This is an environmental thread or like watching paint 'drive' - what this is not is a politics thread
<cough> @Tobes thinks i don't know that he has been hiding on the Watford politics thread, @Dan Starkey 2 to confirm
Don't get me wrong the cuts are a bastard However I do think the retention rate with police and nurses doesn't help. Other subtle changes have impacted also. Eg more degree educated police means more started to get on the excelled promotion scheme so less street bobbies and more sergeants and inspectors
That’ll be because the pay and conditions are ****e, and they’re made even worse by the under staffing. My daughter got a nursing degree, working her way up a bit and ended up as a cardiac nurse. She loved the work but got fed up with ridiculous constant demands for OT, being on call, daft shift patterns that gave her no continuity, all driven by lack of trained staff and capped off with **** pay. So she reluctantly spewed it just over a year ago and set up her own business.
There’s huge shortage of detectives, as the average copper is worse off as a detective than as a plod.
Michael Gove is a ****ing shambles in a suit. He is lining himself up to be the next PM in his typical 2 faced, snidey plastic way.. Burn that ****er, must be at least 3000 pepsi bottles holding his life together..
Retention rate, what retention rate? Most older coppers retired at 55, and in nursing stress takes it's toll. In the past nurses going through their training were guaranteed a job, but now a days we have a lot of nurses who recognise what they signed up for is not being delivered by the government and we lose the skills to treat the growing queues.
