Potential police recruits- Not happy

MIKE770

Problem these days they have Andrex so soft,, our day we had Izal rough, so they are too soft and cannot take it. Mention Thunderbox they would look up to the sky from posh Bogs. Like any situation always cut backs if you persist on large wage packets, why we do not see you on the beat .

JasonLVC

OP's quote :-

"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."

Appears to be a statement from an individual recruit who wished to remain anonymous. So basically a disgruntled candidate with an axe to grind and with no balls to put their name to it. So not biased in anyway of course.;)

The BBC article ends with ....."A spokesman for the 33,000-strong Met said: "We are just not accepting further applications at this time. This is because there are many fewer officers leaving the MPS than expected." - so basically they froze recruitment due to less staff turnover and so are letting applicants know they might as well seek employment elsewhere in the short-term. What's wrong with that exactly?

Digging a little deeper, we get a Guardian article from February 2010 :-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/03/boris-cuts-police-london

Which explains the Met plans to cull 455 police jobs over the next 4 years whilst increasing special constables/PCSO's by 2,690 over the same period - so more police, not less (just cheap fake ones).

So there's no crisis, crime will not go up as there will actually be MORE 'police' on the streets, Met is stil recruiting but cannot stop people applying for jobs with them that dont exist.

StevieJ

MIKE770 wrote: »

Problem these days they have Andrex so soft,, our day we had Izal rough, so they are too soft and cannot take it. Mention Thunderbox they would look up to the sky from posh Bogs. Like any situation always cut backs if you persist on large wage packets, why we do not see you on the beat .

Steve Marriott RIP Oh you meant an Aussie WC

davilown

jonewer wrote: »

They recruited more people than they have vacancies for. Nice little money waster that.

Yes they need to - but the I would hazard a guess that they didn't lose as many recruits during training than they expected to.

amcluesent

>No force is supposed to be cutting numbers of actual real police<

We're about 10 years into a strategy of removing the 'old skool' copper with T&Cs to go after 30 years in with full pension plus all the O/T & perks.

The cheapy PCSO are getting more and more powers and numbers increasing. Civilians are doing more and more paper work, call handling, investigations, interviews, forensics etc.

I'd say we're no more than two years away from offshoring 999 call handlers. Data processing for fixed-penalties etc. will be off-shored too, they just need to fiddle the legislation.

jonewer

davilown wrote: »

Yes they need to - but the I would hazard a guess that they didn't lose as many recruits during training than they expected to.

No, they just recruited too many candidates. Drop outs during training are very rare. The selection process is quite rigorous and the training is not exactly the SAS.

brit1234

davilown wrote: »

Yes they need to - but the I would hazard a guess that they didn't lose as many recruits during training than they expected to.

Standards have been massively dropped in the last seven years. Fitness tests have been abandoned or lowered to make them worthless. Knowledge tests have been reduced to a fraction during training school and in probabtion.

kabayiri

amcluesent wrote: »

The cheapy PCSO are getting more and more powers and numbers increasing. Civilians are doing more and more paper work, call handling, investigations, interviews, forensics etc.

I'd say we're no more than two years away from offshoring 999 call handlers. Data processing for fixed-penalties etc. will be off-shored too, they just need to fiddle the legislation.

I bet some 'consultancy' has looked at the tiered support models ever present in contact centres these days and thought 'hey, that could work in a modified form for the Police'. (Except they would have dressed it up and charged a packet for the 'research')

A tiered model could work I guess with more PCSOs acting as 1st line response / presence.

The move to outsource back office data offshore gives me the wibbles though. I had to investigate a 'data loss/breach' a couple of years ago. We managed to trace it back to the Mombai call centre, but it was extremely difficult to get our questions answered.