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Potential police recruits- Not happy

Ironic really, they are going to require more when the cuts nd the double dip kicks in.

The Metropolitan Police has informed would-be officers who passed its recruitment stages successfully that their applications have been rescinded.
He said the situation was "soul-destroying" and he partly blamed the government.
He said: "I'm really annoyed with them because I voted Tory as they backed the police, while the Lib Dems said they were going to recruit more police officers."
'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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  • For a second then I thought they were unhappy about having to work..
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  • torontoboy45
    torontoboy45 Posts: 1,064 Forumite
    well spotted stevie. without the usual conspiracy theorising: I can't begin to guess what the met is up to....
  • jonewer
    jonewer Posts: 1,485 Forumite
    They recruited more people than they have vacancies for. Nice little money waster that.
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  • Darnit_2
    Darnit_2 Posts: 359 Forumite
    No public service is safe, no matter what anyone thinks. But there are ways to cut spending without startinmg with cutting officer numbers, but the Met aren't used to having to economise, they have had it easy financially compared to other smaller forces, so it will be a shock for them.
    :D
  • Darnit wrote: »
    No public service is safe, no matter what anyone thinks. But there are ways to cut spending without startinmg with cutting officer numbers, but the Met aren't used to having to economise, they have had it easy financially compared to other smaller forces, so it will be a shock for them.


    No force is supposed to be cutting numbers of actual real police.
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  • Spartacus_Mills
    Spartacus_Mills Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    jonewer wrote: »
    They recruited more people than they have vacancies for. Nice little money waster that.


    Far easier to blame the government than to look at themselves and their incompetent recruitment policies.
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    "I could play all day in my Green Cathedral".
    "The Centuries that divide me shall be undone."
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  • Spartacus_Mills
    Spartacus_Mills Posts: 5,545 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Ironic really, they are going to require more when the cuts nd the double dip kicks in.


    Where is this actually from. Can you please provide a link ?
    "There's no such thing as Macra. Macra do not exist."
    "I could play all day in my Green Cathedral".
    "The Centuries that divide me shall be undone."
    "A dream? Really, Doctor. You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next. "
  • StevieJ
    StevieJ Posts: 20,174 Forumite
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    Where is this actually from. Can you please provide a link ?


    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/10277831.stm
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Wheezy_2
    Wheezy_2 Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    StevieJ wrote: »
    He said: "I'm really annoyed with them because I voted Tory as they backed the police, while the Lib Dems said they were going to recruit more police officers."

    :rotfl: wow...he actually believed anything the tories and libdem said pre election :rotfl:


    As the famous philosopher, George W. Bush once said: "Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. It fool me. We can't get fooled again."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ux3DKxxFoM
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    No force is supposed to be cutting numbers of actual real police.

    I'm guessing that they aren't cutting the numbers of actual real police, they are just not hiring the extra officers Labour announced prior to the election.
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