Taken, I have no doubt that you are good at your job and dedicated to it too. Police terms and conditions state that I and my colleagues have no right to strike, it's an offence, we can be told where to live and who we live with, we can go into work one day and be told we are working from another station the next. I've only been allowed to book 3 days leave over the whole summer due to the Olympics, Paralympics, jubilee, horse racing and music festivals.
I've been punched repeatedly, ran over, kicked in the belly causing loss of a child, my house has been targeted and I've been abused in the street, my children have been verbally abused at school. I've been hassled at a family funeral because someone got a traffic ticket somewhere. I've also been threatened with knives, removed people from burning vehicles before fire got there twice, both times the people involved have been so out of it they have gone for me, I work in a rural patch normally single crewed, my back up is often 25 minutes away. I volunteer to give people the news their loved ones have died. I love my job, I hate how we are being portrayed in the media and on some of these forums at the moment. I'm sorry that your pension isn't as good as it should be, I think everyone's should be better but this month my payments to my pension are going up £100 PCM plus on top of that this year I lose a payment of £2000 I have been getting annually. That is £3200 loss this year in my pocket on top of my pay being frozen.
All of the Public sector is being shafted at the moment, I couldn't do any other role but mine and I'm sure other people feel the same way