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Reading Time: 2 minutes Just a short one today, winding down, less than 3 months till I finally shut up and leave you all in peace. With the 2024…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…