The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

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I had promised on taking office that I would see my members - the rank and file mostly. I make sure that I am here (in his office at police headquarters), sometimes as early as 6:30 am. It's a free period, free in the sense that you can walk in; and I see people coming from as far as Westmoreland.

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But rallying the troops turned it around for me to some extent.

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