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I had a look yesterday at the wages link for the Brandon City Police and I was absolutely appalled. Now I realize these guys go to work everyday and do a "hard" job, but is it really that hard to write up a few petty driving infractions? Now I have two trades, college education and started in engineering and logic controllers. Meaning I have at least three times as much education as 90% of the force and I work 10.5 hours a day Monday to Friday and manage about 45 people in my department. Yet when you compare salaries, I am making $40,000 a year less than some of these police officers. I am making less money than some of these starting officers. What education do these officers need even that entitles them to the large salaries? Don't most of them only have High School, or at best the 8 month pre-employment course from ACC? Does eight months of education really entitle you to rob the public's pockets for such large salaries?