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The 43 Forces Of England And Wales Are Recruiting

Reading Time: 2 minutes Volunteers. According to Saturday’s Grauniad Her Regal Highness Theresa May has decided that volunteers can be given what she calls ‘Police Powers’ and used to investigate ‘Sex Crimes’ and ‘Terror Offences’.  Since the staggering number of frontline officers that have left the Police Service since the beginning of ‘Reform’ the government are refusing to set […]

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What The Hell Is Happening To Our Officers?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Police Officers have been assaulted since forever.  In the good old, bad old days it was not unusual to have a tussle with some ne’er do well in the course of arresting him, and sometimes it was even a her.  Times change, Society changes and assaults on our officers seemed to become far more serious

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Politics And Policing, Ne’er The Twain…….

Reading Time: 3 minutes Really?  Once upon a time maybe, but this government has changed all that forever. In recent months the landscape has been turned on its head.  Almost as soon as the date for the PCC elections was made public David Cameron’s Cabinet Office announced that there would be no funding for a free mailshot for the

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It’s All The Police’s Fault (No It Isn’t)

Reading Time: < 1 minute I am grateful (again) to @NathanConstable. I had the read the article about West Yorkshire Police and dutifully spluttered coffee into my All Bran but Nathan tweeted that we should read he comments, which I had failed to do.  https://twitter.com/nathanconstable/status/716568858258235392 The gist of the article was about the reduction of Police Officers and PCSOs in

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Is This What An Extra £30 Million Gets You?

Reading Time: 2 minutes The government gave the IPCC an EXTRA £30 million in their budget so that they could do more good works. Policing minister Mike Penning said there would be a cash reduction of £299m in the overall 2015-16 police funding budget, compared with 2014-15. But the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) will get a £30m funding

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Hello Darkness My Old Friend

Reading Time: < 1 minute Nope, nothing to do with Messrs Simon and Garfunkel, but a return to the Dark Ages brought about solely by the media, quelle surprise. The very same media that love to bleat about Police Forces and Police Officers not doing their jobs are excelling at preventing them from doing so. In league with Action on

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The Countdown To 5th May Has Begun

Reading Time: 2 minutes Just 2 months to go until possibly one of the most important elections in recent years.The elections for Police and Crime Commissioner.  Local Authority and Mayoral elections (where applicable) are being held on the same date and hopefully this will improve the turnout. Unlike in 2012 , when the last PCC elections were held, Police

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HMIC Are Pissing Me Right Off

Reading Time: 2 minutes Is it just me? I have spent a lot of time this morning trying to work out if HMIC are biased or simply naive. In their latest contender for the Booker Prize they have ‘found’ that several Police Forces need to improve. Three police forces in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire have failed to adequately investigate crime

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I Seem To Be Errrrm……..Confused

Reading Time: 3 minutes It only seems like a moment ago that the Police were being criticised for the manner in which they investigated and recorded crimes and how they treated or regarded the victims of those crimes. There are any manner of ‘anti’ articles in the press, disclosures by officers, dodgy recording practices, unrealistic targets.  The whole thing

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