Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Subtle difference .... The Ambulance and Fire "services" are both allowed to strike if they wish, to try and improve their working conditions. The Police don't have that right. Their conditions of service have been altered over the last few years to the point that they bear no resemblance to what they were just a decade ago. That includes cuts in manpower, and don't believe "statistics" (@glenn forger ) about there being plenty of Officers on the street. Utter nonsense in reality.If the Fire and Ambulance "service" were as incompetent, unreliable and innofective as the Police, we would be in one hell of a mess!!
I have friends in the Police, and they are more concerned about the level of service than any member of the public ever will be. After all, they are the ones who get stressed when they are unable to provide the level of service expected by the public. They are the ones who have to stand and take the abuse from the public when that same public don't like the level of service which they are receiving. They are the ones expected to do a job that should be done by five people.
As individuals, most Officers give 100% effort to try and do their best for the public, but as an organisation they fall down somewhat. That is not the fault of individual Officers. Blame the people in charge of the purse strings who have cut funds to the point that the Police cannot possibly do the job they are expected to do. Cut them some slack; you get what you pay for after all.