Daily Mail - Why so anti police? - MARTIN BECKFORD

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Just been told about another damning news report from the Daily Mail newspaper with the title

Police paid hundreds in bonuses simply for handling dead bodies: Outcry as officers 'get extra just for doing their job'
- Police get £500 bonus to attend a car crash, murder, or fingerprint a corpse
- It amounts to £100,000 a year despite all other bonuses being scrapped
- Even train drivers who witness suicides do not get similar payments
- Keith Vaz said: 'I would have thought these matters were part of the job'

Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2456877/Police-paid-hundreds-bonuses-simply-handling-dead-bodies-Outcry-officers-extra-just-doing-job.html
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When you read the article it covers reports from several forces that have made, intotal between £1000 and £2000

So if police get £500 to attend a car crash, murder, or fingerprint a corpse , they only attended 4 in a whole year.

What a load of rubbish.

Another reason why I refuse to purchase the paper
 
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^^ That too.

Most of our national press, tabloid or otherwise, since the News of the Screws fiasco, now consider police 'the enemy'.
 
I've attended a (Fatal RTCs, murders etc) and didn't get a penny.

The DM is, as usual as regards it's Anti -Police agenda, way off line. I believe a payment of £25 was payable if you had to fingerprint a corpse, usually if you were designated 'Mortuary Assistant'.

We had an incident where 52 dead Chinese were found in the back of an ISO Container in Dover Docks. A month or so later we had details of the guys facilitating their illegal arrival in the UK and it was decided all 52 would need to be searched again. One of the guys I worked with volunteered to search them once they had been removed from the Mortuary freezer and thawed out (about 48 hours) He tried to claim the £25 allowance and was awarded precisely that, £25 for searching all 52 of them.
 
Reporters use and abuse the Freedom of information act, and sensationalise anything they get back.

I recall reading a news story where cops had filled the wrong fuel in their motors. The spokesman for the policeforce hit the nail on the head when he gave the correct stats where the force had covered something stupid like 7 millions miles and cars had been filled with the wrong fuel about 6 times.
 
The DM get most of their attention from controversy, so anything they can print that will keep peoples attention and get people talking about them is all good for them in the long run.

As with all news you have to read in-between the lines and bare in mind the motives of the corporation writing the stories.
 
I once read an article in the DM that said an officer had accidentally fired of his taser 26 times! Don't let the fact that it's a Taser X26 get in the way of writing a shite story.

I don't know anyone who recieved a bonus payment and quite frankly I left the cops because of stories like this and the negative public reaction to them.
 
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