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I Hate You Butler

Reading Time: 7 minutes I Hate You Butler, or more accurately, we hate you Police, seems to be the Battle Cry of any modern day Conservative government. I’m happy to be corrected, but governments and Home Secretaries in particular, seemed to be relatively supportive in the past, regardless of which party they belonged to.  I remember Labour’s Merlynn Rees […]

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Police Pay Pensions and Conditions – It All Makes Sense Now

Reading Time: 2 minutes But I still don’t agree with it. Correct me if I’m wrong but the first major changes came with Tom Winsor’s ‘Independent’ Reviews. Instead of being able to retire on a full pension after 30 years service ‘Tom’ recommended increasing retirement age to 60 for a full pension. The Pension Scheme itself was changed from

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The Great Pensions Debacle

Reading Time: 2 minutes The saga is almost over. The Great Injustice is about to be put right. It seems that FireFighters and Police Officers who retired between 2001 and 2006, and who commuted any of their pension, were diddled out of some of their lump sum. Not just a little bit either. Retired FireFighter Billy Milne whose case

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Thieving, Money-Grabbing Bar Stewards

Reading Time: 3 minutes And that’s just our esteemed Government. Over the years we have seen a succession of governments mount a sustained attack on the Police Pension Scheme.  Up until recently it was generally accepted that these changes would only apply to new members of the scheme and that existing members would retain their existing Terms, Conditions and

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The Fire Service & Police Pension Update – The Real One

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Ombudsman’s decision has now been made public and it has become clear that he found in favour of the Applicant, a retired Firefighter. This has implications for thousands of Police Officers and Firefighters who retired between 1998 and 2006. The full adjudication of the Ombudsman can be found here. There is also a Technical

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