Police pay
Sir, — I write this letter to express my concern that t’-e Police Association is even thinking about direct action, let alone contemplating implementing it; and to clarify one or two issues about. the wages of policemen. Let us hope that someone in the Government takes notice before this nation is faced with a situation of which it has had no pr.-vious experience, i.e., a police strike. It is stated that the traffic officers receive much higher penal time payment. I would not be permitted to release the ex-ct figures but it would suffice to say that the police receive about one-third of what traffic officers receive. Note also that traffic officers took direct action before increases in their salaries. Such is the gravity of this matter that it would be absolutely essential for the Government to have urgent talks with the Police Association on their wages plight. — Yours, etc., R. A. COOK. April 15, 1980.
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