NEARLY half of all Essex police officers say they worry about their finances every day a new survey has revealed.<\/p>\n
The shocking statistics from the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) 2018 Pay and Morale Survey showed that 49% of Essex officers are concerned enough about their financial situation to think about it \u2018every day or every other day.\u2019<\/p>\n
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The majority (71%) say they are dissatisfied with their overall remuneration (including basic pay and allowances) 75% say they feel worse off financially than five years ago, while 52% used the survey to say their morale was low.<\/p>\n
Nearly 90% of respondents said they felt morale was low force wide.<\/p>\n
The figures come on the back of a police pay rise of 2%, although in real terms that is nearer 1% \u00a0as last year\u2019s award consisted of a 1% one-off bonus.<\/p>\n
The figures from Essex largely matched views across England and Wales where 89% of officers said they do not feel fairly compensated for what they do.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s pretty grim reading,\u201d said John Apter, PFEW Chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, it\u2019s not altogether surprising. Our members are clearly suffering from even worse financial pressures than last year and some are appearing to be in dire straits.<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficers are under enormous pressure to deliver, with dwindling resources and rising crime, particularly violent crime, leading to a demand for our services that has never been higher.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know officers are struggling and some have had to resort to food vouchers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is clearly unacceptable that they cannot make ends meet or even put food on their families\u2019 tables,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The findings will be put forward by the PFEW as part of their annual submission to the Police Remuneration Review Body.<\/p>\n
To view the Essex report visit; http:\/\/polfed.org\/documents\/Essex%20Pay%20and%20Morale%20Force%20Report%20-%2020-07-18%20-%20v.1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NEARLY half of all Essex police officers say they worry about their finances every day a new survey has revealed. The shocking statistics from the Police Federation of England and\u2026 read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4017,"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\/4640"}],"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=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}