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Should police be allowed to have second jobs?

BRITAIN’S police officers are endangering the public by taking second jobs in record numbers, it was claimed yesterday.

DEAR OH DEAR....

27.08.08, 9:29pm

Second jobs?? they cant be doing the first one properly if they have time for a second job...Part-time policing thats all britain needs for its 'national security'

• Posted by: cocklesandeels • Report Comment

SARA

18.08.08, 11:51pm

Gene is still around in his own way. Oh he's more PC than Hewlett Packard and that's the problem. He'e more intent these days on hiring people based on their skin colour and shafting his bretheren. But he's alive all the same.

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

SARACEN

18.08.08, 4:15pm

Where have you been,who is it preventing the police from doing their job, replacing them with rookies keeping the trained police off the streets,it's the same ones who have been undermining them since 1997 are to blame.

• Posted by: Maggie • Report Comment

POLICE WITH SECOND JOBS!

18.08.08, 2:57pm

Let them do the first one properly first. That means not pestering decent people with jobsworth big brother 'breaches of the law', but knicking the real criminals. Where is Gene Hunt when you need him?

• Posted by: saracen • Report Comment

BISTED AND TWITTER

17.08.08, 11:17pm

Thank goodness. For a moment there i thought you were implying i was bitter and twisted but in fact you were infering, through the medium of Julio et Gallio, that in fact i'm knock-off gravy and a wren (keep your mind from the navy) Phew!


Let's face it the police last time around were not asking for a pay rise. The requested remuneration was in fact .5% below inflation. They were asking to be less less well off in the following fiscal year.

But as it goes i have no real arguement with MP's propsed 9.5% pay raise this year (a 4.5% increase in real terms) What with their £23k funding for a second home, £130k expenses claim on top of their paltry £65k wage who could begrudge them?

Remove all secondary incomes from all emergency services. After all, they all have the ability to manipulate the situation on their given primary employment.

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

FORUMS AND OPINIONS, ACCURATE FACTS?.

17.08.08, 9:31pm

Not really. Some comments are so fatuous I can't believe why or how the obvious intelligence is so wasted. Ruhe, you are so bisted and twitter. Go beyond the Churchill era and study the world's societies, all of them full of hatreds, exploitation and genocide. And the further back one goes the worse it gets. Untill you will get the times where, as I've said before, strangers were eaten. I do not think the police should be allowed to have second jobs, because they will mention it, and become vulnarable to corruption and bias. Their job is difficult enough with the restraints and restrictions that polititians have thrust opon them. Give them more freedom to operate without the restraining paperwork and political correctness twaddle. Get trusted "civvies" to take over the red tape paperwork and you will see a big imrovement in their efficiency.

• Posted by: bluenote • Report Comment

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MAGGIE

17.08.08, 11:36am

We are all barrack room lawyers and armchair generals on here because this is a forum to get things off our chests. Some of the posters here are experts in their own fields and they do give "positive feedback," to use trendy words. I think it is a wonderful British thing to sit around and go Hurrumph Hurrumph! However, when up against the wall it's, "Stiffen the sinews...etc." time and we take action.

By the way Brussels old boy, if Churchill had not declared war on the Nazis, you and I would not be alive today to type into this forum.

• Posted by: Harveymiff • Report Comment

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

17.08.08, 10:55am

Hi

If bin men, doctors, soical workers, nurses, etc are allowed second jobs, then cop hane no valid easonnot to do 2nd jobs!!! hese people work shift paterns where they do work seveal dys on & then several days off. So they are earning cash legally, so why not!!!!!!!

Its etter than claiming handouts hilst beng fit to work!!!!!

ed like to rent a cop - any links?????????

Sincere regards

Lucian Deville :)

• Posted by: LucianDeville • Report Comment

AND

17.08.08, 1:49am

It's gone again. Either the blow-dart full of sedatives caught him in the neck of the lures of other web-sites was just too strong.

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

JEW HATER?

17.08.08, 1:21am

All the credentials are there. Are you Ken Livingstone? It would explain the bitterness- the hypocracy of stating that you cannot serve more than one term due to the complacent/ corruption arguement then still find you're in the running three terms later.

Was it not the appeaser from the left wing that nearly cost the people of Great Britain their lives and their freedom? And was it not a REFORMED socialist who brought us through our darkest hour? You'll find that it was.

Just as Gordon has indebted us to fighting an ILLEGAL war (£6bn and counting, mind you much less than it costs to prop up a poorly managed private firm) so did Chruchill. Was there any alternative when your Labour predecessors had ignored the threat of another world war because of their cowardice and as such, left us so far behind in the re-armourment stakes. Don't answer that, the rhetorical effect is there for the reader to reflect upon in their own mind.

Now back to the present day. Before we went backwards? You mean the days when pensioners were in poverty, youths had little prospect and abundant disaffection? When (in the pre-Flemming) era of medicinal care that you were as likely to die from an ingrown toe-nail as you were a hospital super-bug? Where education meant that we looked at record levels of child illetracy in light of 'record' a grades in examinations? Where A+E departments didn't keep people in ambulances in a bid to mask the wait in their department? Where pensioners were cast into poverty through the systematic destruction of their private pension and index linked public pension? Where record numbers of 18-24 year olds were economically inactive? To when we had at least some sort of manufacturing base? To when we weren't £600bn in the red?

Problem is Brussels this wasn't 100 years ago. It was a mere 11. Go figure. I know you won't, not when there's an interweb land with sexually active children to puruse.


17.08.08, 1:07am

I'm interested in children with v.d.' ? says more about you. I was talking about your good old days. When were these times 'before' we were going backwards? Would that be when Churchil declared war on Germany and therefore destroyed our 'glorious' British Empire and indebted us to the Americans for the next 50 years?

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

NIGHT NIGHT

17.08.08, 1:12am

anyway, off to bed have to work tomorrow. Someone has to pay for old big ears to get his shoe laces tied. and I'm sue it's not going to be ruhe.

• Posted by: brusselssprouts • Report Comment

RUHE CAN YOU EVER ANSWER A QUESTION?

17.08.08, 1:07am

I'm interested in children with v.d.' ? says more about you. I was talking about your good old days. When were these times 'before' we were going backwards? Would that be when Churchil declared war on Germany and therefore destroyed our 'glorious' British Empire and indebted us to the Americans for the next 50 years?

• Posted by: brusselssprouts • Report Comment

ALTHOUGH

17.08.08, 12:45am

The good times were the days before we were going backwards despite record tax receipts and borrowing based upon future growth that was never likely to exist. Poor old Gordon, if only he'd have known his dream would turn from the Brown bounce to the Brown pat.


You seem to be awfully interested in children with VD Brussels, is there something that the authorities should know?

• Posted by: ruhe03 • Report Comment

GET BACK TO PLANET EARTH RUHE

17.08.08, 12:36am

'the people that bothered to vote'? why they do that then? satisfaction perhaps? are you pooh, poohing democracy? calling for proportional representation? [i hope so] if they were not happy why didn't they vote for change?

When were the good times for you matey? 100 years ago maybe, when 2/3 of the little children being treated in Great Ormond Street Hospital were being treated for venereal disease? What a wonderful world that was. We were all English.

• Posted by: brusselssprouts • Report Comment

MAGGIE...

16.08.08, 8:38pm

And that sums up the whole problem - not one of the mainstream political parties have a leader that is seen to be capable of standing up and representing Britain.

I know not everybody liked Margaret Thatcher but she stood up and fought for what she believed in. She was afforded respect on the grounds she earned respect.

But going back to the article in question. Why should a police officer not be allowed to have a second job providing in doesn't involve a conflict of interest with their primary employment?

• Posted by: Fisherman • Report Comment

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