英國警察新規定：不減肥就減薪
英國一項爲期18個月的警察薪資及工作狀況綜合調研日前提出建議，要求取消警隊內部強制裁員的禁令；同時建議所有警員每年進行體能測驗，連續三次未通過者將面臨減薪。該調研發現，倫敦警察中有一半以上的男警員體重超重，16%爲肥胖，另有1%屬嚴重肥胖。女警員的肥胖比例雖然不高，但也值得引起重視。除此之外，該調研還建議在引進高素質人才時直接晉升到高級職位，不再走逐級晉升的程序。據悉，第一批體能測試將於明年9月開始，測試標準會逐年提高。
All police officers should be made to take an annual fitness test, with a pay cut for those who repeatedly fail, a review said。
All police officers should be made to take an annual fitness test, with a pay cut for those who repeatedly fail, a review said。
In the Metropolitan Police, more than half (52 percent) of its male officers are overweight, a fifth (22 pe cent) are obese, and one in 100 are "morbidly obese" the report showed。
For women officers in the Met, a third (32 percent) are overweight, 16 per cent are obese and 2 percent are morbidly obese。
Tom Winsor, who has carried out the widest-ranging review of police pay and conditions in more than 30 years, said those who fail the test three times should be subject to disciplinary procedures and a pay cut。
Chief constables should be able to make any officer redundant as part of budget cuts, ending the prospect of a job for life, the report said。
It also recommended that applicants should be able to enter the police service directly at inspector rank, and, ''after rigorous testing'', at superintendent rank。
Mr Winsor said: ''It is clear that the existing pay system is unfair and inefficient。
''It was designed in 1920 and has remained largely unchanged since 1978.''
But he added: ''Officers who work on the front line, exercising their powers as constables in the most difficult circumstances, have nothing to fear from this review.''
Mr Winsor said: "I think the public will be surprised that after passing a fitness test at the point of entry, except in special units like firearms, physical fitness is not tested again in a 30, 35-year career."
An initial annual test requiring officers to reach level 5:4 on the bleep test should be brought in by September next year, he said。
This is equivalent to an average speed of 8.8kph (5.5mph) for three minutes 35 seconds, he said。
But this should get tougher by September 2018, along similar lines to the test currently used in Northern Ireland。
This includes climbing over walls and pulling bodies and was designed to reflect situations which "police officers do and can become involved in"。
Former West Midlands chief constable Sir Edward Crew, who worked on the review, said: "We are not looking for supermen."
Mr Winsor predicted that many officers would welcome the proposals, saying they would see it "as a necessary protection for themselves and the public"。
