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Article: Federal Law Enforcement Pay, Benefits in Need of Overhaul, Report Says
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- The Washington Post
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- October 26, 2005
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Pay and benefits provided to federal law enforcement officers
should be revamped to make government service more attractive and to
foster "common-sense parity" in employment practices, according to a
congressional paper.
Law enforcement compensation has been shaped by "an inflexible
patchwork of outdated concepts" that do not meet the needs of federal
agents, investigators and police officers and hinder homeland
security "in today's post-9/11 environment," the paper said.
The 25-page paper was prepared by the Republican staffs of the
House and Senate federal workforce panels in hopes that it will serve
as a catalyst for a wide-ranging debate on how to update law
enforcement pay and ...