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Feeding Plod's Cash machine

Police officers have complained that they are being be forced to behave like pushy car salesmen in order to hit targets for imposing on-the-spot penalties. - Telegraph

A bit of a slur on Car Salesmen, they have to use wit, charm and guile to extract the money, not the threat of force.

Blog Post Dated: May 4, 2010 6:38 AM |

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I'm sure you noticed that this story came from the Scottish Police Federation conference: there is no performance related element to police pay in England for officers below the rank of superintendent.

Posted by: Inspector Lestrade | May 4, 2010 12:57 PM

OT(although... maybe not in terms of the patterns that occur in both stories), but very entertaining: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bluewin.ch%2Fde%2Findex.php%2F24%2C265341%2FSchwindel_mit_Solarstrom_in_Spanien_aufgeflogen%2Fde%2Fnews%2Fwirtschaft%2Fsda%2F&sl=de&tl=en

Posted by: Evelyn | May 4, 2010 7:55 PM

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