Reading Time: 4 minutes Today there has been much discussion, debate and many views and questions following the publication of The Angiolini Report. Lady Elish Angiolini has been conducting an enquiry following the shocking events surrounding former PC Wayne Couzens and others. I don’t need to repeat here exactly what he did, we all know, and I’m certainly not going […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Somebody, or several somebodies, will disagree with me on this, and that is fine, but maybe you could please tell me I’m dreaming, or maybe it’s a nightmare. Today I heard some news about Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth. I don’t know very much about her and she may well be the nicest person on
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was having a conversation this morning, (Monday) on Twatter, with somebody who appears to be a serving officer. I have no intention of identifying this person, their identity is not important, but how did we come to this? was the topic of discussion. Specifically I was bemoaning the fact that initial investigations at burglaries
Reading Time: 2 minutes Those of you who follow this blog regularly will no doubt have noticed something a little unexpected about it. The College of Policing are pushing the ‘new’, ‘better’ Entry Routes above the more traditional Initial Police Learning and Development Programme (IPLDP). Lancashire PCC Andrew Snowden, in an interview with Police Oracle, has firmly criticised the
Reading Time: 3 minutes A short while ago I wrote a post about how I couldn’t take the Police Uplift Programme seriously. As a result of not being able to take it seriously I sent an FOIA request to the National Police Chiefs Council. You may recall that the National Police Chiefs Council has previously released a set of
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Police Uplift Programme & Graduate/Apprenticeship Entry – Do They Mix? Much has been heard from the Home Office and the Conservative Party in General about the Police Uplift Programme. Those of you who have read me regularly will know by now what I think of it, if you haven’t heard you can find my musings
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Much has been said about the Policing Educational Qualification Framework (PEQF) and the so called Graduate Entry Programme. I have been one of many to mistakenly use this title, but it is a misnomer, indeed, it has even been called ‘Nonsense’. You definitely do NOT need to have a degree before you can apply to
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Reading Time: 3 minutes The modern day Police Service was the innovation of Sir Robert Peel, as we all well know. Broadly speaking there are 9 Peelian Principles on which Policing in the UK is based, and owes its heritage to. They are:- Sir Robert, God bless him, summed his new Police Force up in this way The police
Reading Time: 3 minutes There was an article in The Thunderer, and others, yesterday announcing that recruitment into the Police Service will be opened up to 17 year olds. 17 Year Old Recruits; Is This What Policing Needs? This seems to have quite literally polarised the world of Social Media. Personally I’m opposed to it. The main reason that
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Reading Time: 5 minutes This week has seen the publication of an assessment of the College of Policing’s Direct Entry Scheme for Superintendents and Inspectors
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