Reading Time: 3 minutes With apologies to Bernard Rix for (almost) nicking his blog title, he’s obviously far more polite than I am. In the last week two odd things have happened, or at least they seem odd to my warped way of thinking. James Patrick abandoned his Employment Tribunal. That in itself isn’t odd, but the circumstances surrounding […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes I was going to take a day off today, but events overtook me. What could you do with £68,000? You could employ 3 Police Recruits (or Student Constables, whatever they’re called today) for a year. You could buy/lease a few nice shiny cars to compliment the fleet. You could certainly fund a new Reward Specialist.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Now, there’s a headline to grab your attention. I have never denied that there is corruption present within the Met, I know there is. I have, however, frequently disputed the scale of that corruption. Personally I do not think it’s as endemic as the Media would have you believe. So, here’s a suggestion for you
Reading Time: 4 minutes Back in April I wrote a blog post called If I Were Commissioner. A little tongue-in-cheek maybe, but basically serious. Not that I am ever going to challenge Sir Bernard Hogan-Who for the ‘top ‘job’ but I do like to keep abreast of what’s happening. In the case of the Met, 2 months later, I
Reading Time: 2 minutes I sat down this morning to watch the video of the Greater London Policing and Crime Committee meeting from 13th May and to read the transcript of same meeting. I very soon thought I was watching an episode of The Muppet Show. There was somebody there impersonating the Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolis. He couldn’t
Reading Time: 3 minutes What is it that’s so bleeding obvious? That the Met has lost its way. Never before have I known it to flounder and flap around like a fish out of water as they are at the moment under their current leadership, Sir Bernard Hogan-Who and his team of muppets. Even in the disappointing times under
Reading Time: 2 minutes At the very least all Constables. You will doubtless be aware that Constable James Patrick of the Metropolitan Police Service is less than one week away from his resignation date, having ‘blown the whistle’ on the way Crime Figures have been manipulated, certainly within the Met. He has been hounded out of a job he
Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in the beginning of February I asked the Met for the cost of the James Patrick Disciplinary Enquiry. Their reply, you may remember, was Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS) investigations are not routinely costed by the MPS. The investigation into PC James Patrick has accordingly, not been attributed a cost. Furthermore, should a member
Reading Time: 3 minutes As many of you will know Friday saw a small campaign launched, designed to raise the profile of James Patrick’s concerns about his treatment by the Met. Within a very short space of time I managed to rustle up 50+ retired or former Met Police officers, all of whom were concerned about James’ treatment to
Reading Time: 3 minutes I should think you’ve all heard by now the latest sorry chapter in the James Patrick saga. More Disciplinary proceedings. Why? I know what for. Appearing on BBC’s The One Show and giving a radio interview on Five Live without the Job’s authority. Under the circumstances, who would actually have granted that authority? Yes, I
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