FORCES should encourage their own officers to become detectives \u2013 or risk the posts being filled by direct entry candidates with no experience of being a bobby on the beat.<\/p>\n
That is the view of Essex Police Federation Chairman Steve Taylor, who admits that enticing people into detective work is a difficult problem to solve.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIf we could answer the problem of how to get people into detective work we\u2019d solve a lot of ills in the organisation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the complexity of detective work is increasing specialist as more complex investigations come to light, whether they are financial or sexual or relationship based. So maybe that\u2019s a reason why we struggle to get people to follow that through as a career path.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe there\u2019s a lack of visible detective role models amongst the rank and file, with it becoming more specialist, with them having their own hopes, their own remits, maybe they work less frequently with day to day response shifts, so the opportunity to see them is missed?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important that we are able to grow our own detectives, if you like, because the door to direct entry at the detective level is already open, and that undermines the under-skilled warranted officer that is at the heart of British policing, making it the best in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are keen that we do grow our own detectives and support the organisation as it tries to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Steve said Essex Police Federation did not support the idea of giving extra money to entice people into specialist roles, such as detective.<\/p>\n
He explained: \u201cGenerally speaking, we should resist, because while others are valued financially, others are devalued. While some are given opportunities to earn more money by taking on more risk, people that choose not to do that, in some way, are considered second-class then and don\u2019t receive the same pay that we should all be receiving for doing the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe understand the drive to look into it. We understand that those among us take on more risk, work more anti-social hours, and get compensated at the same level as someone else.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if the only way of advancing them and earning more money is to take on more risk, you deny those that don\u2019t want to, you deny those that don\u2019t want to specialise, that want to be a career PC working on shift. So it is divisive, and we\u2019re sceptical that we can make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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