Hundreds of Victorian police officers have walked off the job from police headquarters as tensions over pay disputes deepen.
police officers have walked off the job from police headquarters as tensions over pay disputes deepen.
"You are the heartbeat of Victoria Police and today that heartbeat stops," Victoria Police Association chief executive Wayne Gatt said. New South Wales police just received pay rises of between 20 and 39 per cent - the largest in decades. Victoria's Police Association is demanding a 24 per cent pay rise over four years and eight-and-a-half hour shifts which would give officers an extra fourteen days off a year.
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