Met Police recruitment drive after ‘struggle’ with number of applicants
https://www.itv.com/news/london/2024-07-18/met-police-recruitment-drive-after-struggling-with-number-of-applicants
Posted by insomnimax_99
Met Police recruitment drive after ‘struggle’ with number of applicants
https://www.itv.com/news/london/2024-07-18/met-police-recruitment-drive-after-struggling-with-number-of-applicants
Posted by insomnimax_99
16 Comments
Not surprised.
Poor pay. Long hours. Underappreciated. Unable to strike for better pay and conditions.
The pay is poor for the job, so that’s already going to damage recruitment. Then, if you can put up with that and decide to join out of a sense of public service, it’s the Met so one of your colleagues is going to land your unit in the shit after they do something corrupt. It’s not a recipe for success.
Shit pay to work unsociable hours. And an outdated hierarchy system. Imagine calling your boss sir or sergeant instead of Tom or Dave.
Strangely if you put up minimum wage by 20% in 2 years and every other “moderately” paid job has gone up by 3% in the same timeframe, then people begin to reevaluate why they should bother doing a stressful job like nurse or police officer when they can earn basically the same salary in a low responsibility job stacking shelves.
Food for thought.
The rewards in the UK for putting in the effort to learn skills or take on responsibility quickly diminish after minimum wage.
Why even bother accepting a promotion if you’ll have to deal with all the extra stress for 50p more an hour?
I would not recommend anybody to join the Police. Overworked, underpaid. Abused by the organisation, public and government. 9 o’clock jury for everything you ever do. IT systems and equipment rubbish. Expected to carry a significant workload with ever increasing administration as well as respond day-to-day. Don’t do it for your physical, mental or financial health.
Not surprised. It takes a certain kind of person in both a good and bad way to become an officer. Makes sense that not everyone wants to do it…
It’s even more serious when you consider the long term implications as this is a compounding problem…
If you aren’t getting enough applicants for a competitive recruitment process then you have to either recruit people who otherwise wouldn’t have passed to bolster numbers, causing a brain/skill drain and lowering the quality of police work further (this compounds AGAIN when you’re looking for future leaders). OR recruit less people, continuing the understaffing cycle of low morale and job turnover…… Lowering the quality of police work further.
It really is a vicious cycle
Until police can legitimately police rather than pandering to every and any shouty internet groups, this will not change. Like a referee, a police officer shouldn’t be looking to be popular to the mad crowds. They should just make the rule based decisions they are supposed to make.
Numbers mask a structural and public expectation problem. Society asked for mob lawlessness and now it’s here to stay.
Respect and Self discipline is the Achilles heel of Western society.
In Australia we are so desperate for police (who are all gun carriers) that now it’s a minimal quick course and the first question is “have good communication skills?”
After 7 years a Bobby earns 47k, in London you get 55k. Is that terrible pay like a lot of people on here keep repeating?
Justice needs to fix the sentencing guidelines. As some sentences are far too weak, particularly violent crime and driving offences.
Being a police officer must feel like groundhog day!
Shit pay. Shit hours. Shit from the public. Shit from the media. Shit resources. Shit from SLT who care more about how they look than actual Policing. Shit from all sides
Not many people wanna be sharia law enforcers then.
They have been hiring illegals this past month , que video of the freshi cop who couldn’t string an English sentence together trying to apply section 1 of PACE to a British citizen is quite possibly the funniest but scariest thing I’ve seen all week.
I feel like there’s a lot of people who will now never be able to consider working for the met for moral reasons. It’s one thing to work somewhere that’s corrupt, it’s another to actively sign up.
I remember a jobs fair at college in 2010/11 and the police were saying there weren’t many jobs since people just weren’t leaving. How things have changed. No coincidence with what happened in the government in that time.