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Old 20th September 2007 | 16:22
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Originally Posted by dallas
Many of our woes are resultant of unimaginative policies, compounded by thousands of deskbound officers who lack meaningful vision to improve the way we do business. We have created an environment that encourages superficial change and makes sustainable progress TFD, where feedback opportunities are rare, so we don't even know what we think as a force or what we could learn. Bureaucracy is rarely challenged as this is the trade of 'trouble makers', so instead those manning the pumps are regularly subjected to new initiatives that hinder, not help. Most significantly of all however, I feel our contribution to the battlefield - flying - has slipped several places down our priority list.
Of course you know that thousands is a gross exageration but I would suggest that may be it is the other way around, not enough of them. Also not enough bodies available on the rosters either. When there were even 10000 more the pain would have been a lot less.

With the small numbers available now, when you take out the sick, lame, lazy, special cases such as the staff courses etc etc the pot is pretty empty.

There must be a system though.

How about, as you say, advertise the jobs and you never know, they might even get a number of careerists volunteering.
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