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Lies Damn Lies and the Home Office

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 […]

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Does The Met Have A Recruitment/Retention Problem?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Does the Met have a Recruitment/Retention problem? I didn’t really think so until very recenttly.  The savagery of Theresa May’s cuts caught up with them eventually, but apart from that I didn’t really think that they had a specific problem. However, a serving officer contacted me recently, to inform me that, for the first time

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We Have Been Royally Had Over

Reading Time: 3 minutes Nothing to do with the Royal Family, but we have been royally had over by recent versions of what the Conservatives like to call a government. We all know by now the extent of the damage caused to Policing the Tories since 2010, so I’m not going to waste your time or mine 0 0

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The Shrinking Metropolitan Police

Reading Time: 4 minutes Whilst giving evidence to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee recently, the Commissioner, Sir Mark Rowley, made reference to the shrinking Metropolitan Police Service (my description, not his). He claimed that the Met was losing more officers than it recruited. Sir Mark revealed that an uneven balance between attrition and recruitment means the force

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Retention of Police Officers in 2023

Reading Time: < 1 minute I’m not even going to attempt to precis this piece of work, it wouldn’t be right, fair or straightforward. Therefore I give you the public link to Over and out: the damaged and conflicting identities of officers voluntarily resigning from the police service It is authored by Dr Sarah Chapman and Jemma Tyson from the

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Police Uplift Programme The Final Chapter

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 ago, at the end of March, the Police Uplift Programme reached its end.  Its intention was to add 20,000 extra officers to the world of Policing in England and Wales. 

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To Crust Or Not To Crust?

Reading Time: 3 minutes Those of you who know me will know by now that I can be a bit ‘crusty’ at times.  I don’t often suffer fools gladly and whilst reluctantly acceptant of change, I’m definitely NOT a fan of ‘Change for Change’s Sake’, which we seem to witness far too often in the world of Policing, which

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Degree Or No Degree That Is The Question

Reading Time: 2 minutes Some will call me a cynic, and some may well be right. As soon as Boris announced his intention of swelling Police numbers by 20,000 I immediately formed the opinion that the training infrastructure would struggle to cope with a short-notice influx of a lot more than 20,000 officers, allowing for wastage, all chasing an

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