However, Joe Grant, secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, said rank and file police officers had reservations about the role civilian workers would have in taking statements which will be used as evidence in court.
Cumbria Police have searched one property and arrested three people, two of them civilian workers for the force, after the cost of the car hire was leaked to a local newspaper.
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Meanwhile, Israel resumed some fuel shipments to Gaza on Wednesday, a week after Palestinian militants shot and killed two Israeli civilian workers at the Nahal Oz fuel terminal -- the only transit route for delivering fuel supplies to Gaza.
Furloughs of civilian workers, perhaps the most noticeable element of the cuts, aren't scheduled to start until early April.
The pay and benefits of military personnel stationed at these bases are exempted from sequestration, but just about everything else would be cut drastically during the last seven months of the fiscal year, meaning civilian defense workers would be furloughed, maintenance would be deferred, and dozens of other activities impacting local economies would be decremented.
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The incidents were brought to light by civilian mortuary workers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.
About 6, 000 airmen are stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, but when you add civilian federal workers and contract personnel, the size of the workforce there swells fourfold.
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The Faslane site currently employs 6, 700 military and civilian workers with that figure due to rise to 8, 200 by 2022.
This month, the Army also will freeze hiring for civilian jobs, release temporary workers and sign no new contracts.
The new defence secretary also said he was committed to making sure that both US troops and civilian workers were treated fairly and equitably.
In an effort to show that the U.S. government is serious about deficit reduction, President Obama is proposing that all civilian federal government workers receive a pay-freeze through 2012.
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