'Controversial police pay and conditions recommendations include: • Increasing the pension age for all officers to 60 (from 50). • Allowing chief constables to introduce compulsory severance across all ranks. Currently, only long-serving officers can be forced to retire on cost grounds. • An annual fitness test for officers, with pay cuts for those who fail a timed 15-metre \"shuttle run\" more than three times. The review found that 75% of Metropolitan policemen are overweight or obese -- more than the rate for the general population. • A minimum educational standard of three A-levels for new recruits. • Higher pay for more demanding officer and staff jobs. • Performance-related pay with scales linked to skills and performance rather than length of service. • An allowance to be paid for those officers working unsocial hours. • Direct entry for recruits to be allowed at inspector rank and above to bring in fresh talent, with at least 80 places a year targeted at top graduates from the best universities. A similar direct entry scheme for the ranks of superintendent and above to attract skilled specialists from the military, security services, industry and business. • A fast-track system in which a recruit could make inspector within three years instead of the current 17. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/15/police-annual-fitness-tests-compulsory-redundancies'
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