Our Aim…
…is to protect and improve the welfare and rights of the Inspecting ranks, primarily within the MPS promoting their skills and development to enhance the efficiency of the MPS.
Home Secretary Ratifies PAT
The Home Secretary made the following statement regarding ratifying the PAT about Police Remuneration and Conditions. It provides the Government’s response to the Police Arbitration Tribunal’s findings on the recommendations in the Part 1 report of Tom Winsor’s Independent Review of Police Officer and Staff Remuneration and Conditions and the consultation on the proposed increase in pension contributions for police officers. Both issues have the potential to affect police officer remuneration and so the Government has considered them in the round. The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Theresa May): On 30 March 2011 I laid a statement to respond to Tom Winsor’s Part 1 Report of the review of remuneration and conditions of service for police officers and… Read More…
Keep Calm and Carry on
It’s been ten days since the PAT announced its judgement on the recommendations contained within Winsor One, yet we still await news from the Home Office as to whether the Home Secretary plans to ratify it. The PAT is part of the Police Negotiating Board (PNB) process and both we (the Staff Side) and the Official Side entered it knowing that the decision of the PAT is binding on us both. To try and renege on that position now would be viewed as petulance on our part because the decision hasn’t gone our way and also deal a fatal blow to the PNB process, something we have long fought to preserve for fear of having imposed upon us a far less independent… Read More…
Over £4m unclaimed CRTP for Federated ranks in MPS
We would like to draw all our members attention to JEC Circular 112-11. The MPS has recently provided the Federation with data suggesting that over 3,000 MPS officers who are eligible for CRTP have not applied. Within this number 46% of Chief Inspectors – 174 people – and 30% of Inspectors – 353 people are not rightfully claiming this pensionable payment. Members are reminded to check whether they are eligible as the payments will only be made upon application. The payments are only paid from the date of application or qualification, whichever is the later, and no retrospective payments can or will be made. At a time when everyone is struggling financially this seems to be a dreadful waste of… Read More…
