silo2020

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.

Really sorry to hear this, but you're screwed. I had a similar situation and was totally ignored like you are.

My only way out was to let the card expire (thankfully, in my case, it was just about to) by totally ignoring the flood of 'renew now or we stop the paid services' emails.

Letting the card expire stopped the charges but also shut down my GC services. I had used the time to migrate things off and abandoned anything that was left (like maps API).

A chargeback will end up with the vicious blocking and deleting of your gmail and everything else you have with Google. If you're going to do that, backup/offload everything you can first as it's all going to be crispy fried by Google the moment you do the chargeback.

Never use Google for anything important that you cannot afford to lose at a moments notice.