No No NO!!

Cannot believe that the question of giving the police the right to strike is even being discussed.  I would go completely the other way and make it illegal for firemen and ambulance crew to strike as well.  These are the emergency services for which we have the 999 system and it is essential that they are there when we need them.  As a quid pro quo their conditions of service have to be protected from the vagaries of economic or political interference but we can't have them holding the country to ransom whenever they feel like it.