Reading Time: 2 minutes In August year I wrote a post relating to my submission of an an FOIA request to the Metropolitan Police concerning Murders and Ethnicity in London. How many murders had there been? How many had involved Knives etc? and how many were committed by black males on black males. The response I received was basically […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes One interesting response to my previous post was that I was contacted by a couple of former Met officers informing me that they really “don’t give a shit”. I wasn’t offended, but I was saddened that anybody who devoted the majority, or all, of their working lives to the Met no longer gives a shit.
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 all. I’m of an age where I get fed up with being bullied and humiliated into not using perfectly acceptable, common-usage terms. If offended please stop reading now. Met Manpower
Reading Time: 2 minutes Apologies to Mr Dylan. Those of you who read my posts regularly will note that this one is a tad different to the norm. Unless it relates to wrong-doing or corruption etc I almost always support the Police. On this occasion I don’t feel that I can, but many of you might disagree with me,
Reading Time: 4 minutes Today there has been much discussion, debate and many views and questions following the publication of The Angiolini Report. Lady Elish Angiolini has been conducting an enquiry following the shocking events surrounding former PC Wayne Couzens and others. I don’t need to repeat here exactly what he did, we all know, and I’m certainly not going
Reading Time: 5 minutes Events from the last week or so have left me wondering “Why do I bother?” In no particular order, the sort of things that have been vexing me are; The extraordinary outcome of an investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct, but that is far from being an isolated incident. In the past few
Reading Time: 3 minutes The main reason I’m writing this is simply because it’s too long for an X Was Twitter. The other reason is to share my views on how & why TJF. I have spent most of this morning on the phone trying to source a new TV because I was stupid enough to watch the latest
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week saw the publication of the Independent Office for Police Conduct Annual Report. Fear not, I’m not going to subject you to a precis of all 152 pages, just some of them. I made it all the way to Page 6 before I took exception to anything substantial. Our mission, vision and values
Reading Time: 2 minutes Hopefully just a short one today. It seems we’re due a General Election this year, and I couldn’t let that creep up on me without posting a few thoughts about the performance of our woeful government. Some of you may agree with me, some almost certainly won’t, and with the greatest of respect, I don’t
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 equivalent of an estimated 6,000 of the 21,000 found under the Police Uplift Programme being abstracted from Front Line Policing to fulfil roles usually performed by Police Staff. Gavin Stephenson
