And yet... Take a police officer who throughout his career never made it beyond PC, get's promoted to SGT just before the pension qualifying period and retires 2 years later on a SGTs lump sum and pension. He's then immediatley re-employed on one of the numerous Civvy police roles that aren't subcontracted (unlike the military) and therefore pay's him a decent wage. Add on to that a lifetime of overtime fiddled by attending an incedent 'just before shift change' - gotta finish the paperwork you know.... And you'll see there's a c*cking great scam going on in this country from people in uniform that are virtually untouchable.
Any politician got the cohones to take it on?
This is a thread about how badly the MOD/government are treating armed forces personnel so why does someone have to start slagging the police off as a part of it and use hearsay and rumour more suited to the Daily Mail rather than facts to do so?
Police pensions are currently going through their second major reform in something like the last 8 years. Contributions are increasing and we are likely to go to a career average scheme. No sergeants I know have been promoted to the rank just before retiring in fact the majority seem to have served 5-10 years before either passing their promotion exams, getting a regging slot or being confirmed permanently in the rank. All the overtime I see is well and truly earnt and if we respond to an incident just before the shift changes then that is because that is what is expected of us as a part of the job. Paperwork is generally done by the most appropriate officer so arresting someone before the shift changes involves booking them into custody, an arrest statement and some sort of handover package to the next shift so that they know the circumstances of the arrest. As for being 'untouchable' as you put it the government seems to be hell bent on pissing off as many servicing constables as possible by reforming pensions, freezing pay, and getting Tom Winsor to regurgitate something Cameron wrote in 1993 and calling it an independent report, then to cap it all deciding that he is the most suitable candidate to become HMIC. Whilst all that is going on they have opened the way for privatisation with companies such as G4S being able to buy up as many police services as possible leaving only response and beat bobbies untouched.
About the only fact you managed to squeeze into your tirade from your ivory tower is that once many PC's retire they go on to work in similar roles for private companies, but isn't that what many ex forces do - pilots retire and fly for airlines or squaddies retire and join the police.