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Paul Deller

Chairmans View

Paul Deller - 11th January 2012

I was not at all surprised by the decisions of the Police Arbitration Tribunal (PAT) published this week.

It would seem that those who sat on the tribunal perhaps shared the same ideology as the Government, deciding that it was not about saving money and stopping the country from going bankrupt but is about the Modernisation of Police Pay and Conditions.

We have long been heralded as the last un-reformed public service something that is far from the truth, there has been some sort of change or modernisation happening to Policing for as long as I can remember.

During the disorder in the summer Police officers were called upon to work very long hours in the most testing of times to restore order to the streets, which we did to acclaim from the Public we serve, however the Government seem to have hastily forgotten this.

We must now wait and see if the Home Secretary decides to fully implement the PAT decision or not, I will not hold my breath and would expect her to take the decision in full, to do anything else would break the Tory party promise that they made before the election. Read more