Thursday, January 24, 2008

Police challenge pay 'betrayal' in the courts

By Christopher Hope and John Steele Last Updated: 6:38am GMT 24/01/2008

Police officers have launched a High Court battle to overturn the Government decision to ignore an independent panel and cap this year's pay award at 1.9 per cent.
Yesterday more than 22,000 off-duty officers marched through Westminster to protest about the pay deal in the biggest gathering of police officers in Britain's history.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=PWLBOKSBCUOTHQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2008/01/24/npolice124.xml

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