Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Policing Pledge... Policing what??!

No sooner had my Supervision finally nailed every PC with the 'Policing Pledge' it would now appear the current government think it's a pile of and have promptly disposed of it....

Great! Thank god! What huge waste of time and effort that was trying to force me to comply with it, in the process changing nothing, wasting vast sums of money and then getting rid of it!

Another 'fad' passes into the void and we move on into money saving and difficult times for the civvies and other wasters on the payroll. Whispers have been heard in the nick of certain people being moved around, certain office positions being removed completely and PCs with no street experience for over a decade now possibly being stuck out in the front line! It's amusing at the very least (if I was a MOP I would be terrified!) but it does start to make you wonder what the structure of policing in the country is going to be in 12 months time.

In my case I don't have a huge amount to worry about, recruitment and retention has been a huge issue of late and needless to say I'm part of a small and essential team. I can see the upper structures being shoved about but nothing dramatic at my lowly end - for which I'm very grateful!!

3 Disgruntled comments:

Anonymous said...

Take a leaf out of Gadget's book and make it all up if you wish to attract comment.

Joe said...

Where've you disappeared to? Haven't had a new post from you in ages!
Hope all is okay!

Anonymous said...

My force have kept the pledge, just so that we can fail continuously.