ESSEX Police Federation is \u2018watching with interest\u2019 to see how plans to introduce more regional and role related pay structures for police officers pan out.<\/p>\n
Chairman Steve Taylor says there are strengths and weaknesses to the potential proposals for Essex officers who face high house prices and an increased cost of living compared to others in England and Wales.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere\u2019s a general move away from incremental pay increase across the board and what the College of Policing in particular are pushing for is more duty related pay, more role related pay,\u201d Steve said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are strengths and weaknesses for our members to both elements of that argument, but by and large I agree that officers working more anti-social hours, dealing with more risk, it\u2019s not unreasonable for them to be compensated more advantageously than colleagues who perhaps don\u2019t work the anti-social hours, who perhaps don\u2019t deal with that risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s role related not performance related and is an incredibly divisive subject. We are watching with interest what\u2019s happening with the Superintendents as they are trialling what this kind of targeted pay looks like,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A good place to start would be looking at the South East Allowance, he added, as a way of helping officers with living costs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the organisation wanted a way of recognising the increased cost of living that our members have to put up with for the privilege of living and working in Essex, then the South East Allowance is one they should be focusing their attention.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe role an officer performs in the organisation matters not if you are looking for a way to reduce the cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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