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Austerity

Reading Time: 4 minutes 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. Under the banner of Austerity they […]

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Is Policing Perfect?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Is Policing Perfect? No. Has Policing ever been perfect? No Will Policing ever be perfect? Probably not, BUT….. The demise of Policing is a reasonably complex problem, far more so than would have us believe. I don’t intend to repeat too much of what I have already said before, but prior to the intervention of

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The Ever-Thinning Blue Line

Reading Time: 5 minutes I recently read some of an interesting piece by Ian Wiggett regarding the shrinking Police Service of England and Wales. (The Ever-Thinning Blue Line).  I suppose I should declare that I know Ian Wiggett, we served at the same station in a previous life. Unfortunately I could not access the entire article as it lives

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The Answer To Everything Is NOT 42

Reading Time: 3 minutes Like many others of a certain age I grew up believing that the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42. It took Supercomputer Deep Thought 7½ million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42.   It took me less than 30 years to

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Knife Crime vs Stop And Search (Plus a Few Ideas)

Reading Time: 7 minutes You’ll be pleased to know that I’m not going to regurgitate much of what I have previously written about Stop/Search or Knife Crime. Any or all of that is available in previous posts. This really concerns the views of the Twitterati on the subject. I posted a Poll on Twitter seeking people’s views on Stop/Search

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No Direct Link Between Certain Crimes & Police Numbers

Reading Time: 4 minutes “I have to tell you that this kind of scaremongering does nobody any good” “This crying wolf has to stop.” “No direct correlation between certain crimes and police numbers” All of these quotes come from Theresa May. Since her disastrous time at the Home Office she has clearly no intention of changing her views. For

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The Crucifixion Cycle (As Amended)

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Crucifixion Cycle Stage 1 Slash Resources Government slashes the resources of the public body in question.  Be it NHS, Armed Forces, Police, Education, Coastguard, Fire Service, Probation, Barristers, Junior Doctors……the list just goes on and on.  They have all had their resources slashed to the bone (and possibly deeper) by this failing government in

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The Government Has Most Definitely Forgotten

Reading Time: < 1 minute Not being subject to the rules of Purdah, I can have a moan. The term ‘purdah’ is in use across central and local government to describe the period of time immediately before elections or referendums when specific restrictions on the activity of civil servants are in place. The terms ‘pre-election period’ and ‘period of sensitivity’

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I Have Seen The Future – TJF, Very F

Reading Time: 3 minutes TJF, that was one of the very first things I was told when I left the cocoon that was Hendon Training School and appeared at my very first nick. I suspect that it has been common parlance for generations. Looking at various Tweets and Facebook posts over the past week.  Thinking about the tragic events

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The Chickens Have Come Home To Roost

Reading Time: 2 minutes Following on from this week’s tragic events, the pressures on the Metropolitan Police have possibly never been greater since WWII.  I don’t mean that to sound dramatic, but I happen to believe that it’s true. Quite rightly, the Met has increased Policing levels in London in order to reassure residents and visitors alike, and in

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