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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by silo2020 on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:18PM (#23785348)
Police in the UK are prohibited from taking any form of industrial action - so the Federation does not have the ability to create disruption (to forcibly get their way) in the way Police Unions in North America can (and frequently do).

The Federation represents officers up to Chief Inspector, the Association of Police Superintendents represents more senior officers, but below Chief Officer rank.

ACPO is for Chief Police Officers and is quite different. You should not conflate that as serving the same purpose at the Federation of AsPS.

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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by lazyasciiart on Thursday July 09, 2020 @05:52PM (#23785663)
Police in the US are also legally prohibited from industrial action. The fact that they do it anyway is just more evidence that they are out of control. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/01/what-is-bl...
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Re:Chicago Police Department shuts down its arrest API by lambertsimnel on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:59AM (#23788928)
British police officers might be prohibited from taking industrial action, but in 2004 many firearms officers protested by refusing to carry out their usual duties: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3973261.stm
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