Integrity is non-negotiable!
This is the mantra of the Met Police.
From the first day you step through the gates at Hendon, this is the message you get; your first few weeks of training are based around hammering in this message; and it's part of the gateway to every daily on-line briefing.
We're also increasingly accountable: our Safer Neighbourhood Teams are contactable by mobile 'phone by members of the public (usually known as MOPs), they meet with the public once a month to listen to their concerns, they spend their patrolling lives checking with people and talking in the street. Our pay is transparent, published, auditable and accountable*; the powers that be are now talking about conducting disciplinary proceedings in public (not their best idea, IMHO, but no doubt it'll keep some bloody civvie in the MPA or IPCC happy so no doubt at all it'll happen).
Politicians, however, for whom WE vote (or don't, as poor turnouts for elections and spoiled ballot papers attest), as well as voting in their own pay deals and expenses, have now decided that this is too much scrutiny on them. They have decided that this information is too much for the UK public to take in. We are not to be trusted with such things as how much our MPs earn, how much they fiddle their postage stamp and wives=secretaries expenses, and how they spend their days. You see we, the British public in public roles, are accountable to anyone who asks.
But politicians? EXEMPT!
If I were a person of rank, which I'm not, I might be tempted to suggest that a revolution is required to tell these grasping power-crazed, nest-feathering mysanthropic morons exactly who their bosses are (a la then-Commander, now DAC Brian Paddick). However, I am not a person of rank, so I shall not. I shall just think it VERY LOUD to myself.
[if anyone does want to have a revolution, can you please do it with less than 5 days' notice on a couple of my rest days? I have a wife and cats to support and the prospect of a 1% pay deal this year].
* By the way, "Gripper" Reid is already trying to deny us this autumn's pay deal, as predicted by PC Bitseach some months ago.
From the first day you step through the gates at Hendon, this is the message you get; your first few weeks of training are based around hammering in this message; and it's part of the gateway to every daily on-line briefing.
We're also increasingly accountable: our Safer Neighbourhood Teams are contactable by mobile 'phone by members of the public (usually known as MOPs), they meet with the public once a month to listen to their concerns, they spend their patrolling lives checking with people and talking in the street. Our pay is transparent, published, auditable and accountable*; the powers that be are now talking about conducting disciplinary proceedings in public (not their best idea, IMHO, but no doubt it'll keep some bloody civvie in the MPA or IPCC happy so no doubt at all it'll happen).
Politicians, however, for whom WE vote (or don't, as poor turnouts for elections and spoiled ballot papers attest), as well as voting in their own pay deals and expenses, have now decided that this is too much scrutiny on them. They have decided that this information is too much for the UK public to take in. We are not to be trusted with such things as how much our MPs earn, how much they fiddle their postage stamp and wives=secretaries expenses, and how they spend their days. You see we, the British public in public roles, are accountable to anyone who asks.
But politicians? EXEMPT!
If I were a person of rank, which I'm not, I might be tempted to suggest that a revolution is required to tell these grasping power-crazed, nest-feathering mysanthropic morons exactly who their bosses are (a la then-Commander, now DAC Brian Paddick). However, I am not a person of rank, so I shall not. I shall just think it VERY LOUD to myself.
[if anyone does want to have a revolution, can you please do it with less than 5 days' notice on a couple of my rest days? I have a wife and cats to support and the prospect of a 1% pay deal this year].
* By the way, "Gripper" Reid is already trying to deny us this autumn's pay deal, as predicted by PC Bitseach some months ago.
posted by Bitseach at 6:38 pm
4 Comments:
you make valid points my-get-out-of-the-bed-the-wrong-side-this-morning-buddy!
Only echoes what has been going on for hundreds of years. The have its & the privileged have always have the say on what happens. The decisions made have been to protect the top levels of society and many laws introduced to protect the upper classes, almost like a class protection barrier against the masses. As usual the political view for everyone else bears little or no resemblance to what they want for themselves, from pay, freedom of information or just about anything else. What about accountability ?
No-one sets their targets for them and one chance every 5 years to have a say with an X is pretty poor. Even what they claim to stand for appears to be trash as all they want to do is say what they need to say to get elected and take their seat on the gravy train. Just how do you get to be an MP ? Is there an apprentiship or do you have to be in the right circles ? Is it a proper job ?
Good job they don't have a conscience as this allows them to offer judgement on everyone else without thinking about all of them that have lied, cheated the public, their public who they are supposedly respresenting, followed whatever the party line is at the expense of any popular opinion. Oh yes, I forgot that some of them, as fine upstanding honest citizens, have even gone to prison. Now there's a thought. Do you know why they never appear on mastermind ? Because they find it impossible to answer any of the questions. Accountability ? They don't even know the meaning of the word, it only applies to everyone else. This is because they have devolved responsibility away from themselves to everyone else, from education, hospitals, local services and us, their only line away from anarchy, the thin blue line that the use to protect themselves even further. The French might have had it right you know.
So when Public Sector pay rises are to be capped at 2% this doesn't include politicians? interesting, shows that they don't consider themselves servants of the public eh.
same every year... and come september we will get 3% .. after a few more bombings of course.
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