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Mainly a blog site about Policing…….Mainly.
Author: Alan Wright
Emergency Services’ Budgets
In the twilight of my writing ‘career’ I thought I might try something different, and write about something I know nothing about, budgets. Some may say that I’ve been getting away with it for years, but Policing is something I do know something about, although not as much as the armchair experts obviously.… Read the whole postRead Whole Post
Does Policing Have A Retention Crisis?
It was only a handful of days ago that I wrote a piece about a potential retention crisis in the Met. That got me wondering if a similar problem existed in Policing in England and Wales generally.… Read the whole postRead Whole Post
The Met Still Having Problems
In the second of the brief updates on previous posts this one provides an update on Met Manpower, and Met Manpower Part 2.Once again, I don’t propose to say much about it, I’m quite happy for the Met’s Senior Management (not Leaders) to explain.… Read the whole postRead Whole Post
Stops And Knives
A week or so ago, one of my e-friends from X was Twitter asked whether I had an update on my comparison of Stop/Searches against Knife Crime. I didn’t have one at that time, but it didn’t take too long to knock him up a quick rough and dirty update.… Read the whole postRead Whole Post
Stubborn or Persistent? You Decide.
In August year I wrote a post relating to my submission of an an FOIA request to the Metropolitan Police concerning Murders and Ethnicity in London. How many murders had there been? … Read the whole postRead Whole Post
The Times They Are A Changed
Apologies to Mr Dylan. Those of you who read my posts regularly will note that this one is a tad different to the norm. Unless it relates to wrong-doing or corruption etc I almost always support the Police.… Read the whole postRead Whole Post
Austerity
Who remembers Austerity? Who could forget Austerity unless they were a child at the time? David Camoron and George Osborne gave birth to the idea of Austerity after the Tories’ less than convincing election win in 2010 which resulted in a less than satisfactory coalition with the Lib Dems.… Read the whole postRead Whole Post
Our Woeful Government
Hopefully just a short one today. It seems we’re due a General Election this year, and I couldn’t let that creep up on me without posting a few thoughts about the performance of our woeful government.… Read the whole postRead Whole Post
Lies Damn Lies and the Home Office
There has been discussion recently (again) about Police staffing levels, in the face of an increase in UK population, an increase in demand and the equivalent of an estimated 6,000 of the 21,000 found under the Police Uplift Programme being abstracted from Front Line Policing to fulfil roles usually performed by Police Staff. … Read the whole postRead Whole Post
Time To Stop Banging
Happy New Year to you all, however, cynical old me thinks that it’s time to stop banging my head against the much-abused wall. It suddenly occurred to me that I have been writing this blog for over 10 years, which is an awful lot of bollocks in anybody’s books. … Read the whole postRead Whole Post
