More Smoke And Mirrors
Knife Crime. Who is to blame? Certainly anyone carrying or wielding a knife without a reasonable excuse or lawful authority is to blame. Government silliness might make you think that Teachers or the NHS...
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Scandalous Reduction in Police Officer Numbers
I am thankful to my friend @ConstableChaos for bringing this to my attention Staffordshire Police have seen a reduction in officers from 2,400 to 1,600 in recent years. Now @StaffsPolFed Chairman Keith Jervis believes...
Your Country Needs You (Like Never Before)
There surely cannot be a person over the age of 14 or so who is still unaware of the seemingly uncontrollable epidemic of stabbings and Knife Crime sweeping the country. Not one person surely?...
Police Pay, Pensions and Conditions – It All Makes Sense Now
But I still don’t agree with it. Correct me if I’m wrong but the first major changes came with Tom Winsor’s ‘Independent’ Reviews. Instead of being able to retire on a full pension after...
Police League Tables
Not quite the League Tables you might have been expecting though. Since 2010 it should be no surprise to anyone that approx 21,000 Police Officers have been culled from the overall strength of the...
Taxi For Mrs May
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...
Who Co-Ordinates The Co-Ordinators?
Mustn’t swear, honestly, but yesterday provided me with a true WTF moment. Following the recent visit of that nice Mr Trump to the UK, it became obvious via news and Social Media, plus personal...
The State of Policing 2018
Fortuitously there has just been a release of Police Manpower (sorry, I still call it that, no offence intended) and the latest Crime Data for England and Wales. Much has been made of these...
How Safe Are Our Streets Exactly?
As you are all aware, I am not an Academic, and I do not possess a degree in anything. However, spurred on by this warm weather and an increasing foreboding of doom, I dusted...
We Were NOT Crying Wolf Prime Minister
I’m sure you can all remember back in 2015 when the then Home Secretary told the Police Federation to “stop crying wolf”. She said nearly every year the Federation warned that the public was...
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