Whining Civvie Coppers

[penfold93]

Cannot believe the outcry over the fact that some police had to stay in these horrific conditions for a couple of days!

Cannot remember the outcry when we were drafted in for the olympics with some staying in much worse for much longer.

If they want to save money then stop forking out for hotels for these people and get a reality check.

In some news reports these conditions were described as like 'refugee camps'. They've obviously never been to a refugee camp.

Rant over

 

[Kryten]

Cannot believe the outcry over the fact that some police had to stay in these horrific conditions for a couple of days!

Cannot remember the outcry when we were drafted in for the olympics with some staying in much worse for much longer.

If they want to save money then stop forking out for hotels for these people and get a reality check.

In some news reports these conditions were described as like 'refugee camps'. They've obviously never been to a refugee camp.

Rant over

Completely agree. Perhaps Servicemen and women should post pictures online of some of the accommodation they have had to stay in over the years and then ask what the Police are moaning about...I've got some choice pics of the hangar at Basrah Airport that would be a good starter for 10 and I am sure that there were places that were far worse than that..

 

[Downsizer]

I saw this yesterday and was torn to be honest....

Yes I've stayed in much worse, and for much longer, but for me they aren't in the Armed Forces where you expect that kind of environment and they are in the UK, not the 'Stan....

So I'm undecided....

 

[penfold93]

I saw this yesterday and was torn to be honest....

Yes I've stayed in much worse, and for much longer, but for me they aren't in the Armed Forces where you expect that kind of environment and they are in the UK, not the 'Stan....

So I'm undecided....

Thing is mate, my Olympics example stands guys and girls were in sh1t conditions for weeks, when we help out with floods, fireman strikes etc this is the accommodation we get in the UK nothing to do with OOA

 

[Dan_Brown]

I'm 100% behind the civvy coppers - why should they have to live in a gymnasium with a 5 toilets for 300 people? They are human beings at the end of the day and prisoners are treated better than what they were expected to live in.

And the argument that you had it worse at the Olympics or we had it worse elsewhere doesn't hold water either, the difference being is that someone raised their head above the parapet and chose to do something about it in stead of just getting on with it and accepting the **** conditions.

Maybe if we had more people not frightened of damaging their career the lads and lasses of the military will get better conditions too.

Further, from what i have read is the coppers did not go into hotels, they were provided accomm at a mil base in Colchester (not sure what would be worse tbh!). However, i did hear that the persons responsible for publishing the images of the conditions are to be hunted and disciplined.

 

[Downsizer]

However, i did hear that the persons responsible for publishing the images of the conditions are to be hunted and disciplined.

That doesn't surprise me in the least.

 

[muttywhitedog]

However, i did hear that the persons responsible for publishing the images of the conditions are to be hunted and disciplined.

Typical Senior Officer mode - Forget about the issue that caused it to be leaked and concentrate on the leak. The issue isn't an issue if it is kept hidden away.

 

[Gonterseed]

I remember the Miners Strike back in the dim and distant 1980's. Talking to some Mod Plods who were drafted in. They were sleeping in a Bellman Hangar and being paid handsomely for doing so.

Don't recall any complaints from them.

 

[GD on Wheels]

In the good old days many a copper were ex army. So they were used to living in crap conditions. A different breed nowadays.

 

[busby1971]

In the good old days many a copper were ex army. So they were used to living in crap conditions. A different breed nowadays.

For operations or in an emergency then yep bedding down in a gym is acceptable, for normal planned activities, people shouldn’t have to put up with this, police or forces.


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[justintime129]

Imagining having to give up you days off holidays to go and guard an orange man/child while he plays golf with his millionaire buddies.

 

[rest have risen above me]

Imagining having to give up you days off holidays to go and guard an orange man/child while he plays golf with his millionaire buddies.

That'll be us soon, but we won't be guarding him, we'll be invading whichever middle east state he's having a pop at.

 

[muttywhitedog]

If Trump's visit to Scotland is a Private one, why is he not funding the cost of policing?

 

[ninjarabbi]

That'll be us soon, but we won't be guarding him, we'll be invading whichever middle east state he's having a pop at.

Which will make him just the same as the other American Presidents then won’t it! DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[Was Baldrick]

If Trump's visit to Scotland is a Private one, why is he not funding the cost of policing?

Our Coppers are there to protect the demonstrators from him (US Secret Service) as I am sure if one of them gets too close to him, that they would pop a cap in their arse. To quote our colonial cousins.

 

[justintime129]

If Trump's visit to Scotland is a Private one, why is he not funding the cost of policing?

You would have thought so

 

[penfold93]

I wonder how much overtime they got paid to spend a couple of nights 'living like refugees' I cannot remember getting loads of extra dosh for doing the Royal Tournament for a month or so and I am pretty sure all those that supported the floods never got overtime!

 

[terence]

I wonder how much overtime they got paid to spend a couple of nights 'living like refugees' I cannot remember getting loads of extra dosh for doing the Royal Tournament for a month or so and I am pretty sure all those that supported the floods never got overtime!

my memories of playing in the Royal Tournament in 1966 were the salad cream and pea sandwiches supplied by the army,,,,....yuk

 

[Gonterseed]

I wonder how much overtime they got paid to spend a couple of nights 'living like refugees' I cannot remember getting loads of extra dosh for doing the Royal Tournament for a month or so and I am pretty sure all those that supported the floods never got overtime!

If it's the same as back in the miners strike they will have a tax-free, un-receipted "rates" allowance of a Superintendent (as that was the highest rank present). They will also be paid from the time they wake up to the time they get their heads down regardless of breaks, meal-times etc...

 

[Stevienics]

my memories of playing in the Royal Tournament in 1966 were the salad cream and pea sandwiches supplied by the army,,,,....yuk

50p a day in 1983, triple bunk beds and sleeping bags in a dusty upstairs loft under the seating and utterly awful food.