Metropolitan Police Federation

So! Tom Winsor – advocate of pay cuts and compulsory redundancies for police officers – has spoken for the first time with his new Chief Inspector of Constabulary hat on (writes Metline editor Ian Cameron).

DURING his speech, Mr Winsor made very fulsome comments about police officers.

THE decision by Home Secretary Theresa May to scrap the Police Negotiating Board and implement a Pay Review Body to decide police pay has been condemned by the Met Federation.

REGULATION A19, which allows for officers with 30 years’ pensionable service to be forcibly retired, exists to enable forces to improve their operational efficiency – but if it was implemented in the Met it would have the opposite effect.

THE Chair, John Tully, and I undertook a series of roadshows last year, attending many police buildings to talk to members about the changes that were being forced on officers as a result of Winsor and the proposed changes in our pensions (write Met Federation Vice Chair Gull Barratt).

THE panel which is conducting a review of the Police Federation of England and Wales (PFEW) is inviting members to submit their views.

MORE than half of custody sergeants are suffering anxiety and depression, according to the results of a national study carried out by the University of Nottingham.

Mayor Boris Johnson is prepared to pour cold water on the notion of chief police officers’ operational independence – at the rate of 1,100 litres a second (writes Metline columnist Ivor Grype).

THE new Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Tom Winsor, has said that the police should concentrate their efforts on crime prevention (see feature on page four).

Good evening.