Well, Jim on here is an old Lincs copper and I think it’s safe and not too unfair to say that apart from a few Slavs getting a kicking from the local Boston branch of the EDL, and a bit of D&D in Skeggy in the summer, Lincs is one of the quieter counties in the UK, with an ageing population and few really large troublesome conurbations.
This made it ideal for our masters to try an experiment.
All support staff in February received an E-mail from the chief constable informing them that as of March 31st 2012, they were no longer part of the Police service but employed by G4S.
As you can no doubt imagine, this caused some consternation and frantic soul searching but in the true spirit of the process, they were also informed that any re-application to join the Police (in another role for instance) by the transferred staff would be blocked—so they were f*ck*d off twice.
Support staff include of course, admin, drivers, front desk, custody, ID, control room and quite a host of other indirect Police roles.
This little act supposedly saved several million quid.
And no, I’m not a copper and never have been.
A very dear friend was though, when she left the WRAF back in the day—she pulled on a Police uniform—she’s now one of the G4S transferees.
My own view on the filf is that once the brown shirts were wound up, then if your idea of a good day out was to pull on a pair of size nines and go and give a good kicking to someone who couldn’t fight back, then plod was the only viable alternative.
However, seeing how hard working and how dedicated she and many of her colleagues actually are, my argument sometimes falls to the floor.
It does make joint viewing of the News at Ten ‘interesting’ though—we agree to differ.
I don’t think it’s wrong to say that morale is low.
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