Being a police officer is a tough gig..
Your personal life is severely restricted. The scrutiny you are under at work is intense. It is no longer the case that if you act in good faith you will be protected by the system.
Officers no longer have any confidence that they will be treated fairly or impartialy if subjected to a gross misconduct process.
The wages are poor, there is no fair pay mechanism to agree pay increases and you have no industrial rights.
30 year pensions have been axed and so there's no longer the incentive to remain in the Job to achieve early retirement.
There's no guarantee that you will finish a shift without being assaulted, injured or worse.
You are expected to deal with criminals armed with knives with nothing more than a small stick, PAVA spray and sometimes a Taser - which are only around 60% effective anyway (and only a couple of days of officer safety training per year).
You are constantly criticised in the media and expected to perform to an unrealistic robotic standard - expressing no human emotion, irrespective of the situation you are confronted with.
It is of no surprise to me that the attrition rates are as they are.
#JobLikeNoOther
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Police Officers in Western Australia have had enough of exactly the same problems faced by Officers in the UK.
Their union issued this, a hard-hitting warning to the Government...
@Protect_ServeUK This isn’t new, it happens all the time. Happened to me in 2015, was told three days before my gross misconduct board that the ipcc had said no case to answer. It won’t change