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We Have Been Royally Had Over

Reading Time: 3 minutes Nothing to do with the Royal Family, but we have been royally had over by recent versions of what the Conservatives like to call a government. We all know by now the extent of the damage caused to Policing the Tories since 2010, so I’m not going to waste your time or mine 0 0

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I Hate You Butler

Reading Time: 7 minutes I Hate You Butler, or more accurately, we hate you Police, seems to be the Battle Cry of any modern day Conservative government. I’m happy to be corrected, but governments and Home Secretaries in particular, seemed to be relatively supportive in the past, regardless of which party they belonged to.  I remember Labour’s Merlynn Rees

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The Casey Review

Reading Time: 3 minutes Before I begin I want to make a few things crystal clear, especially as many of the Twitterati seem to enjoy portraying me in completely the wrong way, or they think they know my opinions, but they do not, just mischief makers. Firstly, I do not, and never have, think that the Metropolitan Police is

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Policing Is Not A Chumocracy

Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologies for yet one more post this week, but a simple post on Twitter this morning has potentially revealed something unsavoury and unwelcome. It started with this, a heartfelt post from a retired Met Detective Inspector. I endorsed it without hesitation as I could instantly relate to it. Even before I retired (almost 20 years

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The Changing Shape of the Police Service Part III Mid Service Crisis?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologies tor the slight delay in getting Part III written, once I had got all the data in something else happened elsewhere that demanded my attention. Now I have a window, so I give you The Changing Shape of the Police Service Part III Mid Service Crisis? It was my original intention to look at

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Canteen Culture This Culture That Culture – Why Policing Is Doomed

Reading Time: 6 minutes Canteen Culture This Culture That Culture – Why Policing Is Doomed, is it doomed?  Is there an agenda out there to aid its demise? The problems in Policing go back a very long way. Institutional Racism After the tragic murder of Stephen Lawrence the Lord Macpherson labelled the Met Institutionally Racist. That was in 1999.

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We Don’t Need A New Commissioner

Reading Time: 6 minutes Oh, I’m going to get so much stick for this post, but it’s not in my nature to say nothing. I simply think that we don’t need a new Commissioner. Before I begin I ought to point out that I’m no fan of Dame Cressida, but that doesn’t stop me thinking that she’s being unfairly

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What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Sorry, What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us? is a bit misleading, it should really be entitled What Have The Tories Ever Done For Us? I stumbled upon a report issued by the Office for National Statistics back in September that seems to have slipped under the radar and avoided comment. It was entitled

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Musings Of An Angry Dinosaur

Reading Time: 4 minutes This Angry Dinosaur has been Musing.  I don’t know about anybody else but I am reaching the point of no return with our current brand of politicians. It doesn’t seem to matter very much which party they represent , they’re all as bad as each other. In recent months we have seen, what appears to

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17 Year Old Recruits; Is This What Policing Needs?

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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