Mainly a blog site about Policing…….Mainly.
MPS
End Of Year State Of The Metropolitan Police
Read Whole PostReading Time: 3 minutes This week saw the release of the March 2024 Workforce levels. I can finally see what the end of year state of the Metropolitan Police…
The Met Still Having Problems
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes In the second of the brief updates on previous posts this one provides an update on Met Manpower, and Met Manpower Part 2. Once again,…
Met Manpower
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes I make absolutely no apology for the title Met Manpower, as I use man in the ‘mankind’ context and nothing to do with gender at…
Against The Odds
Read Whole PostReading Time: 3 minutes As a rule I try not to promote the BBC, I personally find them to be less than independent, and frequently appear to be more…
Thousands of Met Police Officers Have Been Told Not To Use Sex Workers
Read Whole PostReading 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…
The Rowley 1000
Read Whole PostReading Time: 2 minutes This post is as much for me as anybody else, and I hope it will be a short one. I got myself in a right…
Those Pesky Drugs Stops
Read Whole PostReading 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…
How Safe Are We Really?
Read Whole PostReading Time: 4 minutes I often think “How Safe Are We Really?” I had hoped to write this a week or two ago, when it was slightly more at…
Stop And Search, The Work Of The Devil, Right?
Read Whole PostReading 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…
Bloody Civvies
Read Whole PostReading 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.…
