Re: Why should the British cop get a big pension


"joe" <joeparkinchinese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Uno Hoo! wrote:
>
>> > You think you could have earned "a lot of money" in the private
>> > sector? Excuse me while I laugh.
>>
>> All of my friends and relatives work in the private sector. Some of
>> them are earning more than double what a constable earns - and some
>> of them couldn't hold down the job of a constable for love nor money!
>> One of those relatives (who has now retired - at 56!) worked for a
>> computer company in 'corporate sales'. It was his job to visit
>> companies and recommend a computer system for them. He would then try
>> and demonstrate that his company's products were better than the
>> competition and persuade them to buy or preferably lease a system. I
>> was astonished at what he admitted was a doddle of a job. He worked
>> from home and only went into the office 2 or 3 times a month. On some
>> days, if he had no meetings lined up, he just stayed at home and
>> 'caught up on paperwork' - which actually meant anything he wanted to
>> do. He did not have to acquire 'leads' - they were provided by the
>> marketing dept. He was provided with a large Volvo company car and
>> also with a company desk-top pc and lap-top to carry around with him.
>> His only 'further studying' requirements were to keep up to date with
>> his company's and rival products (spoon fed to him). For this
>> 'demanding' role he was paid a little over double what I was earning
>> as an Inspector. If he achieved annual sales targets (which he
>> admitted were not particularly demanding) then he received a handsome
>> annual bonus - which usually paid for an exotic holiday each year for
>> him and his wife. He is not overly intelligent, has an appalling
>> grasp of world affairs outside of computing, and it astonishes me,
>> frankly, that he could earn so much for doing so little! Yes - I
>> think I could have earned more money in the private sector - although
>> I would have foregone job security which was important to me.
>
> I can understand why you are ticked off with your friend, but at least
> he did not have a get out of jail free card,

And you honestly believe that the average bobby has that?

and he did have to learn
> computers, which is harder than the normal plod grunt learning curve.

I disagree entirely. The amount of information a police recruit has to
master is enormous. Traffic law, criminal law, powers of arrest, 'general
law' - such as laws on poaching, protected birds, explosives, etc. PACE, how
to deal with sudden deaths, how to deal with a road accident, investigative
skills, interviewing skills, how to breathalyse someone, self defence, how
to effectively get a prisoner into handcuffs, how to properly use CS spray
and side handled batons, how to drive to police standards, how to handle a
vehicle pursuit, how to deal with 'scene of crime', how to give evidence in
a court, how to deal with a major incident such as an aircraft crash or
major toxic gas leak. How to deliver a 'sudden death message', how best to
deal with ethnic minorities and gays, how to give first aid. All of the
above relates purely to a 'general duties' bobby. Of course if you
specialise in Traffic or CID there is whole lot more to learn.
Frankly I could go on and on and on and on. The amount of information that
my friend had to absorb was minute compared to the information that the
average bobby has to take in.

Kev


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