lolli_pop Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 I can't understand the reasoning. Ask them then. It may all become wonderfully clear and your life will be enriched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 Ask them then. I'll avoid asking them the time. That'll be another £35 grand on their phone bill if everyone did that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolli_pop Posted January 22, 2012 Share Posted January 22, 2012 :)I'll avoid asking them the time. That'll be another £35 grand on their phone bill if everyone did that. Use the internet, silly. Think how much it will add to your life knowing. Do you want to go to your deathbed with that question still rattling around your head? Your life will quite possibly be ruined if you don't get that definitive answer. I'm sure the Met won't at all mind answering yet another pointless non-story FOI request just to satisfy your curiosity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawny1970 Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 Use the internet, silly. Think how much it will add to your life knowing. Do you want to go to your deathbed with that question still rattling around your head? Your life will quite possibly be ruined if you don't get that definitive answer. I'm sure the Met won't at all mind answering yet another pointless non-story FOI request just to satisfy your curiosity. hahahah, talk an unwelcome rant against someone who had a constructive comment, tell you what, if this thread annoys you to the point of insulting people, then don't read any more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolli_pop Posted January 23, 2012 Share Posted January 23, 2012 hahahah, talk an unwelcome rant against someone who had a constructive comment, tell you what, if this thread annoys you to the point of insulting people, then don't read any more Who said I was annoyed? I gave him a helpful link. If you think any of my post was insulting you live a very sheltered life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rd Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 We all knew the Met are bent and racist but just how is £35,000 on phone calls to the speaking clock justified? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16616790 "So what does the spend on the speaking clock represent? The force spent £16,879 on calls to the service in 2010/11. At 31p per call, that's just under 54,500 calls over the year. That works out as 1.5 calls to the speaking clock for each officer, or in other words represents each officer in the force using the service just once or twice each year. Is that unreasonable? Accurate time is occasionally important to police, when noting chronologies in reports or ahead of operations. It's not hard to imagine police officers needing to sync their watches (or phones) on particular operations on occasion, or perhaps occasionally mistrusting their computer's clock when trying to timestamp a report. Given the wages of a typical police officer (national average £38,918 for sergeant or below), if such a phonecall saves even a minute of an officer's time, it's an overall cost saving to the public." And an interesting point "Buying even a cheap watch for each officer would cost considerably more: a £10 watch per officer would likely keep bad time and cost in excess of £340,000 – and so have to last 18 years to make any cost saving whatsoever, even assuming zero staff turnover." Source: The Guardian, an some would say not the most Police friendly paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 "So what does the spend on the speaking clock represent? The force spent £16,879 on calls to the service in 2010/11. At 31p per call, that's just under 54,500 calls over the year. That works out as 1.5 calls to the speaking clock for each officer, or in other words represents each officer in the force using the service just once or twice each year. Is that unreasonable? Accurate time is occasionally important to police, when noting chronologies in reports or ahead of operations. It's not hard to imagine police officers needing to sync their watches (or phones) on particular operations on occasion, or perhaps occasionally mistrusting their computer's clock when trying to timestamp a report. Given the wages of a typical police officer (national average £38,918 for sergeant or below), if such a phonecall saves even a minute of an officer's time, it's an overall cost saving to the public." And an interesting point "Buying even a cheap watch for each officer would cost considerably more: a £10 watch per officer would likely keep bad time and cost in excess of £340,000 – and so have to last 18 years to make any cost saving whatsoever, even assuming zero staff turnover." Source: The Guardian, an some would say not the most Police friendly paper. You can get a cheap casio quartz watch for £4, less if you buy in bulk. Should be accurate to within 10 or 20 seconds per year. It's faster to look at a watch than dial the speaking clock. Maybe officers could use their own watch like the rest of us do? Maybe 'being able to tell the time' could be a requirement for recruiting new Police? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riche Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 unemployed people spend our taxes on beer and fags and send money home to Pakistan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolli_pop Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 You can get a cheap casio quartz watch for £4, less if you buy in bulk. Should be accurate to within 10 or 20 seconds per year. It's faster to look at a watch than dial the speaking clock. Maybe officers could use their own watch like the rest of us do? Maybe 'being able to tell the time' could be a requirement for recruiting new Police? A £4 watch for 34,000 officers would cost £136,000 A £2 watch for 34,000 officers would cost £68,000 Both more than a £35,000 phone bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anywebsite Posted January 24, 2012 Share Posted January 24, 2012 A £4 watch for 34,000 officers would cost £136,000 A £2 watch for 34,000 officers would cost £68,000 Both more than a £35,000 phone bill. Using their own watches would cost how much? People in other jobs are expected to have their own watch. Your figures assume every officer should be issued a new watch every 2 years, they probably last longer than that, even cheap casio watches are very reliable. If they get a bulk deal on casio watches at £2 each then they only have to last an average of 4 years to make a saving, that's not counting the time saving in checking a watch versus dialling & listening to the speaking clock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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