Mainly a blog site about Policing…….Mainly.
Reading 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…
Reading Time: 2 minutes There has been discussion recently (again) about Police staffing levels, in the face of an increase in UK population, an increase in demand and the…
Reading Time: 4 minutes To join or not to join? To leave or not to leave? Those are the questions. It may come as no surprise to you to…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Apologies for the delay, but I appear to have survived moving this blog site to another host, so off we go. Just over a month…
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been hard to tell which one of two recent thoughts about Policing has vexed me the most, so my solution was two short pieces…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Boris Johnson’s Vanity Project, otherwise known as the Police Uplift Programme comes to an end at the end of this week. Chances are, not long…
Reading Time: 2 minutes I would like to begin by wishing my reader a Happy New Year and to hope that 2023 will be a somewhat better year than…
Reading Time: 4 minutes I have decided to ignore the release of the latest ‘official’ Crime Stats for England and Wales. The BBC have already done a wonderful job…
Reading Time: 4 minutes My cynicism about the Police Uplift Programme should be well known by now, but my faith has now been stretched to the absolute limit. The…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yet again I find myself having to start a post with an admission that I expected to be writing something slightly different. The first set…