The Policeman's Blog

Thanks for the vid.
I work in Cambridge and I am pretty sure I have interviewed this casualty or his mate at least. Honestly, there are loads of them here.
 

I've spent some time reading through comments on these blogs and I see the expected comments from bloggers who are clearly affected by this charade and then the odd one along the lines of 'Well you knew what to expect when you joined blah blah, retch etc' It makes me wonder if these idiots actually know what the older bobbies signed up for.
I'm just about through the other end of this interminably unfulfilling occupation but I would lend some support to an action in the ECHR to see if old timers such as me could go some way to recouping allowances that the old toothless tiger (sorry Federation) has thrown away over the years. I was told , in 1980, that, if I signed up to the Conditions of Service, I could expect;
Rent allowance or Police housing, medical expenses, dental expenses, optical expenses, plain clothes allowance if I was working out of uniform, uniform cleaning expenses if I wasn't. There will be many more but you get the point.
Given that we have lost all of the above allowances to successive Governments or that they have been 'bargained' away by our Federation imbeciles over the years during fights for the index linked pay rises which Sir Edmund-Davies recommended we should receive automatically, perhaps we could address our pay shortfalls by renegotiating some of them. I would also look to the Federation to provide some form of reassurance that they can actually safeguard their members interests before taking 18 pounds a month from them...yeah right, how else will they get to Brighton each year.
How many reps would attend the Federation conference if they had to pay for their stay I wonder.

Still DC, you seem to have got it right. My Uncle tells me what costs a pound in the U.K. costs a buck in Canada...looking at those payscales and the public holiday rate,(X3,'kinell!),) you appear to have jumped at just the right time.
Good luck to you mate.
 

Not true. I'm Canadian and I laughed. Two teenagers 'conversing', a universal sound if ever there was one.
 

Another Canadian here who thought that video was hilarious.

You'll find that many Cdns. love British humour (well, maybe not the ones you'll be seeing on a daily basis!)
 

Been in Calgary a month now & still can't find decent bacon or mint sauce (as we know it).
Any ideas DC?

Ex plod
 

Ex Plod:

Do you mean mint sauce or mint jelly?

When my mum runs out, she makes her own mint sauce: fresh picked mint leaves finely chopped, malt vinegar and sugar.
 

There two kinds of bacon here,streaky side bacon, and Canadian back bacon, The streaky usually comes in 500g packackes, and the back bacon, which is almost fat free comes in chunks or packages, you can get it at Superstore, but its close to $13 a Kg.Streaky can be had at the moment for $2 at some places.Theres no such thing here as green bacon or gammon.,unless you make your own . Superstore also has imported mint sauce, from Jollye Olde Englande.In reply to Anonymous, all Canadian police forces except the RCMP work under contract, negotiable usually every two to thereeyears which deal with working conditions, pay scales,pensions, benefits,promotions, etc. It is rare to lose anything once it is in the contract, so things generally improve year by year. By the way, anyone thinking of coming here and joining the RCMP, think again.