Reading Time: 2 minutes Anybody who wants to join the Met apparently. As from 20th July 2015 anyone considering joining the Met as a Constabule needs to be able to speak one or more of the following languages in addition to Eengleesh; • Yoruba (Nigeria) • Hebrew • Arabic • Hindi • Punjabi • Italian • German • Turkish […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Crisis? What Crisis? This morning’s blog post provoked a reaction. A reaction I wasn’t exactly expecting, and a reaction that isn’t in any way good news. I have to confess, I take a share of the blame myself here, we do tend to concentrate on the Front Line, the ever-shrinking Police Services around the country,
Reading Time: 2 minutes As a former Met officer I never in my wildest dreams thought I would see the day when the Met was anything less than the finest Force in the world. However the last week has made me question that. We have long had the unresolved problems within DPS which I and others have commented on
Reading Time: 6 minutes While I sit and ponder my future I found myself thinking about a couple of ‘Improvements’ that Theresa May has made to Policing. My experience and knowledge is really linked to the Met, so if I say something which does not extend to your Force please forgive me, unlike Ms Khan, any unfair generalisations are
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Reading Time: 2 minutes With apologies to the song of a similar name. There can’t be a single person in the land that has not heard the monumental news that the Met will be investigated over (I think) 14 allegations relating to the alleged covering up of Child Abuse enquiries in the 70s. In particular, much has been made
Reading Time: 3 minutes No, the two aren’t necessarily connected, just two items of insanity floating around Twitter last night. Firstly the College of Policing (CoP) has announced a national scrutiny into undercover policing; http://www.college.police.uk/News/College-news/Pages/National-undercover-scrutiny-.aspx Included in the panel are the Police Action Centre aka Sophie Khan and PCC Sue Mountstevens. NEWS: We have an external scrutiny panel for
Reading Time: 3 minutes #CutsHaveConsequences is a hashtag that’s been used a lot in the past few weeks, and rightly so. It got me to thinking. Every single Force in the land has suffered cuts since 2010, all in the name of Austerity. Their respective PCC and Chief a Constable have formed plans to cope with the savagely slashed
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s only Tuesday, and my quill is already getting blunt. Yesterday I discussed the (yet again) vindictive reports coming out of HMIC and IPCC, you can find that here if you haven’t already read it. Today I’m occupied by the proposed cuts looming for the Met. I know that the Met is not the only
Reading Time: 2 minutes What on earth is going on in the rarified atmosphere occupied by the ACPO types? They’re beginning to sing from the same hymn book as us lesser mortals (or are they?) The last few days has seen headlines such as Lincolnshire Police chief says force will go out of business in letter to the Home
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well, that’s giving in a taking sort of way really. I must thank @TanyaSmith67 for bringing this matter to my attention, it had completely passed me by. I’ll stop writing about it just as soon as Boris and co let me, honest I will. Not content with selling off huge chunks of the Met’ s
