Lee Broadbent stepped down as chair of the Greater Manchester branch of the Police Federation in a row about pensions
The boss of the Greater Manchester branch of the 'police union' has stepped down just a year into the job in a row about police pensions.
Some 14 months into the job, Constable Broadbent has announced his resignation from the role amid disagreement with other Police Federation leaders about the challenge he led on the police pensions, which he believed discriminated against female officers.
"It has been made clear to me that my involvement in the Pensions Challenge/current litigation is problematic. I feel there has been an irreparable breakdown in working relationships largely due to the litigations being brought, for which I have been deemed the figurehead despite merely asserting my legal rights along with thousands of our colleagues.
"Sadly our team is fractured, distracted and it has been made abundantly that I do not have the confidence or support of your branch board, despite a democratic process which saw me elected by members fairly and transparently.
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