Reading Time: 2 minutes How many of us can say that Our support for our brave police officers is unwavering? Apparently our Home Office can Seldom before have I read such uncompromising and total bollocks The economy has been significantly impacted by the pandemic but we're committed to supporting the police by: ✅ Recruiting 20,000 police officers✅ Increasing taxpayer […]
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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: 7 minutes It’s a question I’ve been asking myself since 2010 to be honest. My opinions have never been favourable to the Tories, but apart from the constant, ongoing, reduction in officers I’ve never really put many numbers to it. I fear that is about to change, but to be easy you, I hope to achieve most
Reading Time: 3 minutes My thanks to @julieanneda for bringing this article to my attention. Our Home Secretary Sajid Javid has finally got off his arse and done something about the rapidly escalating Knife Crime sweeping the country. He is apparently proposing Knife Crime Prevention Orders. What are the main features of these Orders? The measures will place curbs
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Call me old-fashioned but it is clearly time for Theresa May to go. She has made a complete Horlicks (mustn’t swear apparently) of the Brexit negotiations. Her own party are turning against her in ever-increasing numbers, she has no credibility left in the eyes of many. My own personal opinion is that she is determined
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear reader I am typing this slowly as I know it’s a dry, boring subject that most of us don’t bother with, but unfortunately for you, I do. You may want to make yourself a cup of strong coffee before you read any further. I have been looking at the strength of the various Police
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Armed Forces are at their lowest strength since before the Second World War. Successive Strategic Defence Reviews have seen to that. Only this week we waved goodbye to HMS Illustrious, off to a scrapyard somewhere. Heaven knows when her replacement will be in situ with some fast jets aboard. It’s the cuts you know,
Reading Time: 2 minutes Or is it? I can’t begin to speak for the County Forces, I have absolutely no idea what their rules are or were. However, back in 1972 when I joined the Met I had no say in it, I simply HAD to live within a 25 mile radius of Central London. I can’t remember now
Reading Time: 4 minutes Apologies for the duplication, I had a technical problem with the url after correcting some typos Well, it’s taken 4 years but the Horsemen finally seem to have earnt their corn. The votes have been counted and verified and I can announce that the winner is Theresa May. Results in Wales are not set to
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am grateful (again) to @NathanConstable. I had the read the article about West Yorkshire Police and dutifully spluttered coffee into my All Bran but Nathan tweeted that we should read he comments, which I had failed to do. https://twitter.com/nathanconstable/status/716568858258235392 The gist of the article was about the reduction of Police Officers and PCSOs in
