ESSEX Police officers are \u201cvery angry\u201d that MPs were awarded a 10% pay rise on the same day the country\u2019s cops were awarded 1%.<\/p>\n
Mark Smith, Chairman of Essex Police Federation, said the difference was \u201cinsulting\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe keep being told we are all in this together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Smith said the two different pay rises were \u201chardly seen as fair by any of my members who have been very angry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police officers will receive a 1% boost to their pay packets from 1 September.<\/p>\n
Theresa May accepted the main recommendations of both the Police Remunerations Review Body (PRRB) and the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB) to give officers the award.<\/p>\n
Both the Police Federation of England and Wales and the Superintendents\u2019 Association asked for an \u201cuplift of 1% for all\u201d in their submission.<\/p>\n
Mr Smith added: \u201cOfficers are extremely angry. There\u2019s a feeling MPs see themselves far above everybody else and those that are on the ground that are trying to do right by the public, doing a very hard job, are being told \u2018Yeah, thanks but you\u2019re getting one percent\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cof interest rates go up towards the end of the year, which the Bank of England are saying that they possibly could do, we\u2019re going to be going back into that area of possibly almost having a pay drop really.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo our members and myself are not overly impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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