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Press releasesREF: PR/61/07 DATE: 28th November 2007 To: ALL POLITICAL PRESS RELEASE Prison Service Attempt to Stop Charitable Collection By The POAThe Director General of the Prison Service, Phil Wheatley, is threatening to suspend POA members for wearing their newly commissioned union badge. The National Chairman of the POA Colin Moses said: “With all the problems the Prison Service is currently facing, with cuts to its budget and the ongoing crisis of the prison population, it is typical of this Director General to attempt to divert the attention of the public from his mismanagement of the Service by attacking the professional men and women who work for him. Mr Wheatley appears to be bereft of ideas on how to move the Prison Service forward and is far more intent on picking a fight with the POA over any subject he can. It really is a pitiful position.” The POA General Secretary, Brian Caton added: “Unfortunately, members of the Prison Service Management Board are clearly and deliberately engineering a dispute between POA and the Prison Service. The question should be asked of them, Why? I believe it is because they know that in the very near future the prison system could explode because of their mismanagement and the Governments under funding of the Service for years. I think they are engineering a dispute so they can shift the blame from themselves to the POA. We will not let the public be duped in this way.” All funds raised through the sale of our new badge are to be donated to Great Ormond Street Hospital. A copy of the “offending” badge is attached for information and use.
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