{"id":59224,"date":"2015-07-16T10:47:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T10:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9b60631115a1343584273728e7f9d0bd"},"modified":"2015-07-16T10:47:44","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T10:47:44","slug":"news-story-home-office-sets-out-pay-award-for-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59224","title":{"rendered":"News story: Home Office sets out pay award for police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Accepting the main recommendations of both the Police Remunerations Review Body (PRRB) and the Senior Salaries Review Body (SSRB), from 1 September 2015 police officers will receive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a 1% increase to base pay for all ranks.<\/li>\n<li>a 1% increase to the London Weighting payment.<\/li>\n<li>a 1% increase to the Dog Handlers\u2019 Allowance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This applies to all police officers in England and Wales. <\/p>\n<p>Home Secretary, Theresa May, said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Police officers play a vital role in this country, fighting crime and keeping us safe, so it is right they are rewarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The PRRB and the SSRB brought forward affordable proposals while balancing the need to recruit and retain the very best officers. I am grateful for their work and pleased that we are able to accept their main recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The increase is in line with the government\u2019s policy that public sector pay awards, including the police, should average up to one per cent in 2015-16. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home Secretary Theresa May announces a 1% pay increase for police officers in England and Wales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}