{"id":3330,"date":"2017-01-30T11:44:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2017-01-30T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:52:48","slug":"3330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=3330","title":{"rendered":"Call for officers to help bust Essex Police red tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESSEX Police officers can help reduce red tape by taking it upon themselves to tell the management about the problems they encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The force has a \u201cbusted red tape\u201d email address where officers can report the bureaucracy that makes their job harder and suggest ways of streamlining processes.\u00a0Steve Taylor, Federation Chairman, said: \u201cThe email address is for all those ideas people might have, regardless how big or small.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Steve added:\u00a0\u201cIt is important for members to make use of this, because the responsibility for making best use of what we have doesn&#8217;t rest solely with the management. If we have what we think is a really good idea about how we could do something better, how we could make a change, then professionally I want to encourage us all to bring that forward and bring it to the attention of the organisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that while officers could raise issues with a supervisor, by using the email address ideas will go straight to the team responsible for coordinating change. Also, those that contribute will get a reply as to why their idea can or cannot be implemented.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThere is always more red tape that we can get rid of. For every great idea and for every initiative or incentive we bring in, invariably admin comes with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The email address can be found on the Federation\u2019s internal force web page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESSEX Police officers can help reduce red tape by taking it upon themselves to tell the management about the problems they encounter. The force has a \u201cbusted red tape\u201d email\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=3330\" class=\"read-more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}