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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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Some Very Good Questions

Reading Time: 4 minutes This post is not mine. It has been reproduced from another site with the consent of the author. It raises some very good points, that could really do with some good answers. Enjoy In my opinion this government will go down in history as the government that destroyed the greatest police service in the world.

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In Support Of The NARPO Army

Reading Time: 4 minutes There has been a lot of comment on Twitter recently to the effect that ex Police Officers should not stand for election in the forthcoming PCC Eelections in May.  Why not?  Who CAN stand in a hope of being elected?  ALMOST ANYONE. To be able to stand as a candidate at a Police and Crime

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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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Spotlight On Dyfed Powys Police, Life On The Other Side Of Offa’s Dyke

Reading Time: 3 minutes Another Tory Police & Crime Commissioner has come to my attention this week. In the second of my ‘Spotlight’ articles my trusty beam goes over Offa’s Dyke and into Welsh Wales. Firstly we have Mr Salmon’s astonishing claim to be recruiting extra Police Officers. In a move similar to that in North Yorkshire, Mr Salmon

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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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