Overpaid Police Officers

Emails circulated to officers at Thames Valley Police offered "premium rates" of pay to those "with a raging credit card habit".

... volunteers were told that shifts, believed to be paid at £300 each, would give them time to "read a good book, take up botany or ornithology, study for your sergeant’s exam (or) work out the compound interest on a rest day’s pay"

Brits might also like to note that it costs around £200 per household per year just to pay for the various benefits of retired police officers.