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HAVE YOUR SAY

SHOULD POLICE BE ALLOWED TO HAVE SECOND JOBS?

Are officers endangering the public by moonlighting for extra cash?

Friday August 15,2008

By David Pilditch

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

Campaigners spoke out after it was revealed a website has been set up for officers to advertise their own businesses.

While Britain buckles under violent crime, thousands of officers are moonlighting to earn extra cash.

Some are working as plumbers, bricklayers, plasterers and electricians.

Others have been holding down jobs as beauty therapists, nurses, football referees and photographers.

There are even some registered as DJs, musicians and clowns. One Metropolitan Police officer drives a hearse in his spare time.

Critics say this is leading to hundreds calling in sick which it emerged last month is costing taxpayers £1million a week.

* Do YOU think police should be allowed to have second jobs?

* Should officers be moonlighting to earn extra cash while Britain BUCKLES under VIOLENT CRIME?

*** HAVE YOUR SAY NOW! ***

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