I have known a few ex-poodles. They realised that although the job is satisfying, it does not pay well at all. Many of their peers were earning at least 30% more in the private sector after a few years while their salary were slowly crawling up. Desipte the lower salary, they were disallowed from holding another job therefore limiting their income to the miserable amount.
They understand that while in other jobs, their could be easily be given the sack if they make mistakes but they could be sent to prison if they makes mistakes during their poodle year, making it not worthwhile at all.
With so many restrictions and lower salary, no wonder people leave.
uncle here was one of the poodle many years back. wow wow!
during my time, mata very garang! still using the motorola walkie talkie! we use it to throw at people and the walkie talkie still can "send over". bangla, mama and indon see us will look down and siam us. during that time, Police Constable ( lowest rank, now no more liao. now only use in demoting officers to PC and sack from the force.) take home only 900+. but bunch of us are happy, we love going to work. all the kaki very good and the espirit de corp was very strong.
but things started to change. too many restrictions and to tie down the garang ones. so all the garang mata resigned and left sissy poodle behind. too many senior officers, too many scholars and too many brilliant ideas. one come, stay for 3 yrs. new ideas, implement new things. 3 yrs up, got promoted and left. new one come, same thing again. what never change is those who are below to make things work, but not rewarded accordingly.
thats why poodle force always have those pension soon and very new only. but not those in the middle. people will keep on resign and resign after sometime. because there is not leadership in all the senior officers.
orang lama always said police force is the step son and saf is the first son of the gov, which is true. anything must wait for saf to implement, then poodles will follow. budget cannot fight also. must make do with inferior things and welfare. police are facing real situations everyday, every min. not like saf, exercise, duty and standby only.
last but not least, VSC is the biggest joke. when on active duty, regular not only jaga SC( NS police) and even the VSC! they are useless! VSC are MHA cheapo way of increasing head count of spf! VSC come once in a while to have fun! like playing police and thief! but this one is playing REAL police and thief with REAL police power and REAL firearm. a lot of them are power hunger public, like to show power! some VSC just want the warrant card to protect themselves. :S they want action, but we regular have to make sure they dont hurt themselves like a nanny! imagine a regular with a bunch of VSC in a van going to check people or attend case. i think the regular must be thinking of report sick on the spot!
