{"id":83367,"date":"2019-09-24T15:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=83367"},"modified":"2019-09-25T06:56:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:56:35","slug":"no-one-should-be-worse-off-but-there-is-an-argument-for-some-people-being-better-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=83367","title":{"rendered":"Police pay: &#8220;No-one should be worse off, but there is an argument for some people being better off\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">FRONTLINE officers should be paid a wage that reflects the demanding and dangerous nature of their role, Essex Police Federation has said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Steve Taylor, talking as chiefs began a consultation on performance-related pay, warned that proposed changes could be \u201cextremely divisive\u201d, and said \u201cwhile no-one should be worse off, there is an argument for some people being better off.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Steve said: \u201cThis is a really delicate issue that requires a lot of thought. On the face of it, is it right that officers doing wildly different jobs within the police service, at the same rank, get paid the same? I think it\u2019s fair to say, by and large, we\u2019re moving away from that position as being fair. But what is it replaced with, is the question.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">He advocated for a strong division between entitlements and pay and conditions, adding that entitlements like the South East allowance should not be confused with pay and conditions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">He said: \u201cIt is a very broad subject. It is very sensitive and very controversial and needs to be dealt with very carefully. But it\u2019s a conversation we do need to have. I\u2019d like to see officers getting paid more money and I\u2019d like to see officers at the riskier end of what we do getting paid more for that risk. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cBut it is important to note that no-one deserves a pay cut.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Chief Constables have announced plans for performance-related pay for officers based on their \u2018capability\u2019 and \u2018productivity\u2019. As part of a three-month consultation period, proposals are being considered to introduce four pay-stages; Training, Foundation, Competent, Advanced. However, fears have been voiced that these moves will lead to officers chasing targets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Body\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">A three-month consultation period on the Chief\u2019s proposals will start in October before any new pay structure plan is put forward by the National Police Chiefs\u2019 Council to the Police Remuneration Review Body.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRONTLINE officers should be paid a wage that reflects the demanding and dangerous nature of their role, Essex Police Federation has said. Steve Taylor, talking as chiefs began a consultation\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/?p=83367\" class=\"read-more-link\">read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3993,"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\/83367"}],"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=83367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84583,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83367\/revisions\/84583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essexfedfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}