i AM A RETIRED AVON AND SOMERSET PC NOW LIVING MOST OF MY TIME IN SPAIN.I RETIRED IN 2005 CAN I ACCESS YOUR WEBSITE TO KEEP UPDATED OR IS IT NOT POSSIBLE.MY ADDRESS IN UK 65 ELAN WAY CALDICOT.
sEND MY REGARDS TO BOTH ALEX DUNCAN AND Paul Budd
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The web site is visible to anyone. The forum area is restricted to serving police officers of the ranks Constable to Chief Inspector and only A & S. There has not been a great deal of demand for retired officers to have such a facility. If there were sufficient demand we may consider setting up a further forum area for retired A & S Officers to keep in touch.
Friday, 04.3.09 @ 19:36pm
I read in the press that police numbers are to be cut nationally due to the current financial crisis! Do you know whether the press is correct on this matter and if so are we at A&S likely to suffer?
Regards
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Police numbers are reducing nationally due to more retiring than are being recruited and workforce modernisation. There are no plans to reduce numbers locally howvere the maths of the situation don't reflect this stance. More officers are retiring that are being recruited. There is an intake of 8 constables in March and then no further recruiting until September 2009. Decisions such as this are going to start to impact nationally on numbers with the impending Olympics in 2012 there may be foresee problems around resiliance ahead.
Tuesday, 02.24.09 @ 12:38pm
I would be interested to know what the PolFeds stance is on this suggestion.
I am in the last year of my 30 year service. Throughout my time in the Service there have been occasions when I have felt that there has been an inequitable situation with colleagues on Long Term Sick Leave but who retain their FULL Annual Leave entitlement.
I believe that it is time for those Officers who are Long Term Sick AT HOME should have their A/L reduced on a pro rata basis.
That is to say, for each twelfth of their duty year spent at home on sick leave they should, for example, lose one twelfth of their A/L for that period.
Now I should say at this point that this should not in any way effect the poor soles who have suffered significant injuries in the line of duty and have had to go to Hospital, Short or Long Term for treatment and then had a long recovery at home with a reduced quality of life whilst recuperating. Those Officers are not the issue here.
I purely wish to focus on those who have been 'signed off' by their Doctor for injuries or ailments (sometimes sustained in their leisure time) and have been deemed unfit for duty but are quite able to relax and be involved in their family life and for all intents and purposes function relatively normally at home. Who then have their full A/L when they do finally return to work.
During which time, their colleagues have had to cover those work loads as well as their own. Then to suffer the insult of seeing that Officer being told to go off on A/L soon after they return in order to reduce their accumulated A/L!
I do not see that as being fair treatment for those Officers who have been left behind to soldier on and expected to cope with reduced resources.
I think it is time that common sense alters this situation. I apppreciate that this may be down to the individual Chief Officer of their own Force, how they handle it but I have never known it to happen in our Force where an Officer has had their Annual Leave reduced?
Monday, 02.2.09 @ 18:57pm
As an officer approaching 30 years service I was delighted to see that the disparity between the pension entitlements of male and female officers has finally been resolved. I understand that the difference in commutation was based on the estimated life expectancy of the different genders, and has been held to be unlawful under sex discrimination legislation.
I have recently seen a projection of my own pension entitlement including commutation sum. I note that those of us reaching 30 years service on the same day are expecting to receive different ammounts as a lump sum dependent on their age. It seems to me that the case which was successfully argued on the basis of gender would be equally valid under age related discrimination legislation.
Your observations?
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The actuary tables govern the amounts, as such what you are in fact doing is giving up a certain amount of your pension pot by commuting it. If you are older, then as morbid as it sounds you would be expected to claim a pension for a shorter peiod than someone who is younger and as such the amounts reflect this. This is not a discrimination.
Monday, 02.2.09 @ 16:05pm
I am due to retire in the next few months and as a member of the old pension scheme am aware that my partner, albeit of 15 yrs, will not be entitled to a widows pension on my death as we are not married,I was aware of this when I chose to stay with the old scheme.My question is if we were to marry after my retirement would she then qualify or would we have to be married before retirement.
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You need to be married before retirement.
Tuesday, 01.27.09 @ 09:44am
I am a school governor. I have been told that employment legislation allows civil servants to take time off work to perform duties as a governor. Is there any such provision for police officers?
I am currently haivng to use Annual Leave to chair meetings during the day and so this would be really useful.
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On checking the actual legislation it talks about 'employees' of certain orgnisations being afforded time off for this duty. Police officers are not employees and as such it does not seem to apply to them. The answer therefore is no.
Friday, 11.21.08 @ 15:42pm
Can you tell me if there is a fertility policy in this force, time off for treatment etc.
Regards
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Our force does not yet have in place a fertility policy.
Friday, 10.24.08 @ 09:59am
Hi, I currently work an average of 31.5 hours a week, one week I work 3x9 hour shifts = 27 hours and the next 4x9 hours =36 hours.
If I work overtime, which is plain time up until 40 hours, and then enhanced, do I take my average determined hours (31.5) as the starting point for my plain time up until the 40 hours everyweek, or the rostered number of hours I am due to work in that particular week? (eg 13 hours at plain time or 4 hours in the second week)
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This has been answered in the frequently asked questions but to answer this here you have to work over 40hrs each work, i.e. over and above your averege 31.5hrs before you start accruing overtime.
Saturday, 10.11.08 @ 11:15am
My wife has pressured me into asking you this. We have a travel insurance policy with Stuart Harvey, do we need to inform them that she is pregnant before we travel.She is only 18 weeks. Sorry for this but her hormones are very confused!!!!!!!!!
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As with all cover when unique situations not specifically mentioned in the policy covere document crop up it is always worth a phone call to the insurerer just to put your mind at ease.
Saturday, 09.27.08 @ 07:50am
You have made the new travel insurance certificate available but the summary of cover is still the old one.
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The updated summary of cover is now on the website.
Monday, 09.1.08 @ 22:38pm
