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[walesmjc]

Join the march – Thursday 10^th of May 2012 – are you going?

I haven’t seen much mention of the upcoming Police Federation march at London on Thursday the 10^th of May on the website and as the most visited Police form in the UK, who is going??

I have posted this in ‘general discussion’ to reach a wider audience as the march is open to all serving and retired Police officers, Specials, staff, friends & family and members of the public. In my opinion the basis for the march concerns everyone and is not restricted to ‘regular’s only’ or ‘regular’s zone’.

If you are seeking to join the service in any capacity, then you need to be aware of the issues of concern as they will affect you.

For those who are unaware of what I’m posting about, thousands of police officers from across the country are to march through London to show their determination to resist the Government’s unprecedented programme of cuts to police numbers and degradation of officers’ conditions of employment.

Many within the service feel that we are currently being attacked by all angles from the current government in the form of the Hutton, Windsor 1 & 2 and Neyroud reports. Not to mention the 20% cut’s to Policing budgets.

There are far too many issues to be mentioned in my post, but some of the more emotive to officers are;

· Reduction in Police officer pay

· Pay freeze for four years (last increase Sept 2010)

· Direct entry reducing promotion opportunities

· Buy-out of overtime

· Police officers subject to compulsory redundancy (but without any employee rights)

· Officers injured in the line of duty made redundant if unable to conduct ‘front line duties’

· Privatisation of some Policing services


Please see more information here;


https://www.metfed.o...04Fed march.pdf

[ActivistApp]

And here: http://www.spacehija...est/police.html

[Sam Vimes]

Tried to, on nights and can't get the time off. Am gutted and very annoyed.

I just hope others are being positive and proactive about doing something to get voices heard.

[Shikari]

I definately would but I have exams the week after and can't afford the time off as it'll end up being abotu 2 days of my time :/

[Ben.]

As a SC and someone who hopes to get into the regs, I will if I am free.

[ActivistApp]

Looks like I'll be the only one representing ps.com.

Banner suggestions?

[Hades]

I'd have really like to, especially after missing the last one. Unfortunately I'm on a course which I'll be removed from if I miss any days training as I'm already missing one day for the bank Holiday! These days I think it's wise to take all the training you can get, make yourself a bit safer from redundancy!!

[ActivistApp]

Hades - don't worry mate - I'll represent your views.

[Lucas North]

If anyone wants any graphics made for signs / banners / etc then let me know

[DDT87]

Haven't seen any officer from Norfolk on here yet, so can't find a banner saying Norfolk Police lol, you got one or can make one.

Staying on topic now.. yes, I think that if you want to stay in the job, make every effort to get to the march, at this rate we wont have one!!

[SkinSte]

I know of a few people going. I'm on rest days so will be there.

[Kellym82]

Sorry - paid day job takes priority I'm afraid so I won't be there. Good luck to those marching, and hope you have a good day.

[Giraffe]

I start my new job on Monday, which means that I will be getting lots of weekdays off. If this happens to land on a day off then I will be there, but it will be a week or two before I know unfortunately.

To keep it simple, can we start a list of Attendees and Possibles, so that we have a rough idea of how many PS.commers will attend? I'll start it:

Attending:
walesmjc
Activist App
StinSte

Possibly Attending:
Ben.
Giraffe


Just copy and paste it into your post and add your name (or remove it if you can no longer make it).

[kittens09]

Attending:
walesmjc
Activist App
StinSte
Kittens09

Possibly Attending:
Ben.
Giraffe

[Hades]

Hades - don't worry mate - I'll represent your views.

Careful, you might get in trouble if you represent my views too much!

[stamp monkey]

Join the march – Thursday 10^th of May 2012 – are you going?

I haven’t seen much mention of the upcoming Police Federation march at London on Thursday the 10^th of May on the website and as the most visited Police form in the UK, who is going??

I have posted this in ‘general discussion’ to reach a wider audience as the march is open to all serving and retired Police officers, Specials, staff, friends & family and members of the public. In my opinion the basis for the march concerns everyone and is not restricted to ‘regular’s only’ or ‘regular’s zone’.

If you are seeking to join the service in any capacity, then you need to be aware of the issues of concern as they will affect you.

For those who are unaware of what I’m posting about, thousands of police officers from across the country are to march through London to show their determination to resist the Government’s unprecedented programme of cuts to police numbers and degradation of officers’ conditions of employment.

Many within the service feel that we are currently being attacked by all angles from the current government in the form of the Hutton, Windsor 1 & 2 and Neyroud reports. Not to mention the 20% cut’s to Policing budgets.

There are far too many issues to be mentioned in my post, but some of the more emotive to officers are;

· Reduction in Police officer pay

· Pay freeze for four years (last increase Sept 2010)

· Direct entry reducing promotion opportunities

· Buy-out of overtime

· Police officers subject to compulsory redundancy (but without any employee rights)

· Officers injured in the line of duty made redundant if unable to conduct ‘front line duties’

· Privatisation of some Policing services


Please see more information here;


https://www.metfed.o...Fed%20march.pdf

Just found out I am on a R/D that day. See you there!!

Attending:
walesmjc
Activist App
StinSte
Stamp Monkey

Possibly Attending:
Ben.
Giraffe

Edited by stamp monkey, 12 April 2012 - 11:11 PM.

[Sam_McCully]

Didnt hear anything about it if I'm completely honest,

I will be going Think its a must

Sam

[DukeDan]

Will be interested to see how much press coverage it gets. Will the march be policed?

[Sam Vimes]

Will be interested to see how much press coverage it gets. Will the march be policed?

I should think it'd have to be given the numbers of people going... not so much because the bobbies on the march will go on the rampage, but I would think it's an ideal opportunity for various other factions to try and disrupt.

I can't see it getting much media attention to be honest, it'll be played down and any stories that do come out will be along the lines of us being money-grabbing, selfish, gold-plated pensionable nobbers.

[DukeDan]

I can't see it getting much media attention to be honest, it'll be played down and any stories that do come out will be along the lines of us being money-grabbing, selfish, gold-plated pensionable nobbers.

Unfortunately, I agree.

A lot of people (normally young) attend protests for things that sometimes might not affect them directly. But they go to them because they believe in the cause and want to help the people involved. It would be nice if they extended their supprt to the police as well.

[Sam Vimes]

A lot of Police Staff where I am were asked if they'd attend and i'm yet to hear of one saying yes. I understand it's not their problem the attacks on our pay and conditions, but it will be when we're refusing to turn out to their Facebook CADs and the jobs are stacking up.

If our own colleagues won't show support, the general public sure as hell wont!

[Lucas North]

I don't see why this can't be well attended or why it shouldn't get more attention.

I seem to remember a rather large amount of people marching through London a few years back... all wearing white baseball caps

It just needs a bit of a frenzy - The Fed need to be making it more public and *should* send out e-mails through the internal system.

[Lucas North]

Slogan ideas please! I'm going to e-mail The Fed...

Points are given for humour, play-on-words and/or subtle digs at Winsor











All other suggestions welcome too...

[richr]

A lot of Police Staff where I am were asked if they'd attend and i'm yet to hear of one saying yes. I understand it's not their problem the attacks on our pay and conditions, but it will be when we're refusing to turn out to their Facebook CADs and the jobs are stacking up.

I wonder if that might be down to the less-than-enthusiastic response to their strike from their warranted colleagues...

[H0TFUZZ]

Definitely going, and so is most of my PLC class