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Biased Media Reporting
Prior to Winsor1 being released huge amount of spin and lies were peddled in the media.
Nearly every report stated you got 4 hours for answering the telephone. It cannot be right to talk about overtime for answering the phone when even Winsor himself says on page 81 of his part1 report “I have not seen any evidence which could establish that some of the overtime abuses reported in the media occur are prevalent, in particular the assertion that officers claim a minimum of four hours’ overtime at time and a third for taking a short telephone call when off duty.”
Police officers pride themselves on honesty and integrity it is a shame those briefing against you our members with such scant regard for factual truth are sadly lacking in honesty and integrity.
The economic state of the country is being used as a smokescreen – why do we say this – click on these hyperlinks the views have not changed for 5 years or more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4615718.stm
On Tuesday 8th March 2011 on BBC news the political correspondent Nick Robinson gave inaccurate and misleading information about officers pay. The Police Federation of England and Wales made a verbal complaint to Nick Robinson They also wrote to the BBC making a formal complaint on behalf of PFEW. The comments made by Nick Robinson left a very sour taste.
The Police Federation of England and Wales have now received a written apology from the Editor of BBC News for any anger and distress the inaccuracy caused. So that it is also acknowledged in the public domain Nick Robinson has admitted his error in his blog today, which can be viewed at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/
We would ask for your views on whether this goes far enough?
