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'Phone call overtime' story takes a faulty line

'Phone call overtime' story takes a faulty line

Recent reports in sections of the media that police offices are paid hundreds of pounds for answering work-related telephone calls while off duty are sensational and also completely untrue.

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Apology demanded as Straw puts the crass into bureaucracy

Apology demanded as Straw puts the crass into bureaucracy

As a trained lawyer and Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw should understand the importance of evidence.


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Systematic failure? We fail to understand

Systematic failure? We fail to understand

When metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) member Victoria Borwick addressed a meeting of the Association of Police Authorities, she told her audience that she had "tried to be reasonably controversial".


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'Cover-up' conspiracy theorists lose the plot

'Cover-up' conspiracy theorists lose the plot

Claims have been made in The Guardian newspaper and by Metropolitan Police Authority Green Party member Jenny Jones that there is a conspiracy to protect Territorial Support Group (TSG) officers who have been subject to complaints from the public from being subsequently charged with offences (writes Met Fed Chairman Peter Smyth).


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Proposed Federation subscription increase

Proposed Federation subscription increase

An increase in subscriptions proposed by the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is to be reviewed and will be subject to further consultation, following intervention by the Metropolitan Police Federation.


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Metropolitan Police Federation

The Metropolitan Police Federation is the staff association to which every constable, sergeant, inspector and chief inspector in the Metropolitan Police Service belongs - a total of more than 30,000 officers.

Its job is to represent its members' interests in all matters affecting their welfare and efficiency, including conditions of employment, and it carries considerable influence.

In common with other police forces' Federations, it is affiliated to the Police Federation of England and Wales.

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Metline

What do the public really think about the police, policing and crime? The answers may not be what you expect. And has the Home Secretary failed to learn a lesson from history as he gives town halls the power to seize assets? Read about it in the latest issue of Metline.

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