Brandane
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- Costa Clyde
Yep; that all sounds very familiar - until I was pensioned off on medical grounds in 2001 (with a pro rata pension before anyone thinks I've been able to put my feet up on the strength of it).My son is a first response officer. He never stops once he is on shift. Whilst dealing with one incident, control are on the phone trying to push him onto the next. He is single manned these days due to cuts. So he spends his shifts driving his transit alone to one emergency after another. He does not know what he is going to find. Violence, wife beaters, dead bodies etc. he has been kicked, punched, verbally abused etc, etc. It's also getting more violent out there. Theresa May has devestated the police force. Where there were once 36 officers on his inner city area there are usually now less than a third of that. One shift he was the only officer available for the whole area!
Police on football match duties are on voluntary overtime. The bill is picked up by the club.
I served during what is probably now referred to as the good old days, but it was a thankless job then and is ten times worse now.