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: 4 minutes To join or not to join? To leave or not to leave? Those are the questions. It may come as no surprise to you to hear that I’m not really a fan of the Police Uplift Programme, I have written more than enough about it already, however, today I am tempted just a little bit
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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Reading Time: 2 minutes I wrote a short piece on the Book of Faeces this morning, that was in a Closed Group, so most of you won’t have have seen it. RIP Old Friend TJF, a personal opinion of how I see the future of the Metropolitan Police Service Not Force. It’s more than 50 years since I joined
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
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
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
