The GMB have for the last three years been negotiating with Chief Officer Team for the issue of covert protective vests to staff working as Imaging Unit staff and Crime Scene Investigators in the Regional Scientific Support Services, Calder Park. With the increase in violent crime and in particular knife crime the safety of our members is of paramount importance. As other Forces issue ‘protective vests’ routinely to their front line staff we in the GMB West Yorkshire Branch consider our members should be afforded the same degree of personal protective equipment as others. A Chief Officer Team formal paper has now been submitted and we await the outcome. We will continue our fight and let you know the outcome of the COT decision on this matter.
Posted: 13th May 2019