ESSEX Police Federation will continue to press the force to give its officers the South East Allowance, Chairman Steve Taylor has said.<\/p>\n
The allowance is currently \u00a32,000 and the Home Office has given permission for it to be raised to \u00a33,000, although not provided any extra funding for the force to pay for it.<\/p>\n
However, Steve said that did not mean the Federation would \u201ctake our foot off the pedal\u201d in asking for officers to have it.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cThe mistake is that it\u2019s to compensate us for cost of living in the South, and that\u2019s not really a true representation of what it\u2019s for.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe difficulty around the South East allowance is that it\u2019s not like London weighting, because a lot of people think that it\u2019s to compensate us for the cost of living in the South.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt only compensates for the cost of living in the South if we can\u2019t recruit people to Essex. So if we\u2019re losing too many people and we can\u2019t recruit people to replace them, then that\u2019s what the South East allowance is designed to combat.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd of course, whilst we are losing people, we are falling over ourselves with people looking to join the organisation. So the pressure there isn\u2019t really going to be relieved by paying those of us who are already here a little bit more money.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo there\u2019s too much wiggle room there for the force to get away without paying it, which is disappointing but we continue to ask.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it does speak directly to fairness, it does speak directly to being fairly compensated for a hard day\u2019s work, and it is within the gift of the organisation. So we can use the fact the Pay and Morale survey, to ask the question again of the organisation, that it\u2019s within the gift, that we\u2019d like to see this payment made.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust because we have a pretty strong sense of what the answer to the question is going to be, doesn\u2019t mean we can let the organisation off the hook by not asking them the awkward question and making them tell us that it\u2019s a no.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important that it\u2019s on the Chief\u2019s radar from our point of view, and then as funds are available, whenever spending is going on, we have to put the marker down that \u2018We\u2019d like you to consider paying us\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
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