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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Cops: Better service with improved salary

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The Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion yes­ter­day as­sured that if its re­quests are met the coun­try will have a bet­ter work­ing Po­lice Ser­vice.Speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence at the as­so­ci­a­tion's of­fice at Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion its pres­i­dent, In­spec­tor Anand Rame­sar, said the coun­try would "most def­i­nite­ly" re­ceive bet­ter ser­vice adding: "The as­so­ci­a­tion can ba­si­cal­ly guar­an­tee that."The as­so­ci­a­tion is ask­ing that salary ne­go­ti­a­tions be­gin, the is­sue of pro­mo­tions is ad­e­quate­ly dealt with and that com­pen­sa­tion for ex­tra du­ty is up­grad­ed to the cur­rent rate.Rame­sar added that po­lice should be treat­ed as pro­fes­sion­als when it came to their salaries.

He said the as­so­ci­a­tion had looked at the new skills and knowl­edge a po­lice of­fi­cer now need­ed and many of them had de­grees so they should be seen as pro­fes­sion­als.Asked if the as­so­ci­a­tion was seek­ing to amend the qual­i­fi­ca­tions to gain en­try in­to the ser­vice, Rame­sar said no, adding that they are not ask­ing for the qual­i­fi­ca­tions to be in­creased as some who have ba­sic qual­i­fi­ca­tions are very good po­lice of­fi­cers.He added that there was a gap be­tween de­gree-hold­ing of­fi­cers and those with the ba­sic qual­i­fi­ca­tions and that should be dealt with in terms of com­pen­sa­tion.

On the is­sue of wage ne­go­ti­a­tion Rame­sar said his mem­bers felt be­trayed since the De­fence Force set­tled its ne­go­ti­a­tions "like a thief in the night." Sec­re­tary of the as­so­ci­a­tion In­sp Michael Seales said six months have passed since it sent its pro­pos­als to the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer and have not re­ceived any feed­back.Rame­sar said un­less the com­pen­sa­tion is­sues were dealt with then his mem­bers would not be mak­ing them­selves avail­able for the for­ma­tion of the Child Pro­tec­tion Unit, which was to be es­tab­lished to deal with sex­u­al crimes against mi­nors.He added that the cur­rent pro­pos­al for salary, which he did not di­vulge, cov­ered com­pen­sa­tion for the new pro­posed unit.


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