YEARS of pushing for proper police pay through the Police Remuneration Review Body has got the service \u2018nowhere\u2019, says Essex Police Federation.<\/p>\n
The Federation has thrown its support behind the PFEW\u2019s proposals that officers should receive a 5% pay increase over the next three years and says that toeing the line with successive Governments has not worked.<\/p>\n
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Essex Federation Chairman Steve Taylor said the increase was being put forward to try and claw back some of the losses suffered due to decades of cuts and austerity, although he has \u2018sympathy\u2019 with forces who will have to find the cash to pay for any rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand why they\u2019re asking for it, to recoup some of the losses officers have personally suffered under austerity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the past couple of years, we\u2019ve made measured and evidenced submissions to the Pay Review Body and we\u2019ve tried to toe that overall line, and where\u2019s that got us? It\u2019s got us nowhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if there\u2019s a degree of frustration in the submission or not but it\u2019s certainly a departure from previous tacks, and it\u2019ll be interesting to see how the PRRB deal with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PFEW is already taking the Government to task legally over how the last pay review was handled by the Home Office and Steve says the pay proposal is more evidence of them having to take matters into their own hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cBalancing a submission which could be dismissed out of hand against our pedigree of measured and considered submissions, I\u2019m sure that\u2019s been discussed and worked through.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, officers are worth 5% a year. Equally, forces like Essex are not going to be able to pay it without making some pretty difficult decisions, and ultimately those decisions could involve paying the officers they have more or have less officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had these conversations with our Chief. I\u2019ve expressed we\u2019re uncomfortable boiling it down to such a basic equation as that, because it\u2019s not fair and it\u2019s emotive. But I think that\u2019s the reality of it. My force would really struggle to find 5%.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we had our own way, we\u2019d be paying officers far more, of course. If it was simply a question of \u2018what are police officers worth?\u2019 we could easily quadruple that figure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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