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How Did We Come To This?

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

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The Changing Shape of The Police Service Part II

Reading Time: 4 minutes 18 months ago, spurred on by an article by Ian Wiggett that highlighted record numbers of Voluntary Resignations, I wrote The Ever-Thinning Blue Line, and now I’m writing The Changing Shape of The Police Service Part II Prior to that, no less an organisation than the Daily Mail, had published an article predicting that by

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Policing Experience – Is There Another Crisis Waiting To Happen?

Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve heard plenty about #CrisisInPolicing and I’m not going to convince you that there isn’t one. I have said before that there is, caused directly and personally by David Camoron and Theresa May. They were both arrogant and refused to listen to those who knew what they were talking about. Instead they preferred to accuse

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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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Scandalous Reduction in Police Officer Numbers

Reading Time: < 1 minute I am thankful to my friend @ConstableChaos for bringing this to my attention Staffordshire Police have seen a reduction in officers from 2,400 to 1,600 in recent years. Now @StaffsPolFed Chairman Keith Jervis believes that performance related pay could make things worse. Read the full article now: https://t.co/XzySNZlSwC #ProtectTheProtectors pic.twitter.com/mIsdKg0i10 — Staffs Police Federation (@StaffsPolFed)

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Who Co-Ordinates The Co-Ordinators?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Mustn’t swear, honestly, but yesterday provided me with a  true WTF moment. Following the recent visit of that nice Mr Trump to the UK, it became obvious via news and Social Media, plus personal observations on the M40, that many Police Officers had been deployed on Mutual Aid to assist with the Policing and Security

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The State of Policing 2018

Reading Time: 2 minutes Fortuitously there has just been a release of Police Manpower (sorry, I still call it that, no offence intended) and the latest Crime Data for England and Wales. Much has been made of these latest figures both in the Press and on Social Media.  This Crime has gone up by this percentage and all that

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We Were NOT Crying Wolf Prime Minister

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m sure you can all remember back in 2015 when the then Home Secretary told the Police Federation to “stop crying wolf”. Well, We Were NOT Crying Wolf Prime Minister She said nearly every year the Federation warned that the public was at risk or that the force would be destroyed but it had not

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