Working Time
The IBB is committed to ensuring that our members are not abused by having to work excessive hours. Our members and the Service have a legal obligation not to exceed the Working Time Limit currently set at an average of 48 hours per week over a reference period of 17 weeks. We negotiated with the MPS an SOP which we advise that ALL managers and members which should strictly adhere to. This agreement is reproduced in full at the attached link Guidance on Working Hours for Inspecting Ranks Despite this agreement we have evidence of continued abuses by a number of Operational Command Unit (OCU) Commanders, many of these are routinely breaking the law. We regularly challenge the Commissioner to… Read More…
Promotion
Without doubt ‘Promotion’ is the single biggest issue of concern for our members and as a consequence we believe that wherever possible and appropriate we should seek to be as involved in formulating future MPS promotion processes. We achieve this primarily through our participation with the other Federated rank representatives on the Police Promotion Systems Steering Group but also by raising them directly with HR5, the MPS Progression & Selection team and indeed the Director of HR himself, any abusive trends or practices that we believe are detrimental to a fair and open process. We have most recently taken this path in respect of the Emerging Leaders Programme developed by the MPS Talent Management Unit. In 2007 as a result of a number of discredited promotion… Read More…
More / Your views
This page is where we invite you, our members and readers to comment upon the web site’s content and ask any questions on policing/Federation issues you may have. As you can appreciate being a public site some editorial control is needed to protect the IBB. So we cannot grant free writing access but I will respond to any comments sent to myopinion@polfed.org for inclusion and will try to use as many as possible on this page. We have had perhaps unsurprisingly our biggest ever response to a front page article with our latest post entitled ‘ Your opportunity to become a Midwitch Cuckoo’ Here are a selection of those responses to date; A TP Chief Inspector from the North West… Read More…
Organisational Resilience
Policing budgets have been diminishing year on year for some considerable time and there seems little prospect of this trend abating. Indeed the situation is only likely to get worse as attempts are made by the new government to reign in public spending. It is almost inevitable that this will impact on police officer numbers, and the inspecting ranks will be affected as badly as any other. We keep hearing form a variety of sources the phrase ‘More for Less’ our fear is that this really means ‘More work for Less officers’. There needs to be an acceptance that if funding is cut then inevitably less can be achieved and a reasoned debate needs to be had on what the… Read More…
Olympics
We continue to closely monitor the increasingly regular discussions between the Service and our representatives on both a local and National level with regard the policing challenges presented by the London 2012 Olympics. Our Chairman Geoff Stuttaford is an integral part of the PFEW Olympics ‘team’ and he provides us with fast time first hand information as to how the plans will affect our ranks. We are concerned at what we perceive to be dissatisfaction on the part of the ‘official’ side regarding the so called ‘Hertfordshire agreement’, whereby officers working outside their force area are compensated at a pre agreed rate. This we believe may be an insight into their thinking on the topic of ‘Held on Reserve’ a… Read More…
Work/Life balance
The ever increasing demands being placed on a reducing number of officers within the inspecting ranks have long been matters of concern for both us and our colleagues across the country. Indeed ‘Resilience’ it has been the overarching topic of discussion at several recent Inspectors Central Conferences. We have long suspected that there are too few of us available to do the work demanded. This has resulted in many of our members regularly working excessive hours without the opportunity to take appropriate periods of compensatory rest. Large numbers of unused annual leave and rest days are being routinely accumulated with no realistic prospect of taking them before their currency expires. All this means that officers are unable to achieve a… Read More…
