How to ask for a Speed Awareness course?

user1977

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81991766#Comment_81991766

Yes, they can use the same methods available to any other voter who is also otherwise engaged on polling day (I originally registered for postal voting after getting a council job and suspecting I might be drafted in for electoral duties, though disappointingly never was).

ripofflondon

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81991766#Comment_81991766

3 ways: 1 - if the station they are working in is also their local station then that's obvs easy; or

2 - if the station they are working in is near enough to their local station then they can go there in their lunch break; or

3 - if the station they are working in is too far away from their local station OR if they are the Presiding Officer (like I was) meaning that they can't physically leave the station all day then postal.

ripofflondon

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81991924#Comment_81991924

I am a bit intrigued by this as certainly for the council I work for (a local one in Ldn) you don't wait to get drafted in for an election; they advertise for staff wanted and you must apply.

Interestingly, a Spanish work colleague was telling me that in Spain elections are staffed by members of the public who have been drafted in randomly by being summoned from the Spanish version of the Electoral Roll very much in the same way as jury service in the UK - it is seen as a civic duty. Would have thought that would lead to some of the people doing the job when they didn't want to be, with attendant implications for accuracy etc etc.

user1977

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81994254#Comment_81994254

Well not literally drafted in, but I wasn't initially sure of the process and it seemed there were enough "regulars" available that I didn't get a shift anyway.

ripofflondon

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81994260#Comment_81994260

Am sorry.

I have been doing it since I started there in 1999 and every time I have applied I've got it and they all know me etc etc; I assumed that everyone else who applied would get it also, but obvs I wouldn't know about the %s who DIDN'T get it.

ripofflondon

Hi all

I promised to let you know the outcome of my message to Devon & Cornwall police.

It was as expected, but he did make a point about ensuring consistency across all police forces - fair enough I suppose.

TBH I would have been more surprised if the response had been different but I wanted to be able to tell myself I’d tried.  Nothing ventured, nothing gained, if you don’t ask you don’t get etc etc. 

Thanks all for your input.