“前所未有”的谋杀案件导致警方考虑雇佣“零小时”制侦探 今年“前所未有”的谋杀调查数量可能促使Gwent警方采用“零小时”式合同雇佣侦探，以应对需求。
'Unprecedented' murder cases see police force consider 'zero-hours' detectives An "unprecedented" number of murder investigations this year could see Gwent Police hire detectives on "zero-hour" style contracts to cope with demand.
警务总长马克·霍布罗表示，该警队通常每年只会处理两到三起谋杀案调查，但过去10个月已启动11起。
Chief Constable Mark Hobrough said the force would normally see two or three murder probes a year, but has launched 11 in the past 10 months.
因此，警队不得不支付创纪录的加班费，并将社区警官从社区警务工作中抽调出来，以应对需求。
As a result it has had to fund record amounts of overtime payments and take neighbourhood officers away from community policing duties to cope with the demand.
霍布罗表示，如果明年趋势持续，这支1535人的警队将考虑使用额外的侦探，但未说明这些人员将从何处来或该计划如何运作。
Hobrough said the 1,535 officer-strong force would use the additional detectives if the same trend continues next year, but did not specify where they would come from or how the scheme would work.
霍布罗在蒙茅斯郡议员面前表示，如果需求持续，他将考虑更便宜的替代方案来支持调查，例如一种“近似零小时制”的情况，用于在警队辖区之外进行访谈或特殊调查。
Hobrough told Monmouthshire councillors that if demand continued he would consider cheaper alternatives to support investigations such as an "almost zero hours-type situation" to conduct interviews or special investigations outside the force's boundary.
但他补充说：“但那必须保持同等质量。”他还说，他不希望让员工面临倦怠的风险。
"But that has to be of the same quality," he said, adding that he did not want to risk burnout among his staff.
他说：“他们是参加这些事件的同一批人……他们是表现出色的年轻警官，我想确保我们好好照顾他们，让他们长期留在队伍中。” 警务总长描述了一起涉及婴儿的特殊狗攻击事件，称其为“绝对的悲剧”，并补充道：“我们的社区警官是第一批到达现场的人，这留下了创伤，这是必然的。”
He said: "They are the same people going to these incidents... They are young officers doing an outstanding job and I want to make sure we are looking after them and they stay with us long term." The chief constable described one particular dog attack involving a baby as an "absolute tragedy", adding: "Our neighbourhood officers were the first on the scene, it's left trauma, it is bound to.
“他们曾到蒙茅斯郡的两起谋杀案现场[在那两起案件中]，这些事件尤其令人心碎。我们的目标是确保照顾好这些团队，支持他们，让他们继续在岗、保持健康并健康地退役。” 霍布罗表示，在过去10个月里，警队处理的谋杀案数量通常需要两到三年才能积累。他说：“这对警官来说是巨大的消耗。”
"They've been to the two murder scenes [in Monmouthshire] which were particularly harrowing incidents. It's about making sure we look after the teams, to support them and keep them in service and healthy and leave healthy." Hobrough said in the last 10 months the force had dealt with the number of murders that would typically take place in two to three years. "That is a huge extraction for officers," he said.
霍布罗强调，这些事件之间没有关联，涉及的因素包括据称的有组织犯罪、心理健康问题、药物滥用和家庭暴力。“它们之间完全没有关联，”他说。
Hobrough stressed there was no link between the incidents, which involved factors ranging from alleged organised crime to mental health issues, substance misuse and domestic violence. "There is no correlation between them at all," he said.
霍布罗还表示，该警队作为支持全国部署协议的一部分，也应对了其辖区外的公共秩序抗议活动，并在应对山火时协助了消防部门。
The force had also responded to public order protests outside its areas as part of an agreement to support deployments nationally, as well as helping the fire service as it tackled wildfires, Hobrough said.
他说，尽管社区警官在今年上半年因应对巨大需求而被“调派”，但他们的数量仍处于“极低”的水平。“这正是我们不想看到的，”他说。
He said that while neighbourhood officers had been "extradited" in response to the major demands during the first half of this year, their numbers were still at an "incredibly low" level. "It's absolutely what we don't want," he said.
“过去，当人手不足时，社区警官通常会被调派去值班应对车辆，但现在情况已经不同了，”他说。
"Historically it used to be the go-to for community officers to staff response cars in a shortage, that isn't the case now," he said.