Not what you are thinking where we get a bonus for not going sick......
It's our policy soon that we could be attending 100% of calls into the police.
We currently attend around 30% and are run ragged!
Now they want attendance if the caller asks for it rather than if it was justified.
With no increase in staffing numbers.
I see trouble ahead.
I think the police is coming full curcle again on its 5 year turn around. You never know they may disband departments to staff shift (like they did 3 years ago).
John the cynical
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
All Change
My last post on here was a tad negative.
Partly because i was having a bit of a mare having moved off a reactive shift onto a neighbourhood department and leaving the "security" of my shift who i had worked with for a number of years.
Quite a daunting thing really as it was the first time in my career i had left a bloody good team of people both personally and professionally with probably one of the best skippers i have worked with.
The complaint was resolved and i was basically cleared of any wrong doing. This was good for me as i suddenly realised how many people i have worked with over the years came out and supported me. I kept my head down and got on with the job and let the system do it's job as i knew regardless of the rumours i had done nothing wrong.
Not too long after the incident, i received a phone call, offering me a skippers role on the department which i obviously took and soon took on an acting rank.
This was quite weird for me as for some reason alot of people who i would not normally have access to became available to me. The amount of support was also quite a change and the higher ranks talked to me on a level rather than as a PC.
Needless to say i had a job to do and set about doing that job.
I have never been one for hiding in corners and knew although i will eventually go back to being a PC i was in rank and needed to be a sergeant. This meant some unpopular decisions which i hope wont be held against me when i am back to PC.
But it seems to be working, things changed and the department is now working as a team rather than a fragmented single existence for most of the officers.
Coming off a shift where teamwork is important to a department where it appeared that it was a individual effort rather than team was strange. And i wanted to build a team of reliable officers who i could trust.
And after about a month or so, is starting to take shape.
Only for me to leave sometime in the very near future.
It seems that my work has not gone unnoticed. Although i feel that i am just doing my job, others feel im doing more than that.
I will soon be off to shift again.
Not as a PC but as a shift skipper where i will hopefully have a team of officers to work with. Well depending on how many they want to abstract for other departments, annual leave etc!.
This will be interesting for me, i think i will try and get them working the same as my old shift, whether that works is another story!
Also if you remember i applied for roads policing for the second time.
Well i passed paper sift and have recently sat a board for the role where i hope i will get in.
Boards are strange things, in roads policing there are alot of things you need to read up on which took a great number of hours, only to briefly cover topics in a 30 minute interview.
Hopefully i did well and will be offered a role, it's hard to work out how i did really!
So potentially over a period of 3 months i will have been.
A shift PC
A Area Beat Officer.
A Neighbourhood Sgt.
A Shift Sgt
And fingers crossed, a Roads Policing PC.
Well i will know in the next 2 weeks if i did enough to get one of the jobs.
Partly because i was having a bit of a mare having moved off a reactive shift onto a neighbourhood department and leaving the "security" of my shift who i had worked with for a number of years.
Quite a daunting thing really as it was the first time in my career i had left a bloody good team of people both personally and professionally with probably one of the best skippers i have worked with.
The complaint was resolved and i was basically cleared of any wrong doing. This was good for me as i suddenly realised how many people i have worked with over the years came out and supported me. I kept my head down and got on with the job and let the system do it's job as i knew regardless of the rumours i had done nothing wrong.
Not too long after the incident, i received a phone call, offering me a skippers role on the department which i obviously took and soon took on an acting rank.
This was quite weird for me as for some reason alot of people who i would not normally have access to became available to me. The amount of support was also quite a change and the higher ranks talked to me on a level rather than as a PC.
Needless to say i had a job to do and set about doing that job.
I have never been one for hiding in corners and knew although i will eventually go back to being a PC i was in rank and needed to be a sergeant. This meant some unpopular decisions which i hope wont be held against me when i am back to PC.
But it seems to be working, things changed and the department is now working as a team rather than a fragmented single existence for most of the officers.
Coming off a shift where teamwork is important to a department where it appeared that it was a individual effort rather than team was strange. And i wanted to build a team of reliable officers who i could trust.
And after about a month or so, is starting to take shape.
Only for me to leave sometime in the very near future.
It seems that my work has not gone unnoticed. Although i feel that i am just doing my job, others feel im doing more than that.
I will soon be off to shift again.
Not as a PC but as a shift skipper where i will hopefully have a team of officers to work with. Well depending on how many they want to abstract for other departments, annual leave etc!.
This will be interesting for me, i think i will try and get them working the same as my old shift, whether that works is another story!
Also if you remember i applied for roads policing for the second time.
Well i passed paper sift and have recently sat a board for the role where i hope i will get in.
Boards are strange things, in roads policing there are alot of things you need to read up on which took a great number of hours, only to briefly cover topics in a 30 minute interview.
Hopefully i did well and will be offered a role, it's hard to work out how i did really!
So potentially over a period of 3 months i will have been.
A shift PC
A Area Beat Officer.
A Neighbourhood Sgt.
A Shift Sgt
And fingers crossed, a Roads Policing PC.
Well i will know in the next 2 weeks if i did enough to get one of the jobs.
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