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Police Apprentice or Barista? Difficult Choice

Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologies to all those who have seen this on Twitter but I’m too incandescent to drop it just yet. My ire was sparked by a discussion on Facebook and a retired ‘old sweat’ DS could not believe that Police Apprentice was now an approved entry route with a commencing salary of £18,000 with no actual […]

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Police Pay Pensions and Conditions – It All Makes Sense Now

Reading Time: 2 minutes But I still don’t agree with it. Correct me if I’m wrong but the first major changes came with Tom Winsor’s ‘Independent’ Reviews. Instead of being able to retire on a full pension after 30 years service ‘Tom’ recommended increasing retirement age to 60 for a full pension. The Pension Scheme itself was changed from

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Government Policing and Contempt

Reading Time: 3 minutes I make no apology for concealing the identity of my contributors, but within 48 hours I received 2 pieces that show just how contemptuous the government are of Policing, and, worse, they are dragging National Police Chiefs Council officers along with them. The first from a friend, an ex-colleague, an ex-pat who wrote thus; XXXX,

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Police League Tables

Reading Time: 3 minutes Not quite the League Tables you might have been expecting though. Since 2010 it should be no surprise to anyone that approx 21,000 Police Officers have been culled from the overall strength of the Police Forces of England and Wales. I shall leave it to others for today to determine how that has affected performance.

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It’s A War Zone Out There

Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s A War Zone Out There Well, it is war really. I make absolutely no apology for starting off with a stark image This is one of the more acceptable images from Camberwell recently where Police and Paramedics encountered a scene of absolute carnage after 4 young men had been stabbed in the street, one

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The Changing Face of the Police Service

Reading Time: 4 minutes We all know it.  The Police Service is changing.  I won’t bore you by repeating the various crises that Policing faces, but what do these changes LOOK LIKE?  I thought I might highlight a few areas that some Academics may not choose to, so I got my crayons out again. Diversity. Over many years, even

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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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Policing In The 21st Century

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ten years ago there were 141,859 Police Officers (all ranks) in the 43 Forces that traditionally make up England and Wales, 108,884 of that total were Constables. By 2010, when David Cameron and Theresa May came to power, there was a total of 143,734 officers in total. 109,669 were Constables. By 31st March 2017 after

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