Marko Kilpi (co), who worked as a police officer, remembers being “stretching the penny” in police times. Citizens have no reason to worry during the police strike, Kilpi assures.
Before the politician’s career, Marko Kilpi worked as a police officer. Petteri Paalasmaa
Member of the Coalition, CopsPolice Marko Kilpi, who was seen in the series, was seven years old when police strikes in Finland.
– And now again. I have to say that this is a very historic moment, not even every decade, Kilpi describes to Iltalehti by phone on Monday night.
Police will start the strike on Tuesday, April 15. The JUKO Board of Directors and the Advisory Committee of the State Sector unanimously rejected the national mediator’s reconciliation proposal as a collective and collective agreement for nearly 80,000 state-owned employees.
Kilpi has made his career as a police officer in the so -called ‘field work’. He says he has always received additions in addition to his basic salary.
– Demanding work must be properly compensated. Police work is becoming more and more demanding all the time. The challenges and things that the police must respond to in society are tough, Kilpi continues.
– Especially in the Helsinki metropolitan area, there is something to do to do the pay of the police. I remember in time when we had a big family and a lot of expenses, I had to count the pennies and sometimes stretch to do well, he describes.
According to the negotiating organization, the level of wage increases in the proposal of the national mediator did not meet the objectives set. JUKO requires 7.8 % wage increases, compared with 7.1 % in the salary increases.
Vocation
Kilpi says police work is a vocation profession that is not followed by pay.
– When the police school asks who has come here for big accounts, there are not many hands to rise there. Here we are in the vocation, but it is not enough for the vocation to be enough to feed many mouths, Kilpi sums up.
Kilpi also wants to highlight changes in police work over the decades. Russia’s hybrid influence also affects the work of the police.
– If we imagine that there are threatening situations in Finland, even an armed activity, it is the police who respond to it. No Defense Forces. Police must be able to respond to such situations, Kilpi says.
Today, the spectrum of tasks is huge to the police, Kilpi describes.
– The job description is constantly expanding as there are threats from street gang to organized crime, and of course the ever -increasing drug problem. They are really big things, and at the same time, you should deal with a pretty normal criminal investigation. Then there people feel that they do not get the right compensation for their work.
– It’s not that way, but officials want to be narrow but long.
Kilpi states that citizens have no reason to worry about safety during the strike.
– I don’t believe in anything like this. This does not mean that all police action will cease to this place. Yes, help is available. Certainly such investigative and other things where you can strike, with their strikes. There is no reason for any fears, after all, this goes in the same way as in other similar areas, Kilpi concludes.