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Steve Greenwood
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Today is the start of the Police Federation Conference and you can bet your bottom dollar that they will give Theresa May a very hard time.
They may not be able to alter Government policy as to pensions etc but they will leave her in no doubt as to the general feelings of the rank and file officers.
I really don’t see how officers can ’Work to Rule’ without putting the public, in some circumstances, in danger!!

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16/05/2012 08:36:37

Terry Carey
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Quoting: John (scouse) Hirons
Terry, The Police lost the right to join an independent Trades Union & the right to strike in the 1919 Police Act. [/I]

I knew that from your earlier post Scouse but I was referring to the Army when I said I didn’t know what the legislation was concerning them.

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16/05/2012 17:28:13

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I knew that from your earlier post Scouse but I was referring to the Army when I said I didn’t know what the legislation was concerning them.

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Alright Terry, I don’t know & haven’t been able to find out when these rights were removed from the armed forces but I think it’s a case of they have never had it. I know it was in place in 1946 when Airmen stationed at RAF Karachi went on strike & it soon spread throughout India & Ceylon a few camps in Singapore, it was declared a mutiny.

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16/05/2012 18:12:52

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Scouse,

That is my thinking on the matter too. I would thaink that, historically, when armies were first mustered it was at the behest of the local or Nation’s leaders. They wouldn’t bother, in my opinion, about such niceties, and more than likely people served until they died or, until the reason for their enlistment was past.

Then I would imagine they were simply disbanded until required again bar a nucleus which would be retained for emergencies.

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