'It's a very worrying environment'
Officers are leaving the PSNI because they cannot afford to stay, the chairman of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland has said.
"Some of our student officers have said their previous employers, especially in the hospitality trade, are asking them if they'd be willing to work a shift, and the reality is they'd be paid better for that shift than working a shift in the police, which is incredible," Mr Kelly told the PA news agency.
"But what we're seeing from the data is a lot of officers are choosing to leave earlier because they can't afford to be in the police anymore, or they don't feel the job is giving them the work-life balance they need to support themselves and their families." "It really is not a good picture going forward, we're not any different to the majority of the public service on this," said Mr Kelly.
"We're now in December; that should have been paid in September, and that's been exacerbated by a decision last year to stop incremental pay at the same time," he said. He compared the situation in Northern Ireland with policing in England and Wales, where respective forces have had multi-year budgets to help plan resources.
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