You can have any model you want
...as long as its managements.
The ONE (and there can be only ONE) London Policing Model rolls inexorably on to its anticipated date
in June.
It is clear that they... and you can fill in whatever variation
of senior management (sorry that should read senior leadership).....Home office
diktat... centralized HR bean counters... have decided what they want.
It’s just a matter of counting the days to its implementation.
They have no interest if it will bring major issues to
officers who will have to adapt to earlier shift times, later finish times....simply
no public transport before or after certain hours .Certainly no guarantee of parking if they have to drive in and elbow
for space Mon-Friday 9-5.
But what galls me the most is this.
The PRETENCE that what is going on is up for any sensible negotiation.
If they, who inhabit the exalted halls of the chosen would
just say....
This is what we are
doing ‘like it or lump it’
You could at least know where you stand
But they purvey this notion that it is being reviewed, input
is being received, digested from all interested parties.
We have ‘meet the SLT stuff’ to allow issues to be ‘aired’
Frankly no-one cares what the workers think
I know that far more sensible options have been put forward
to encompass what BHH is driving at but the input is being blanked ( or anyone with
any weight at Borough level is so averse to put their head above the parapet they won’t push it ) I can’t blame them.
Don’t argue with the centre.
They apparently assembled a team at what is known as ESB to
look at the options.
Would any front line local firebrand or vocal supporter of
those who shovel the daily stuff be seconded or volunteer to this working group?
No.
We all know what it is. It is a paper exercise to come to a known
conclusion.
We are being TOLD what is happening.
The troops know when they are being ‘sold‘something.
Just be straight with them.
You might.....just might ..... get a leeeeetle more respect.
