November 2014

I Heard a Rumour, And I Didn’t Like It One Bit

In my state of euphoria yesterday following on from the #Plebgate findings I stumbled across a piece of “information”. I must first assure that I cannot verify this information but it is certainly plausible, and if I were still a serving warranted Police Officer I would be banging on my Fed Rep’ s door, and my boss’s door demanding some reassurance.… Read the whole post

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British Police: Sitting Ducks For Jihadist Fanatics? – A Guest Blog By Chris Hobbs

This has also been published in Huffington Post As counter terrorism awareness week commences front line police officers in London and elsewhere are becoming increasingly fearful that they are likely to become victims of savage targeted attacks on the streets of the UK by fanatical Islamist jihadists.… Read the whole post

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I’ll Have A Pint of Whatever The Home Secretary Is Drinking

Can somebody PLEASE tell an old codger WTF is going on? In the last couple of months we’ve had (and this is just what my old grey cells can remember) Theresa May orders police: Stop abusing our terror laws to hack phones and spy on journalists  “Police are to be stripped of the power to secretly spy on journalists’ phones, striking a major blow for press freedom.”……..”The… Read the whole post

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Complaints, Discipline and Social Media – How Big Is The Problem?

There have been a few high-profile cases recently of officers falling foul of their Force Policies on Social Media and incurring the displeasure of PSD/DPS.  The ones that come most readily to mind are Newquay Sarge, Gary Watts, James Patrick and Tony Ryan, although in the case of the last all does not appear to be clear, RYAN was sacked by his Force for being @TheBritishCop, but he maintains it wasn’t him and that the wrong person has been sacked.… Read the whole post

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Image Over Integrity – Mark’s Story

Here is the first of what I am hoping will turn into a Mini Series of posts on the theme of Image Over Integrity. I do hope that Tessa Munt MP doesn’t mind but the bulk of this story cannot be told any better than by quoting her own newspaper article, and her blog, from March this year, so sit back, pour yourself a stiff one and have a crack at this one, I have to say that I was staggered by the whole thing; ” A couple of years ago, a man from Cheddar walked into my office and told me what had happened to him and his family.… Read the whole post

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