Reading Time: < 1 minute On 22nd March, a brave Constable was murdered by a cowardly terrorist within the grounds of the Palace of Westminster. His name was Keith Palmer and he died protecting public and politicians alike from said terrorist. On 3rd June 3 terrorists ran amok on London Bridge, and Borough Market. A young nurse ran towards the […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes When Theresa May was Home Secretary she famously said that it was not about the numbers of police but about the quality of the policing. Despite a variety of attempts by government I honestly believe that we still have some of the best Police Officers in the world. I’m not sure how much longer that
Reading Time: 2 minutes There cannot be a single person here who hasn’t heard the allegations surrounding the alleged activitis of Mr Keith Vaz MP allegedly. I make no comment on the subject and content of those allegations as it is not within my personal xperience to know whether they are true or not. HOWEVER The attitude and behaviour
Reading Time: 4 minutes This post is not mine. It has been reproduced from another site with the consent of the author. It raises some very good points, that could really do with some good answers. Enjoy In my opinion this government will go down in history as the government that destroyed the greatest police service in the world.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Way back in 2010 a small little article slipped through, almost un-noticed. Mervyn King, then Governor of the Bank of England felt that George Osborne and David Cameron were “out of their depth” You can read the article here Paraphrasing, he felt that they were presumably too young and lacked experience to be Prime Minister
Reading Time: < 1 minute NOT I have just read Peter Kirkham’s most excellent post, and rather than paraphrase or précis it, I recommend that you read it here. All I can say in response is that the government have not made me feel any safer at all. We’re going to keep both of our new Aircraft Carriers. Oh goody.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Well, that’s not strictly true, but he has been expunged from the record. After Friday’s blog and the shitstorm it invoked about the apparent lack of transparency surronding a certain man and his Indepent Review, I dug a little deeper and went into the Home Office Disclosure Log to make sure the original request hadn’t ‘disappeared’.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Strange things happen. We used to have Police Authorities, even the Met had one eventually. Then some bright spark at a well known Think Tank came up with PCCs. Needless to say, most of the elected PCCs represent one political party or another, the Independents have a particularly hard time of it. My old friends
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are 3 Government Petitions relating to the delightful lady at the moment. The first, and with the most signatures is Theresa May to go on patrol with a police force for a full set of night shifts. (15,477 signatures) If it gets to 100,000 signatures the government will debate it, but when it reached
Reading Time: 2 minutes One Tweet this morning reminded me immediately of everything that is wrong with Public Protection in this country at the moment. Laughable. The box is empty. #CutsHaveConsequences https://t.co/TcBCGQmFxR — Bosco (@Boscorelli55) November 14, 2015 I really don’t want to be scoring cheap points off the back of a real human tragedy like we have
