This legislation is looking a bit dog-tired
I’m not one for shouting about the need for new laws every time some story hits the headlines. I tend to take the viewpoint that most things can be adequately covered within existing laws rather than...
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Back in the eighties, on the miners’ strike, we were thrown together with police forces from all over the country as we policed the mines around Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. One of the memories of...
View ArticleWhere there’s blame, there’s a claim
Police searching for missing 12-year-old Tia Sharp have found a body, in her grandmother’s house. This won’t be a surprise to many readers of this blog. Nor will the ensuing stories over the next days...
View ArticleMore bad news for the Olympic haters
News today that police made 242 arrests during the Olympic games. Considering that 139 of them were for ticket touting, I don’t think that’s a bad figure considering the size of the thing and the...
View ArticleAnother day, another…
…wait for the Ambulance service. Regular readers may feel that I have a bee in my bonnet about this one, given the amount of stories of late that I’m posting. And I know the garden isn’t all that rosey...
View ArticleThings must change
Today saw the memorial service for PC Ian Dibell, who was shot and killed whilst off duty, when he intervened in a dispute between neighbours in Essex in July this year. Who knew? I missed the start of...
View ArticleThere are no targets
The public voice of the control room will tell you there are no targets. Calls into the control room are dealt with on merit, to the best of the call-taker’s ability and are resolved at the point of...
View ArticleThere’s only one side who are wrong
I’ve been saying for years that one of the biggest reasons this country is in such a shite state is because people do not fear consequences. When I was growing up, I was taught that whatever I did had...
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Today saw the 9th annual National Police Memorial Day which saw a Police Memorial Service at York Minster, dedicated to the memory of the 4,000 police officers who have died on duty in the last 100...
View ArticleThat was worth it, then
The Police and Crime Commissioners election, what a farce. How many of you exercised your democratic rights to vote? not many I’m guessing. I did, I went to the polling station. there were 6 staff...
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