This is a major problem as they would be easily corrupted with cash bribes
This opens the door to corruption. Police Officers desperate for money for basic necessities that they accept bribes
Remember; any time you see an article about people in jobs like this having to use food banks, it’s because most of their money is going on rent.
The government could solve this any time they wanted to by building large amounts of social housing.
Bruh… HOW…
You are on almost Median full time salary?
The base salary isn’t awful for most officers, but for your first few years you’ll be on ~~£1600 or £1700 a month for some forces~~ EDIT – This is the best case scenario, not the standard national salary, as my colleague below has highlighted
Add on costs like legal insurance, having to travel to work at all hours of day or night (which often necessitates using a car or bike, because trains and buses aren’t reliable enough) and then the unusually large pension deductions, and it really starts to get tricky.
I await an increasing number of corruption cases when colleagues start struggling to cover costs, sadly.
Transparent attempts to secure sympathy at a time when people are rightly questioning police conduct and their actions as a institution
At this point we might as well just copy-paste:
Something something food banks.
Something something “low” paid workers.
Something something evil tories.
Yawn.
I always have mixed feelings on police pay. On the one hand these are hardworking people doing a very difficult job, and our society needs people to stop criminals. It isn’t fair that they get shit wages and shit treatment even when they are doing their jobs right.
On the other hand, the police has a long history of breaking up strikes and protests including arresting and searching leaders of other unions picketing for pay and working conditions, and police unions are vehement in protecting officers from being fired for genuine misconduct and standing in the way of efforts to reform the police.
I’m on £18000. So yeah, if I didn’t have the support of my parents still I’d be struggling
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This is a major problem as they would be easily corrupted with cash bribes
This opens the door to corruption. Police Officers desperate for money for basic necessities that they accept bribes
Remember; any time you see an article about people in jobs like this having to use food banks, it’s because most of their money is going on rent.
The government could solve this any time they wanted to by building large amounts of social housing.
Bruh… HOW…
You are on almost Median full time salary?
The base salary isn’t awful for most officers, but for your first few years you’ll be on ~~£1600 or £1700 a month for some forces~~ EDIT – This is the best case scenario, not the standard national salary, as my colleague below has highlighted
Add on costs like legal insurance, having to travel to work at all hours of day or night (which often necessitates using a car or bike, because trains and buses aren’t reliable enough) and then the unusually large pension deductions, and it really starts to get tricky.
I await an increasing number of corruption cases when colleagues start struggling to cover costs, sadly.
Transparent attempts to secure sympathy at a time when people are rightly questioning police conduct and their actions as a institution
At this point we might as well just copy-paste:
Something something food banks.
Something something “low” paid workers.
Something something evil tories.
Yawn.
I always have mixed feelings on police pay. On the one hand these are hardworking people doing a very difficult job, and our society needs people to stop criminals. It isn’t fair that they get shit wages and shit treatment even when they are doing their jobs right.
On the other hand, the police has a long history of breaking up strikes and protests including arresting and searching leaders of other unions picketing for pay and working conditions, and police unions are vehement in protecting officers from being fired for genuine misconduct and standing in the way of efforts to reform the police.
I’m on £18000. So yeah, if I didn’t have the support of my parents still I’d be struggling