#FairPayForPolice: Federation take message to the heart of power in Westminster

27 July 2021

“Police officers have given everything. Yet again, the Government has given them nothing”

That was the message taken to the heart of power today as police officers from across the country came to Westminster to voice their fury at their treatment by the Government.

A huge billboard carrying the message “No Covid Vaccine. No Police Pay Rise. No Confidence in Priti Patel” accompanied the officers as it reminded those working in The House of Commons, The Home Office and 10 Downing Street of how the Government has betrayed the country’s hard-working police officers.

Brave colleagues who risked their safety – and sadly that of their families – as they kept people in the country safe over the last 18 months of the Covid-19 pandemic were last week awarded a 0% pay rise by Government.

Chair of the City of London Police Federation Mike Reed said “ We are here today to make sure our feelings are known with the Home Secretary the Prime Minister and the chancellor that fair pay for police is what we are after, it’s what is needed and for the past 10 years officers have suffered year on year by not being treated properly now is the time they should act on it."

As a result of the vaccine and pay betrayals, the Police Federation of England and Wales has passed a vote of no confidence in Home Secretary Priti Patel and has withdrawn its support and engagement from the Police Remuneration Review Body, labelling the current police officer pay mechanism ‘not fit for purpose’.

Mike added “We are going to continue this by asking that non-independent pay review body and asking that the pay review body is meaningful and there is no remit letter  that goes with that. We need this to be ruled free and independently and properly. 

The Police Federation of England and Wales has now called on the Government to dispense with policing platitudes and to agree to work with the Police Federation on an entirely new and fairer system of remuneration decision-making.

And to reverse the 0% pay award decision and give our police officers a meaningful pay increase.

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