A Welsh police officer spoke openly about her struggle to survive when she confronted Priti Patel about how she has to borrow money from her mum to make ends meet. Vicky Knight was just one of the officers who blasted the Home Secretary over poor police pay.
The detective constable, who said she worked in child protection as well as with vulnerable adults and has been working in the police for 23 years, asked Ms Patel if she would be able to “survive” on £1,200 or £1,400 a month. The single mother described how she had to borrow money from her own mother to pay the school dinner bills, and described herself and some colleagues as "desperately struggling to do the job that we love and to make ends meet".
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