WA's top cop knows plans will upset police WESTERN Australia's top policeman has foreshadowed a battle with his own officers over his refusal to grant requests for more pay and more holidays, among other reforms. At the opening of the state's police union conference on Monday, Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan outlined coming reforms, including a plan to remove up to 400 officers not fit enough for the frontline. Union president George Tilbury immediately flagged potential industrial action, saying he would not accept officers being "chucked on the scrap heap" after putting their bodies on the line. "They have to endure more on a daily basis, and are scrutinised to nth degree ... and what has changed is a distinct lack of respect for officers," Mr Tilbury said. It is a sad reality of policing that you will be spat at, bitten, kicked, punched, headbutted, pushed, shoved, sworn at and abused. These conditions need to be taken into account when the government considers wage negotiations. Mr O'Callaghan said he was determined to throw out old school attitudes, including the belief that unfit officers had a job for life. He added that demands for more leave and pay rises above the rate of inflation would be strongly resisted. "Police will be told to drive up certain roads, and they will be told what sort of offences to focus on ... that is going to piss some people off," Mr O'Callaghan said. (With) any sort of reform you will get resistance, we expect it and we will have to work through that. The union conference goes for two days and discuss issues ranging from officers being issued sunglasses and handbags, being allowed to grow beards, and what they are expected to do during a tropical cyclone.