How much more demoralised can the Police Service become?

On the hells of the news that the new CoP is to receive a monthly salary of 133,000, the Police Service Association is claiming that this will render the Police Service demoralised.



Ok, I can see how this is possible and if this is in fact a real consequence of having a CoP which such a salary attached to him. However, I cannot understand a possibility of becoming demoralised if as citizens on a daily basis complain about poor response by the Police. If you were to call a Police Station for help one of these are sure to be a response, “we doh have a car”, “we have a car but no driver”, “everybody out on patrol”, “you have to call XYZ station”, “we sent an office out to you already” (this was about 4hrs ago). And the list of excuses is unending.


How much more demoralised can the Police Service become when instead of doing what they are paid for, they are seen picking of their children from school, dropping of their wife to the hair dresser, transporting a stove for the “horner” woman, liming by the bar and river. And this list also is unending.


The question remains, how much more can the Police Service become and in answering this we need to also consider the detection rate of the police service, this is so poor that I cannot understand how the Police Service Association can today claim that because of an inflated salary of a new CoP would demoralised the Police Service. Has this man considered how demoralise the citizens of this country are, how confident the citizens are in the Police Service. As I have said in opening, I can understand the Police Service Associations concerns, but does he understand our concerns?