Reading Time: 2 minutes In 1993 a young lad, Stephen Lawrence, was tragically murdered by a gang of racists. That much we know and we have known it for a long time. It seems clear to most that the investigation into that murder was flawed and almost certainly derailed by the corrupt actions of one or two officers. However, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Who’s that you might ask? https://twitter.com/alanw47/status/680369678691209216 On Christmas Eve I came upon the news that the Met Police Catering Service was being outsourced, in other words, privatised. Boris has already sold off Buckingham Gate, the main ‘feeding centre’ in Central London, and canteens-a-plenty are closed or will be closed. Let’s be honest, in the main,
Reading Time: 2 minutes Good morning, I was going to leave you all alone this morning, but when I went to bed last night there the first few tweets surfacing about a Public Order situation in Lambeth, South London. Chaos on the Albert Embankment. Nine police cars and two vans at last count. Officers blocking off Black Prince Road
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: 2 minutes Anybody who wants to join the Met apparently. As from 20th July 2015 anyone considering joining the Met as a Constabule needs to be able to speak one or more of the following languages in addition to Eengleesh; • Yoruba (Nigeria) • Hebrew • Arabic • Hindi • Punjabi • Italian • German • Turkish
Reading Time: 3 minutes So now Boris knows what it’s like to be a Police Officer without having to go through the training. Buy yourself a couple of Water Cannon cheap on eBay or wherever and attract the hostile attention of a lady who clearly doesn’t want to risk getting her shoes splashed. Last year, as you will remember,
Reading Time: 2 minutes In fact they probably think they have answered me, albeit late as usual. It was just over a month ago, I was getting absolutely pee’d off listening to all the garbage about the ethnic makeup of the Police Service. As the largest Force in England and Wales I picked on the Met and asked them
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Reading Time: 2 minutes PC Tony Lloyd has had his day in Court. He has been tried by 12 good men and true and found Not Guilty of Murder. He was faced with the totally unenviable decision, pull the trigger or not? He chose to pull the trigger and the rest, as they say, is history. Would you? Would
Reading Time: < 1 minute Crisis? What Crisis? This morning’s blog post provoked a reaction. A reaction I wasn’t exactly expecting, and a reaction that isn’t in any way good news. I have to confess, I take a share of the blame myself here, we do tend to concentrate on the Front Line, the ever-shrinking Police Services around the country,
