Reading Time: 3 minutes Dear Reader The Home Office has kindly released the figures for the ‘Policing Strength of England and Wales’ as at 31st March 2012, Yesterday’s headline figure was that approx 5,000 officers had left their forces since the same time last year. What they’re not so keen to tell you is that the Civil Staff (or […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute At 09:30 this morning the Home Office released the latest batch of data laying out the policing strength of England and Wales 31st March 2011 to 31st March 2012. The headline figure is that the total manpower has dropped a further 5,000 officers since end of March last year, which in itself was approx 4,000
Reading Time: 6 minutes OK, so I’ve done with Overtime for a while. I know we’ve all had the Tom Winsor, Case & White, G4S, Lincolnshire debate for days now, but I’d thought I’d have a stab at putting it all together in one place, try not to put too much of my own spin on it, and let
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Colleagues, friends, fellow conspirators, I have had many an argument with Forces across the land about what constitutes Casual Overtime as it relates to my Freedom of Information Act request. Basically, for the benefit of our non-police friends, overtime falls into one of two categories Casual and Pre-Planned. Some forces prefer to call Casual Overtime
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello world, One or two of you have suggested that I should enter the world of blogging, which is something I had not previously considered. A few words of introduction would be appropriate at the moment I guess. I’m Alan, 50 something (well 60 soon to be honest) and retired from the Metropolitan Police in
