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I know there's a few serving officers on here, so here goes again... One of my chums is in the Met. Interestingly (or not) he qualified as a solicitor and packed it in to go into the Met based on 25 years service, the life he wanted and a (good) pension he could predict to receive and at a predicted retirement age. My mate is now probably 15 years in, and has had the rug pulled on his pension by the government. He asked me about "suing the government" a few months ago. Normally when a client asks me about "suing the government" (or the Queen) I press the red button. However, I had a little gander into the whole shebang and there is a whiff. Since then, I have had 3 phone calls in the last month from serving officers who also want to sue the government about the pension and retirement plan they were missold. I know that serving officers can't join a trade union but at the same time I don't see how the rank and file police force allow themselves to be represented by a Police Federation which clearly is not constituted to be representative of the rank and file or broad police force / service. The whole set up seems genuinely antiquated. Maybe the internet will allow the police across the country to get organised and mobilised? I've seen the police pension FB page, but like any on line bullet in board or forum the key message gets lost quickly in the posts that follow. 1,000 police officers donating £500 plus VAT each would get the ball rolling with a QC 10,000 police officers donating £500 plus VAT each would get the issues decided in Europe.