Manchester police struggling to recruit detectives because of long hours – Greater Manchester police forced to use agency supplying retired detectives to bridge gaps

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  1. Manchester police struggling to recruit detectives because of ~~long hours~~ poor pay and deliberate understaffing.

    There’s plenty of jobs in the private sector where shift times are unpredictable or long hours are needed to be pulled during busy periods.

  5. It’s a shame all the experienced manc detectives keep getting hit by cars and sent back to the 70s.

  6. We can’t bash heads like we used to,

    But we still have our ways

    One way is to tell stories that don’t go anywhere, like the time I caught the canal boat over to Stockport. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Cooperville, which is what they called Stockport in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a a shilling and in those days, they had pictures of bumblebees on ’em. “Give me five bees for a half penny bit” you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..

  7. Ex-officer here (slung out for poor health). It’s a crap job with crap pay. Retentions rates are terrible and leadership are absolutely ruthless with probationary officers. I also know people that joined up because they couldn’t get a graduate job anywhere else.

  9. Because the role is shit, the hours are shit, the pay is shit, the risk you carry can have you sacked or on a criminal charge, and the constant bombardment from the MSM how your all baby killers etc..

  10. Do Boomers think they invented working long hours?

    Police pay is terrible and the police service is a largely a disgrace.

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