Mainly a blog site about the rights and wrongs of Policing. Mainly.
Apologies tor the slight delay in getting Part III written, once I had got all the data in something else happened elsewhere that demanded my attention. Now I have a window. It was my original intention to look at Mid …
The Changing Shape of the Police Service- Part III, Mid Service Crisis? Read more »
Just a short one for this Bank Holiday weekend, on one of my favourite topics (to write about) the Police Uplift Programme. This week saw the release of their latest quarterly updates, up to 31st March 2022. This shows that …
Police Uplift Programme – I Just Can’t Take It Seriously Read more »
Before we start I would like to point out that this most definitely NOT a pop at individual officers who have entered under the Police Now flag. I don’t know any personally, I don’t know enough about the individual officers …
Police Now – Do We Still Need Them? – Did We Ever? Read more »
Much has been made, over a number of years, about a perceived lack of diversity within the Police Forces of England and Wales (nobody seems to worry too much about Police Scotland and PSNI). If my memory serves me well, …
There has been much debate on Social Media about the success of the Police Uplift Programme, the government scheme to recruit 20,000 extra (now changed to new) Police Officers. I tried writing to the 43 Forces asking how many recruits …
Police Uplift Programme – The Definitive Update 🙄🙄 Read more »
18 months ago, spurred on by an article by Ian Wiggett that highlighted record numbers of Voluntary Resignations, I wrote The Ever-Thinning Blue Line. Prior to that, no less an organisation than the Daily Mail, had published an article predicting …
The Changing Shape of The Police Service – Part II Read more »
I am grateful (just for once) to the National Police Chiefs Council for publishing some data on the Police Uplift Programme. After some hotly debated data published by somebody else they have finally acquiesced and published, what they claim, are …
Much has been said about numbers in Policing, and I have already written more than enough on the subject. For the purposes of this post, and Part II when I get the data I need, I shan’t reference numbers directly …
The Changing Shape of The Police Service, Part I Read more »
The problems in Policing go back a very long way. After the tragic murder of Stephen Lawrence the Lord Macpherson labelled the Met Institutionally Racist. That was in 1999. An awful lot of people interpreted that as meaning that every …
Canteen Culture, This Culture, That Culture. Why Policing Is Doomed Read more »
Any of you who have been reading my posts for a while will know that I’ve taken more than a passing interest in Police Recruitment. I recently sent FOI requests to all of the Police Forces asking what the wastage …