Obviously if police TFO's dont get recognition, they'll be gone! The civvies will take over on lower salaries and probably join unison on day one. This is where NPAS could be undermined big time! Hope they can see this coming.
What bugs me is that very senior civil servants together with senior cops either don't or can't see the technical merits of the post of TFO - how on God's earth are these same lords and masters going to grip the technicality of NPAS as an operational entity.