy targets on the ground.

    A lot of the general public really need to learn that a LOT of police think she’s an absolute dickhead.

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