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Thousands of Met Police Officers Have Been Told Not To Use Sex Workers

Reading Time: 2 minutes Thousands of Met Police Officers have been told not to use Sex Workers. It has been reported in The Mail and The Sun that instructions have been issued forbidding the use of sex workers by the Met’s Police Officers.  In the spirit of Equality I presume this includes female officers as well. This instruction, whilst

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Those Pesky Drugs Stops

Reading Time: 2 minutes Before I begin, I need to make it clear that anything you read here only applies to those pesky drugs stops in the Metropolitan Police District, the rest of you can read on, or go back to sleep, up to you. Following on from my previous post about the ‘disproportionate’ Stop/Searches in London, there was

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Stop And Search, The Work Of The Devil, Right?

Reading Time: 3 minutes I wasn’t intending to write anything at all this morning, but this headline from the Grauniad changed my mind. Met police criticised for multiple errors in stop and search practice Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. The IOPC made 11 recommendations for the Met, Britain’s biggest force, for reform of its policies. “There is

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Bloody Civvies

Reading Time: 2 minutes Behind every good cop is a bloody civvie.  The oft-forgotten backbone of the Police Service is the Police Staff, affectionately known as the bloody civvies. Many people don’t realise it but the relationship between officer and civvie can be a very intense one sometimes. At the coal face they frequently work closely together and almost

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Where Has The Police Force Gone?

Reading Time: 4 minutes When I joined the Met in 72 it was a very different animal to what it has become today.  Some of the changes have been an improvement, many, in my opinion, have not. The first thing I noticed was that the instructors were SCARY, especially that Drill Sergeant, Sid Butcher, who seemed to think that

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Taser Usage in London – The Numbers

Reading Time: < 1 minute A month or so ago there was heated discussion on Twatter and Farcebook about Taser Usage in London vs Ethnicity and there were differing opinions proffered. I asked the Met two simple questions; For the previous rolling 12 month period How many times have Tasers been drawn, but specifically NOT used? On those occasions when

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Put Up Or Shut Up (Sir)

Reading Time: 4 minutes I am indebted to one of our number for bringing the following article to my attention Met police ‘routinely discriminate against black people,’ Scotland Yard diversity chief warns Chief Superintendent Victor Olisa has openly claimed that the Metropolitan Police routinely discriminates against ‘black people’. Police are routinely discriminating against black people in stop and search

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