Reading Time: 4 minutes CRITICAL MASS 1. (Nuclear Physics) the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a nuclear chain reaction 2. the minimum amount of money or number of people required to start or sustain an operation, business, process, etc: Well, we must just about be approaching Critical Mass in UK PLC any time now. I make […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As promised, Normal Service has been resumed. I went to sleep last night trying, and failing, to read the report issued by the Public Accounts Committee. When I woke up this morning it was all over the news. Even the BBC was having a dig, they’ve improved just a little since the government threw the
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Reading Time: 4 minutes I was just about to doze off last night when my interest was grabbed by a tweet from @imthenicenurse Is there no end to Tory madness? “Reforming the powers of #police staff and volunteers” https://t.co/UvMkGMmlVK@Alanw47 — ImTheNiceNurse (@imthenicenurse) September 9, 2015 The Tory madness in question being Theresa May’s latest brilliant bit of thinking
Reading Time: < 1 minute I saw a very welcome headline yesterday; Police force threatens to sue Theresa May over funding plans “What a fantastic idea” I thought. The article, if true, gives an intriguing insight into the inequality of Cuts and Funding by Central Government. The Met seems set to suffer an unbelievable level of cuts (up to 43%)
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a devout cynic I shuddered mightily when the announcement, followed by the reality, that we were going to (and have done) lose 17,500 Police Officers under Dave Camoron’s ‘Reforms’. That was bad enough and I don’t need to go over old ground, we have all seen the reality, the constant ‘Crying Wolf’, Cuts do
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I am indebted to Inspector Gadget (again) and @obbsie for stimulating my grey cells once more. Mr Winsor’s (sorry, Sir Tom’s)infamous ‘blue collar’ comments have possibly been forgotten by now, but Gadget is quite right, we must NEVER forget them. Sir Tom has NEVER apologised for that comment, NEVER justified that comment and NEVER withdrawn that
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Well Twatter was awash with condemnation yesterday, and I have to say I’m hardly surprised. It’s been a while since I saw such a ridiculous management decision, at least a week. The Twattersphere was rent asunder by this headline in the Birmingham Mail We hope you enjoy the show! Outrage as events company offers ticket
Reading Time: 2 minutes And The Public Are The Police. Except that is in danger of ceasing to be true. The Peelian Principle that has been enshrined in Policing since 1829 is in danger of being cast aside by our illustrious Home Secretary. It has long been mooted that the scale of cuts being recklessly imposed upon Policing by
Reading Time: 6 minutes In 2010 the Home Secretary, Theresa May, presented a paper to Parliament entitled Policing In The 21st Century, Reconnecting Police And The People. I don’t normally waste my time reading such utter rubbish, but a few of the paragraphs caught my eye, and some even made me laugh. The first was; The police are charged
Reading Time: 3 minutes just when you thought you were buckling up for a bumpy ride, the whole thing went off the rails. During the lifetime of the last, inept, coalition government we saw cutbacks to Policing (amongst other Public Services I hasten to add) on a totally unprecedented and eye-watering scale. At the last count we have lost
