Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange

Re:Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange by sylvinus on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:03PM (#10375374)

It's pretty easy to find reasonable multiples on your assumptions. It's London and they might not be average policemen: salary x2 ; Overtime/nighttime: x2, Administrative overhead (they must spend time reporting, at the precinct, ...): x2 ; Multiple policemen (1 would not be enough to act): x3-x5 ; Management of those officers & briefings: x2-x3 ; That's already ~x100 and it's human costs only.

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Re:Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange by samstave on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:13PM (#10375439)

I don't believe most of these numbers. I'll be back later with a spreadsheet

Why am I being downvoted? Seriously, this math calculates to me differently in my head - so I am going to put a spreadsheet together to see if these costs are real.

Ill assume the avg salary stated above, plus the hours and schedules.

I can't believe that some beat officer is going to inflate costs 2x for doing reporting. I HIGHLY doubt there is that much paperwork for a simple shift change.

Further, the "cost" could be highly falsely inflated to justify the stopping of guarding Assange as they may see it a waste - and want to inflate how much waste there is so as to get easy agreement that "its not worth it"

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Re:Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange by ricksplat on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @05:27AM (#10379321)

They're probably not "Beat" cops, there are highly paid special branch and detectives too. Lets say on £80k each. There's all the intelligence activities that go into this. As somebody else mentioned overtime, other costs such as surveillance equipment, maintaining a situation room, heating, and food, helicopters, public relations christ the costs go on and on ...

Hahahahaha - "beat" officers

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Re:Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange by samstave on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @01:33PM (#10382029)

Heh, Yeah I didnt really mean "beat" officers, per se... but I am refering to officers that are simply guarding an already guarded building for political reasons...

I hadn't thought of the officers as being some elite force -- though I have no idea if they are, although assuming they may be lowly "beat"-like types is not a good assumption. :-)

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Re:Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange by TrevorJ on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:39PM (#10375616)

I don't think that adds up to x100 or even close but I see where you are coming from.

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Re:Police stop guarding embassy refuge of Julian Assange by nmc on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:54PM (#10375720)

Actually it adds (or, should I write, multiply) up to x48 if you take the lower bounds and x120 for the higher bounds that sylvinus provided above.

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