Gwent Police Federation MARCH Winsor 2 Special 2012

Chairman’s Winsor 2 ‘could views By Jeff Mapps of Gwent Police dismantle’ the Federation Months of waiting have come to an end with the publication of the Winsor 2 report. However, it cannot be said that police service everything good comes to he who waits! The Winsor 2 recommendations nnual fitness tests, a move – and remember at this stage they are towards narrowing the gap just recommendations – have the Abetween police officer and staff potential to change the face of pay and conditions, lower starting policing forever. salaries for constables and direct entry Our police service – once envied at inspector and superintendent level across the world – could soon change are just a few of the recommendations beyond recognition as the put forward by Tom Winsor in the Government continues with its second part of his review of policing. Despite a 2-year pay freeze and increased pension contributions the apparently ideological attack on the government has unduly targeted police officers’ pay and conditions of service. The report, which includes 121 Yet, there is still the possibility of more change and cuts to come. office of constable. recommendations, has been condemned The message to government from the 104,000 police constables in England and It’s no real surprise, as the Wales is very simple - we won’t take any more cuts... by Police Federation leaders. Government seems intent on closing National chairman Paul McKeever Enough is Enough! the gap between the pay and warned it will further jeopardise public conditions of police staff and police safety and the quality of service that officers, that many officers are now police forces can offer while vice-chair POLICE FEDERATION CONSTABLES’ CENTRAL COMMITTEE www.polfed.org/constables.asp calling for full industrial rights. Simon Reed claimed it could effectively We have a unique place in society, ‘dismantle’ the police service as we and unique restrictions on our know it. personal lives. We have always been They say the Federation needs servants of the Crown and have none time to properly analyse the 769-page of the employment rights of other report and assess the impact of the workers. recommendations for constables, However, there is now a feeling sergeants, inspectors and chief inspectors their very best, but they know the that enough is enough. We seem to across England and Wales. Government cuts are jeopardising public have been under constant attack with But Paul said: “Police officers have safety and the quality of service they are Winsor 1, Hutton and Neyroud all had enough of the constant state of able to provide. The service cannot take putting forward changes that will uncertainty and the deliberate, sustained anymore; enough is enough.” change our terms and conditions, attack on them by this Government. Simon Reed warns lowering the leave many worse off and, crucially, They want to get on with the job they starting salary for constables will simply fundamentally change the face of our joined to do, serving their communities, put many people off joining, narrowing policing service. and they expect the support of the field of people the Force could As the national Federation Government. attract. interprets the recommendations and “Instead they find themselves He also refers to recommendations to devises its strategy for fighting the contending with cuts to pay and reward officers for skills rather than on Winsor 2 proposals, I would like to conditions of service, increased stress and length of service as ‘highly contentious’. give you an assurance that we will do pressures, falling numbers of police On proposals for direct entry, he is all we can to represent your views, officers, low morale and the privatisation adamant that all officers should start as negotiate on your behalf, keep your of essential police functions. constables and gain experience on the money in your pockets and do “Despite a growing list of demands ground, working their way up through everything in our power to protect and the reality of the cuts, they are doing the rank system. British policing as we know it. Winsor – the sequel unfolds he Winsor 2 report shares the some of the Part 1 proposals, including any form of regional pay as ‘extremely same ancestry as Part 1, and may those relating to Competence-Related divisive’ in a national police service. Tprove to be just as contentious. Threshold Payments (CRTP) and over- On entry routes to the service, the Winsor 1 had looked at immediate time, and these recommendations have document stated: “The PFEW believes measures to reduce spending in line with now all been ratified by that every officer promoted must have the 20 per cent cuts announced as part of . served at every rank below that to which the Government’s Comprehensive Like Part 1, the background to Winsor they are promoted, and is therefore Spending Review (CSR). Winsor 2 looks 2 began on 1 October 2010 when the against any proposal which would allow primarily at longer term issues of pay and Government announced there would be external candidates to join the service conditions. an independent review of police pay by above the rank of constable.” As few can forget, Winsor 1 was hotly Tom Winsor, the former . The Winsor review has been taking contested by the Police Federation and In June 2011, Winsor published a place against a background of other 18 of 27 recommendations were referred consultation document for Part 2 and on proposed changes such as the Hutton to the Police Arbitration Tribunal (PAT) 29 September 2011 the Police Federation report on pensions, the Neyroud Review after the Staff Side and the Official Side responded with a 91-page document of Police Leadership and Training, cuts to of the (PNB) highlighting its concerns about police budgets and failed calls for a Royal failed to reach an agreement. ‘unintended consequences’ arising from Commission on Policing - all adding to The PAT ruling in January modified performance related pay and described uncertainties across the police service.

could include service in a chief officer The numbers equivalent role overseas. n 769 pages of report 23 to watch 34 – From September 2018, an annual n 121 recommendations Of the 121 recommendations in the physical fitness test for all police officers n £4,500, the maximum cut Winsor 2 report, several instantly in England and Wales, equivalent to the suggested by Winsor to police grabbed the headlines. test used for Police Service of Northern constables’ starting salaries Tom Winsor claims that, together Ireland (PSNI) recruits. n 60, the age suggested for with the reforms already being 38 – Changes to the procedure for retirement. implemented under the first part of his determining the circumstances in which review, there would be gross savings of an officer may be placed on restricted 89 – April 2013, bonus scheme for £1.9 billion over six years, two thirds of duty. Chief Constables abolished. which would be re-invested in policing. 43 – Normal pension age for police 91 – From April 2013 performance- A detailed response from the Police officers set at 60 in line with the Hutton related bonus schemes for police staff, Federation will be made once the full report. of all grades, abolished. report and its implications have been 54 – From April 2013, a new, shorter pay 95 – By 2016 a Foundation Skills analysed. scale for new entrant constables to allow Threshold introduced at the fourth constables to move to the maximum point of the constables’ pay scale. Recommendations to watch from the more quickly. 97 – By 2016, a Specialist Skills Part 2 report 55 – Pay points 6, 7, and 9 removed from Threshold introduced at the final pay 1 and 2 – While Winsor says terms and the existing constables’ pay scale in April point of all police officer pay scales up conditions of police officers and staff 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively to to and including chief superintendent. should remain separate for the allow current and new pay scales to 101 – A Public Order Allowance (POA) ‘foreseeable future’, he does call for merge in 2016. should be established when the EPAA reviews to assess the feasibility of 56 – From April 14, pay point 0 of the is removed. harmonisation. current sergeants’ pay scale removed to 110 – Unsocial hours for police 3 – From April 2013, an additional ensure that sergeants are always paid officers and staff harmonised as work qualification. Candidates to a police more than constables. between the hours of 8.00pm and force should have either a Level 3 or a 84 – Pay progression for officers in the 6.00am, with all days of the week recognised police qualification. Federated ranks subject to a satisfactory being of equal weight. 8 – From August 2013, a national direct box marking in the annual appraisal 112 – From April 2013, a national entry (inspector) scheme. introduced for sergeants, inspectors and on-call allowance for the Federated 19 – From September 2013, a national chief inspectors in 2014/15 and for ranks introduced. scheme for recruitment directly to the constables in 2015/16. 115 – By late 2014, the Police rank of superintendent. 88 – April 2013, individual bonus schemes Negotiating Board abolished and 23 and 24 – From September 2013, the for officers in the superintending, ACC replaced by an independent police eligible experience for a Chief Constable and DCC ranks abolished. officer pay review body.

Page 2 n Recommendation 17 – The Police The recommendations Regulations 2003 should be amended to provide for the return to the police service of former non-probationary These are an abridged version of the n Recommendation 9 – The Direct officers at the rank they last held. recommendations affecting officers. Entry (Inspector) scheme should last There should be no right of return and three years for external candidates there must be a suitable vacancy. n Recommendation 1 – The terms and and two years for internal candidates. n Recommendation 18 – The Police conditions of police officers and staff n Recommendation 10 – Police Regulations 2003 should state should remain separate for the Regulations 2003 should be amended returning officers should be subject to foreseeable future. to allow those on an accelerated a probationary period of six months. n Recommendation 2 – The new police promotion scheme recognised by the n Recommendation 19 – A national pay review body (see Chapter 10) Home Secretary to serve a one-year scheme for recruitment directly to the should undertake a periodic review of probationary period, or shorter as the rank of superintendent should operate the development of the police relevant chief officer determines. from September 2013. workforce, and its increasing n Recommendation 11 – Police n Recommendation 20 – The scheme professionalisation and specialisation, (Promotion) Regulations 1996 should should be operated by the Police and make an assessment and be amended to provide that officers Professional Body, which should also recommendation to the Home on an accelerated promotion scheme, meet the costs of the scheme, other Secretary as to the feasibility of recognised by the Home Secretary, than the support provided to scheme attaining a greater degree of should be promoted from constable to members by forces. harmonisation of the terms and sergeant if they have met the criteria n Recommendation 21 – Police conditions of police officers and those to join a recognised accelerated Regulations 2003 should be amended of police staff. Where it is feasible, it promotion scheme course, have so those entering above the rank of should be done. The period in question completed one year’s service and have constable should serve a probationary should be five years. passed a one-year probation period, period according to the applicable n Recommendation 3 – From April subject to the discretion of their Chief direct entry scheme. 2013, an additional qualification Constable. n Recommendation 22 – The direct should be added to the list required n Recommendation 12 – The Police entry scheme for superintendents for appointment to a police force in (Promotion) Regulations 1996 should should be reviewed after five years. Regulation 10 of the Police be amended so officers on an n Recommendation 23 – From Regulations 2003. Candidates eligible accelerated promotion scheme September 2013, the eligible for appointment to a police force recognised by the Home Secretary experience for a Chief Constable in the should have either a Level 3 should be automatically promoted Police Regulations 2003, should be qualification, or a police qualification from sergeant to inspector upon amended to include service in a chief which is recognised by the sector skills passing a recognised accelerated officer equivalent role overseas in a council, Skills for Justice. promotion scheme course. common law jurisdiction which n Recommendation 4 – Forces should n Recommendation 13 – The Police practises policing by consent. collaborate on the development of Professional Body should develop a n Recommendation 24 – The eligible policing qualifications. distance-learning version of the experience for a Chief Constable set n Recommendation 5 – The pass mark policing technical certificate designed out in the Police Reform and Social for the 2013 SEARCH assessment as a pre-entry requirement for the Responsibility Act 2011 should be process should be at least 70 per cent. Direct Entry (Inspector) scheme and amended to include service in a chief n Recommendation 6 – The basic Direct Entry (Superintendent) scheme. officer equivalent role overseas in a training of police officers should be n Recommendation 14 – The Police common law jurisdiction which improved to more fully cover the Professional Body should lengthen the practises policing by consent. essential features of the place of the ‘Foundation for Senior Leaders’ course n Recommendation 25 – The Police police in the criminal justice system. from three to six weeks. Professional Body should develop a n Recommendation 7 – The police n Recommendation 15 – Officers flexible, tailored course of instruction service should establish a programme seeking promotion to superintendent for Chief Constables appointed from of intensive promotion of itself to should complete an enhanced overseas. young people in schools and ‘Foundation for Senior Leaders n Recommendation 26 – Police universities. Course’. Regulations 2003 should be amended n Recommendation 8 – From August n Recommendation 16 – Police to remove the requirement as to the 2013, a national Direct Entry Regulations should enable police length or place of service required to (Inspector) scheme should be officers to be seconded to become a Chief Constable in the case established with the objective of organisations outside policing for up only of officers to be appointed as improving police leadership. to five years. Chief Constables from police forces

Page 3 outside the United Kingdom. be introduced. n Recommendation 27 – The sole n Recommendation 38 – The Police criterion for the recruitment, Regulations 2003 should be amended advancement and promotion of police to specify the procedure for officers should be merit. determining the circumstances in n Recommendation 28 – All police which an officer may be placed on forces should establish efficient restricted duty, the arrangements methods for the active and which a Chief Constable may make for constructive development of the officers on restricted duty, and the careers of officers, irrespective of rank. adjustments to the pay of such n Recommendation 29 – Each force officers. should establish a succession planning n Recommendation 39 – From Former rail regulator Tom Winsor. system which identifies projected September 2014, officers on restricted vacancies and the people most likely duty should have their deployability the fitness test. to be best fitted to fill them. and capability to exercise police n Recommendation 42 – The Police Act n Recommendation 30 – Chief powers assessed one year after being 1996 should be amended to give the Constables should make greater use of placed on restricted duty. Officers who Police Appeals Tribunal the same ‘rank skipping’, so that an officer is not are not deployable and are not power as an employment tribunal in required to serve at every rank. capable of work which requires the respect of the remedies it may order n Recommendation 31 – For each rank office of constable should sustain a when it has found in favour of a above constable, a core set of reduction in pay equal to the value of claimant police officer. leadership, management and financing the deployability element of the n Recommendation 43 – The normal skills should be established by the new X-factor, namely the lower of eight pension age for police officers should Police Professional Body. per cent and £2,922 per annum. After be set at 60. n Recommendation 32 – The a further year, appropriate proceedings n Recommendation 44 – A future responsibilities of the Police should be initiated to dismiss or retire police pension scheme should retain Promotions Examination Board for these officers on the grounds of the existing test which must be setting promotions standards should incapability or poor attendance. fulfilled for an officer to be considered be subsumed into the Police Advisory Officers permanently disabled from for an ill-health retirement pension. Board of England and Wales. When working as police officers should be ill- n Recommendation 45 – A future this has been done, the PPEB should health retired. Those who are not police pension scheme should be abolished. permanently disabled should be given determine the size of a police officer’s n Recommendation 33 – A fitness test the opportunity to resign as police pension, when he is retiring on the should be introduced in September officers and immediately take up a grounds of ill-health, by considering 2013 for all police officers and staff police staff job on police staff terms both his length of service and his required to undertake personal safety and conditions, if one is available. future capacity for regular training. From September 2014, those n Recommendation 40 – A former employment. failing the test three times will face officer who resigns to take a police n Recommendation 46 – The Police appropriate disciplinary procedures. staff job or who is dismissed on the Regulations 2003 should be amended n Recommendation 34 – From grounds of incapability or poor to create a system of compulsory September 2018, an annual physical attendance following the restricted severance for police officers with less fitness test should be introduced for duty process, should be entitled to be than full pensionable service from all police officers in England and considered for re-appointment if, April 2013. Wales, equivalent to the test used for following an assessment by an n Recommendation 47 – The Police recruits in the Police Service of approved medical practitioner, the Regulations 2003 should be amended Northern Ireland (PSNI). condition which previously to provide for the payment of n Recommendation 35 – From compromised his capability is judged financial compensation to police September 2018, the national police to have permanently changed so as to officers with less than full pensionable recruitment test should be replaced by restore his ability to work as a police service who leave the police service by the more demanding physical officer. The force should be required reason of compulsory severance. assessment test used in the PSNI. actively to consider whether a suitable n Recommendation 48 – Officers who n Recommendation 36 – From vacancy at the former officer’s rank have been subject to compulsory September 2018, probationers should exists or is likely to exist in the coming severance should have access to have to prove their fitness against the year. The force should have this duty employment tribunals if they wish to more demanding physical assessment for a period of five years after the allege that their severance has been test of the PSNI. officer has left. unfair. n Recommendation 37 – From n Recommendation 41 – A returning n Recommendation 49 – HMIC, in September 2018, national fitness tests officer should have an unblemished consultation with police forces, the for specialist police officer roles should disciplinary record and be able to pass Police Professional Body and the

Page 4 , should establish a constable and sergeant pay scales, and recruit constables in the first five years national template for a force between the inspector and chief of their service should pay management statement which should inspector pay scales. compensation to the force from which be published by each police force with n Recommendation 59 – The national they have recruited the constable. its annual report. spend on bonuses and double n Recommendation 76 – The new n Recommendation 50 – increments for superintendents should police pay review body should Compensation payments for Chief be reinvested into a revised three- consider the case for the extension of Constables and Deputy Chief point pay scale for superintendents, a system to reimburse the training Constables whose fixed term with a starting salary of £60,094 and costs of specialist police officer roles, appointments are not renewed should a maximum of £72,585 from April such as firearms, in its first triennial be fair and more generous than the 2014. review. compensation available to officers n Recommendation 60 – The post- n Recommendation 79 – The Police who leave the police service by reason related allowance for chief Professional Body should amend the of compulsory severance. superintendents should be abolished. current NPIA PDR model to make it fit n Recommendation 51 – Hearings n Recommendation 61 – Assistant for use as the basis of contribution- under the Police (Conduct) Chief Constables should remain on a related pay in the police service. Regulations 2008, which have the single national pay scale. n Recommendation 80 – The amended power to dismiss an officer, should n Recommendation 62 – The pay scale NPIA PDR template, and its also have the power to remove some for Assistant Chief Constables should accompanying guidance, should be or all of the compensation payment be replaced with a three-point pay established as the minimum standard for the contract of appointment to scale. for appraisal in the police service. which the chief officer is currently n Recommendation 63 – The pay of n Recommendation 81 – The amended subject if there has been a violation of Deputy Chief Constables should NPIA PDR should be used in all forces the mandatory standards of remain unchanged. in England and Wales beginning in professional conduct under the Police n Recommendation 64 – Police and 2014/15. (Conduct) Regulations 2008. crime commissioners should have the n Recommendation 82 – Forced n Recommendation 52 – Fixed term power to set the Chief Constable’s distribution should be used to identify appointments for Chief Constables basic pay at any level which is up to the least effective 10 per cent of and Deputy Chief Constables should 10 per cent above or below the officers and staff. Line managers of remain. national rate for a Chief Constable in officers and staff who are the least n Recommendation 53 – The current the force in question. effective 10 per cent of performers maximum basic pay for constables n Recommendation 65 – Each police must consider the use of should remain at £36,519.54. and crime commissioner should unsatisfactory performance n Recommendation 54 – A new, publish in his annual report the rate of procedures for officers and the shorter pay scale for constables should basic pay agreed with the Chief equivalent procedures for police staff. be introduced for new entrants from Constable, and the reasons why it was n Recommendation 83 – Competence April 2013. It should have a lower set at that level. Related Threshold Payments (CRTP) starting salary than the current scale, n Recommendation 71 – The should be abolished by April 2013, and but should allow constables to move deployment component of the police all accrued CRTP payments up to that to the maximum more quickly. officer X-factor should be established date should be made on a pro-rated n Recommendation 55 – Pay points 6, to be eight per cent of basic pay for basis. 7, and 9 should be removed from the constables. For other ranks, it should n Recommendation 84 – Pay existing constables’ pay scale in April be expressed in cash terms, progression for officers in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 respectively. benchmarked at eight per cent of the Federated ranks should be subject to a This will allow the current and new maximum of constables’ basic pay. satisfactory box marking in the annual pay scales to merge in 2016. n Recommendation 72 – The value of appraisal. This should be introduced n Recommendation 56 – Pay point 0 the deployment component of the for sergeants, inspectors and chief of the current sergeants’ pay scale X-factor should be reviewed every five inspectors in 2014/15 and for should be removed from April 2014 to years by the new police pay review constables in 2015/16. ensure that sergeants are always paid body. n Recommendation 85 – ACPO, and more than constables. n Recommendation 73 – The new the Police Federation and police staff n Recommendation 57 – The London police pay review body should review trade unions, along with other lead for the inspecting ranks in the the level and scope of regional interested parties, should establish a London forces should be maintained allowances for police officers. series of new national policing awards in the short-term. n Recommendation 74 – Chief for police officers and staff. n Recommendation 58 – The police Constables should be given discretion n Recommendation 86 – Pay pay review body should, in its first to pay regional allowances up to the progression for officers in the triennial review, consider further current maximum. superintending and ACC ranks should increasing the gap between the n Recommendation 75 – Forces that be subject to at least a satisfactory

Page 5 box marking in the annual appraisal. established when the EPAA is ranks should be introduced from April n Recommendation 87 – Double removed. The POA should be £600 per 2013. The amount of the allowance increment pay progression should be annum. should be £15 for each daily occasion abolished in April 2013. n Recommendation 102 – The of on-call after the officer in question n Recommendation 88 – Individual continued eligibility of the qualifying has undertaken 12 on-call sessions in bonus schemes for officers in the group of public order officers to the year beginning on 1 April. superintending, ACC and DCC ranks receive the Public Order Allowance n Recommendation 113 – The national should be abolished in April 2013. should be considered every five years on-call allowance should be reviewed n Recommendation 89 – The bonus by the new police pay review body. by the new police pay review body in scheme for Chief Constables should be n Recommendation 103 – The Police its first triennial review. abolished with effect from April 2013. Regulations 2003 should be amended n Recommendation 114 – Forces n Recommendation 92 – Chief officer to provide the Commissioners of the should compile clear management bonuses awarded to police officers for Metropolitan Police with the authority data on the voluntary deployment of performing outstandingly demanding, to determine an appropriate level of officers on-call. unpleasant, or important work should buy-out of the casual over-time of n Recommendation 115 – The Police be maintained, and police staff should specialist protection officers. Negotiating Board should be abolished be eligible to receive these payments n Recommendation 104 – The and replaced by an independent police on the same terms as officers. Commissioner of the Metropolitan officer pay review body by late 2014. n Recommendation 94 – An interim Police should determine an n Recommendation 116 – The Expertise and Professional appropriate buy-out of the casual membership and terms of reference Accreditation Allowance (EPAA) should over-time of specialist protection for the new police pay review body be introduced from April 2013. It officers which results in a greater should be as specified in Chapter 10 should reward qualifying officers for harmonisation of the pay of specialist of this report. the skills they use in the four stated and royalty protection officers. n Recommendation 117 – Once the priority functions: neighbourhood n Recommendation 105 – In 2017, the police pay review body has been policing; public order; investigation; recommended police officer pay established, police pensions should be and firearms. The EPAA should be review body should reconsider the handled by the Police Advisory Boards £600 per annum, paid monthly. It buy-out of sergeants’ casual over- of England and Wales, Scotland and should be abolished when the time. Northern Ireland. Specialist Skills Threshold is n Recommendation 106 – Annual Data n Recommendation 118 – The Senior introduced. Returns from forces should include Salaries Review Body should take n Recommendation 95 – A Foundation separate breakdowns of over-time responsibility for setting the pay of Skills Threshold should be introduced hours worked, and total over-time Chief Constables, Deputy Chief at the fourth point of the constables’ spend for constables and sergeants. Constables and Assistant Chief pay scale by 2016 at the latest. n Recommendation 110 – The Constables by 2014. n Recommendation 96 – Every definition of unsocial hours for police n Recommendation 121 – The chair of constable should attempt the officers and staff should be the PABEW should ensure issues for its Foundation Skills Threshold, and only harmonised as work between 8.00pm consideration are discussed with those who pass should move up the and 6.00am, with all days being of greater despatch and efficiency, and pay scale. Constables should be equal weight. that as far as reasonably practicable re-tested every five years. n Recommendation 112 – A national they are disposed of within six months n Recommendation 97 – A Specialist on-call allowance for the Federated of being raised. Skills Threshold should be introduced at the final pay point of all police Quotes... the public, and said: “We need to officer pay scales up to and including ensure that we will not create a chief superintendent, by 2016 at the Tom Winsor: “It is clear that the two-tier system where performance is latest. existing pay system is unfair and measured on the number of arrests inefficient. It was designed in 1920 and rather than on benefit to the public.” n Recommendation 98 – Officers who has remained largely unchanged since The Association of Chief Police pass the Specialist Skills Threshold test 1978.” Officers’ lead on workforce should move up to the pay maximum “Officers who work on the front- development, Chief Constable Peter for their rank, and receive an line, exercising their powers as Fahy said: accredited qualification. The test constables in the most difficult “Chief officers have been clear that should be re-taken every three years. circumstances, have nothing to fear we will need radical approaches to n Recommendation 99 – The Specialist from this review.” absorb the current and future budget Skills Threshold should apply only to Home affairs select committee cuts and maintain the protection of those roles that require the warranted chairman called on the the public. At the same time we must powers or expertise of a police officer. Government to pause and discuss the not put in danger the core ethos of n Recommendation 101 – A Public “potential damaging impact” of the service and self-sacrifice in policing Order Allowance (POA) should be recommendations with the police and that has served this country well.”

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