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Women unfit to be Police officers?
Meercam
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There were 35,471 female officers out of 129,956 officers in the 43 forces of England and Wales (including central service secondments), representing 27.3% of the total.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2013/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2013
Hundreds of police officers in England and Wales failed a fitness test due to become mandatory later this year.
Interim results submitted to the College of Policing from 39 forces show that 851 officers fell short of the mark - out of 30,000 tests.
Of those who failed the test, 253 were male and 598 female.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27581533
When we apply the percentage for overall female officers (27.3%) to the number of tests (30,000) we can estimate that around 8190 WPCs took the test. Their failure rate would therefore be 7.3%.
Using the same method male failure rate is only 1.2%.
Proof indeed that women are less suited to the demands of the modern day Police Service.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2013/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2013
Hundreds of police officers in England and Wales failed a fitness test due to become mandatory later this year.
Interim results submitted to the College of Policing from 39 forces show that 851 officers fell short of the mark - out of 30,000 tests.
Of those who failed the test, 253 were male and 598 female.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27581533
When we apply the percentage for overall female officers (27.3%) to the number of tests (30,000) we can estimate that around 8190 WPCs took the test. Their failure rate would therefore be 7.3%.
Using the same method male failure rate is only 1.2%.
Proof indeed that women are less suited to the demands of the modern day Police Service.
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Give me the raw figures and I will.
For example on average men are taller than women, it could give them an advantage in climbing exercises.
There's more to being a good police officer than fitness levels.
Regardless, you have provided proof that the 598 WPCs (and the 253 males) who failed the test are less suited to be police officers in fitness terms than all of those (male and female) who passed it. Nothing more.
It appears many are unfit.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27581533
Well according to that report 853 out of 30,000.
I'm finding it hard to find that too alarming tbh:)
Either way concluding that those numbers provide, seems like a bit of a reach.
It almost seems as though there was a pre existing axe to grind ;-)
My mate in GMP is one of them. When he said he was going in the Police, myself and another mate of ours who had been in the army got him prepared for his fitness test, and spent the whole spring and summer of that year every evening doing hill reps with him on a steep hill near where we live. Up and down, up and down. We were already reasonably fit, and we got our mate ship shape.
Fast forward 15 years and he is massively overweight. But he's a big drinker.
Fitness levels will deteriorate over the years, and if they all have to do this, there needs to be a process in place to cover that.
Not all officers need to be as fit as new recruits going onto shift work on the streets.
Balance and common sense needs applying here, unless this is a means of getting rid of older officers to cut back on pension payments.
I don't suppose I would have passed the current fitness test during all the time I was a police officer. I was pregnant for several months, for one reason. Since I was working on a murder enquiry during this time, it did not really make any difference. I worked the same hours and did the same work as everyone else on the enquiry, and indeed I have always believed that I was found rather useful, being naturally thorough and good at high-volume intelligence information.
How much of their total service do you suppose a police officer spends either running or fighting? I should think it is less than 0.001%.
I mean, if a lot of these women are in admin' roles then it really doesn't matter if they're fat/old/short-sighted/whatever, as long as they're capable of doing their job.
A lot of roles require a score a lot higher than 5.4.
From the report by Tom Winsor, Chief Inspector of Constabulary.
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130312170833/http://review.police.uk/publications/part-2-report/report-vol-1?view=Binary
To expect all officers to have the same fitness levels is a joke, and unnecessary. The likelihood of older officers, away from front line work being deployed at riots is very slim.
This man is on a cost cutting mission, and getting rid of older officers saves a lot of money. I suspect this is what this is about.
I don't see how anyone's penis status makes them more or less suited for any job.