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Originally Posted by Aliantha
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It's a fairly comprehensive process to get into the police force over here and yet we still have undesirables wearing a badge too.
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Mostly true, but keep in mind it takes MUCH longer to become an electrician or plumber than it does to become a police officer. (Ok, the police are getting full-time specialist training, and the tradesmen are mostly building up on-the-job apprenticeship skills).
And I find it most amusing to hear a Queenslander saying that police are underpaid.
There used to be a solution for that ...
But seriously, that was a perfect example of police being underpaid, and so good police not joining or staying in the job, and bad cops taking matters into their own hands. Pay em well.
More money doesn't just mean more police of the same standard, it means better paid, better trained police, and the better pay *should* attract more high-quality candidates. Should.