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Enough Is Enough

Reading Time: 2 minutes Since 2010 we have lost approx 20,000 Police Officers from our streets. Enough Is Enough The point has  been (fairly) made that those numbers would not have prevented recent terrorist attacks.  This is true.  BUT those numbers give us hugely increased resilience and flexibility to deal with intelligence gathering, monitoring of suspects and dealing with

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It’s Not About The Numbers

Reading Time: 2 minutes OH YES IT IS Last night Home Secretary Amber Rudd, appearing on BBC Question Time, repeated Theresa May’s mantra “it’s not  about the numbers”. Well, as political campaigning for the General Election resumes today, I will have the temerity to challenge that concept. You cannot Police this (or any 1st world country) on the cheap.

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Yes Folks, It’s Pantomime Season Once More

Reading Time: 3 minutes Oh no it isn’t. Oh, yes it is. Last night saw a public meeting, chaired by the Metropolitan Police, to discuss and seek to explain the events leading up to the fatal shooting of a young black man, Jermaine Baker. Let me be clear, I KNOW no more than anybody else, why would I? However,

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Thought For The Day

Reading Time: 3 minutes First and foremost my thoughts are with the victims  of yesterday’s terrible incident at Leytonstone, I hope they can all make a full recovery, and quickly. Before that however, I had already had a conversation on Twitter following on from this tweet of mine; https://twitter.com/alanw47/status/673072086903095296 My point was, and still is, that we should take

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Is It Time To Arm The British Police?

Reading Time: 3 minutes The question is really aimed at my former colleagues but please feel free to join in whoever you are. The world has changed after Paris 2015. First Charlie Ebdo and the accompanying attacks at the beginning of the year. Then, tragically, Friday the 13th. The events unfolding within the Bataclan Theatre must have been horrific

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Was It April Fools Day Yesterday?

Reading Time: 4 minutes I was absolutely stunned at the amount of total bolleaux in the British Press yesterday in relation to Policing. It was so bad that I actually find it difficult to put it in an order of “badness”. a) We have the two bold headlines in The Independent; Black people still far more likely to be

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Call Yourself Professional? You’re A Disgrace

Reading Time: < 1 minute The Armed Police of England and Wales regard themselves as ‘professional’.  They undergo hours/days/weeks/months of training, and for what? Figures recently released show that during 14,864 operations in 2013-14 the actually fired their weapons only TWICE. What are we paying you for?  Not to stand around not shooting people, that’s for sure. This means that

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What Price A Firearms ‘Ticket’?

Reading Time: 2 minutes PC Tony Lloyd has had his day in Court. He has been tried by 12 good men and true and found Not Guilty of Murder. He was faced with the totally unenviable decision, pull the trigger or not?  He chose to pull the trigger and the rest, as they say, is history.  Would you?  Would

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