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Is It Time To Arm The British Police?

Reading Time: 3 minutes The question is really aimed at my former colleagues but please feel free to join in whoever you are. The world has changed after Paris 2015. First Charlie Ebdo and the accompanying attacks at the beginning of the year. Then, tragically, Friday the 13th. The events unfolding within the Bataclan Theatre must have been horrific […]

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The Front Line Has Been Protected (Trust Me)

Reading Time: < 1 minute Just another quickie from me today, as the Bishop said to the Actress. In Mar 2010 there were 223 Chief Officers in the 43 Forces, in March 2010 there were 201, a reduction of 22, or just under 10%. In the same period Superintendents, Chief Superindents numbered 1,502 in 2010, reduced to 1,157 in 2015,

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I Need Help To Work This Out

Reading Time: 2 minutes Since 2010 we have been enduring a period of Austerity, Reform in many Public Sector Services, in particular the Police Service. In the last 5 years we have seen the loss of more than 17,000 officers from the Police Service of England and Wales. In the next 5 years we are due to witness the

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Surely It’s Now Time For Theresa May To Go

Reading Time: 3 minutes Her time is done, she’s set about the wholesale destruction and discrediting of the British Police. Her and Tom Winsor set in place a plan which is reducing the British Police from being the pride of the world to a mere shadow of its former self. In the name of ‘Reform’ she is changing the

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When Exactly Is This Home Secretary Going To Listen?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Crime Is Down, Reform Is Working. How many times have we heard that? Is Crime down? Not according to figures released a few days ago, massively up when you include Fraud and CyberCrime, and just becasue we have never counted them before does not mean that don’t impact upon our resources. Is Reform working? That

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A Letter To And From The The Tory Chairman 

Reading Time: 4 minutes I know you might find this difficult to believe, but I have a friend, a real person. This friend wrote a letter to the Chairman of the Conservative Party about the budget cuts, particularly with reference to Policing.  Below is that letter, and the reply to it. Make yourself a brew, sit back and enjoy;

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My Crystal Balls Could Use A Little Polishing

Reading Time: 3 minutes Just under 2 years ago I had a go at predicting the future. In What Does Your Future Hold? I predicted that G4$, supported by PCSOs and Specials, would be carrying out routine patrolling, together with fixed posts of low sensitivity, protection of insecure or vulnerable premises, reporting and recording of crimes etc. leaving sworn

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Why Don’t We Just Scrap The Police Altogether?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Not my idea I must point out, but it really is quite amazing the ideas that our academics and Think Tanks can come up with. However, I was settled on my sofa, getting comfy waiting for the game with an odd-shaped ball to begin when the phone rang, it was Bronwen again. My word she’s

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Critical Mass

Reading Time: 4 minutes CRITICAL MASS 1. (Nuclear Physics) the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a nuclear chain reaction 2. the minimum amount of money or number of people required to start or sustain an operation, business, process, etc: Well, we must just about be approaching Critical Mass in UK PLC any time now. I make

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