THE new Government must deliver more resources for policing, enhance police pay and conditions and improve adult and child social care, Essex Police Federation has urged.<\/p>\n
And it wants whichever party is in power after the General Election to follow through on promises made to boost police officer numbers.<\/p>\n
Sorting out the length of time it takes the IOPC to resolve cases should also be high on the to-do list of whoever is Home Secretary, said Essex Federation Chairman Steve Taylor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started the General Election campaign with promises of better resources so we can return to some of the numbers that the police force had before austerity. I think it\u2019s really important that whatever Government lands they start to follow through on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also saw the Home Affairs Select Committee start to take more of an interest with the announcement of an inquiry into the IOPC. I think that\u2019s crucial for officers to have confidence in the body that\u2019s meant to investigate them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe level of scrutiny that they\u2019re held to, in my view, isn\u2019t sufficient because they fail in a number of areas and there\u2019s no one to hold them to account. That should be something any Home Secretary should be doing, for all our sakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to see a general improvement in the social care of adults and children in society. As the force of last resort, as the emergency service of last resort, we see ourselves increasingly stretched to breaking point by calls for service in areas that traditionally would have been dealt with by other public services such as mental health,\u201d Steve added.<\/p>\n
More must be done to protect and enhance officers\u2019 pay and conditions too, Steve believes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would tell the Home Secretary whoever that will be to plan to grow officer numbers and [look at] the pay and conditions of officers. It\u2019s still front and centre of what we\u2019re [the Federation] is here for and what we\u2019re interested in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d also say standardise the way you\u2019re going to fund specials joining the Federation. Don\u2019t leave it to local arrangements because they will vary vastly across the country and there\u2019ll be winners and losers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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