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Police launch industrial action over pay dispute

Updated Tue Jun 7, 2011 12:36pm AEST

Officers are using their lights to warn motorists of speed cameras.

Officers are flashing their lights to warn motorists of nearby speed cameras. (ABC TV)

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Victorian Police have launched industrial action, as part of an on-going pay dispute with the State Government.

Officers have imposed administrative bans and flash police car headlights, warning motorists of nearby speed cameras.

The Police Association is pushing for a 4.5 per cent pay rise. They have rejected the Government's 2.5 per cent offer.

Association secretary, Greg Davies, says the action is sure to grab the government's attention.

"Unless they come to the table, come to their senses, these actions will continue indefinitely," he said.

"If they have to run until the next election they will, and by then, we'll be to a point where the lost revenue would have paid for several police enterprise bargaining agreements."

Mr Davies says police officers never like to take industrial action.

"The only reason for it is because Government have decided to make a pay offer to police that is one per cent below the inflation rate," he said.

The acting Police Minister, Robert Clark, says negotiations on an enterprise bargaining agreement with the Police Association are continuing in good faith.

He says the police industrial action will not affect public safety.

"Clearly the Government would prefer that the Police Association not be taking this industrial action, nonetheless it is industrial action that they are committed to take under Commonwealth fair work legislation," he said.

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doesnt look like what i saw this morning.

6am and it looks like they're out in full force.

saw an evo pulled over getting checked (6:15am ish)

and a crappydore ute pulled over and checked under the car(6:30ish)

this is a reason i converted my single cell cat to an actual cat last week.

They still have to do their rounds if scheduled. Other times they will be doing the flashing thing. And the schedule is in full force. I'd be more cautious. Even drove the daily in today on a Friday before the long weekend! No chances, had enough of supporting the Vic Police financially. Sif my Tax isn't enough

Isn't there industrial action at the moment???... :thanks::stupid::pwned::google::spam::ban: ...I think they won't be doing anything to raise money for the government until they get their pay raise...

But on that note... ...I don't know any cop that would put industrial action before public safety...

YAY for not having an import anymore. can drive without fear WOOT WOOT lol

Depends on the import. I drive an import and definitely drive with no fear. My car couldn't pull the frock off a nun.

Cops sitting with radar guns on Harkaway Rd, Berwick tonight. Nice to see they're doing it in an area they changed the speed limit from 80 to 60kph when they repaved the road recently. Good old Vic Pol, really a dangerous stretch of revenue, I mean road, there :)

Cops sitting with radar guns on Harkaway Rd, Berwick tonight. Nice to see they're doing it in an area they changed the speed limit from 80 to 60kph when they repaved the road recently. Good old Vic Pol, really a dangerous stretch of revenue, I mean road, there :)

Pack of assholes the lot of em'

Only met one nice cop, (well 2 if you include his partner) Grant from the forums one night pulled me over haha.

Pack of assholes the lot of em'

Only met one nice cop, (well 2 if you include his partner) Grant from the forums one night pulled me over haha.

Just to show what I mean, I actually took a screen dump of the old speed limit sign from Google Street View on Harkaway Rd, Berwick to prove it was once a 80kph zone (now signed 60kph until just after Old Coach Rd until recently). How is this stretch of road so unsafe and need to have TWO dedicated police cars sitting there targeting speeding there? Seriously, it's reasons like this why people have no faith in the system and then they get told it's not about revenue raising. What a joke.

I couldn't believe they were sitting there from 5PM until around 8:30PM tonight, such a ridiculous waste of resources.

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No shiiiit...so that's why there was a cop car parked on the median strip at the Bayswater Rd and Canterbury Rd intersection. There's a permanent "safety" camera there and he had his lights on but no one pulled over...confused the hell out of me.

Saw the exact same thing on Dalton road just as you get off the freeway was in my gts wonder what that's about

Um, TMU are a different division to the 'regular crimes' cops.

Traffic management unit

Are still cops Just like ciu will still pull you over for speeding or a traffic violation the tmu will still respond if there is a crime ie, shooting

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