Investing in People ?

Investing in People ? Now what’s all that about then ? Sounds like another trendy in-phrase that gets bandied about and is great in practice but is ignored in reality. Perhaps you’ve never been shafted by the management and you think itis a good thing. Perhaps, then again, you have been shafted and the phrase [...]

Sheltered accommodation for sex offenders

Five convicted sex offenders in Miami have been forced to live under a noisy highway bridge by the local authorities.The five men live under the Julia Tuttle Causeway because of laws which prevent sex offenders from living near schools, parks and other places children gather. The law makes it nearly impossible for them to find [...]

Locked away, securely ?

It appears that some more ‘dangerous’ convicted criminals have decided to walk out of an open prison. This is something that appears to happen with a monotonous regularity. These are not your average low level offenders but serious and dangerous people who should not be approached by the public. Murder being one of the offences [...]

All in the same boat ?

Somewhere down in the Constabulary, out there, somewhere, there seems to be confusion about allocation of incidents, locally known as ‘jobs’ from communications to the officers out on the ground. It may be the case that jobs are allocated to increase the numbers of jobs being allocated and thusly reduce the time taken to allocate [...]

Penalty Notice success ?

The Home Office insist that the on the spot fines from penalty notices are working, allegedly. Apparently they allow for fast and effective justice and are keen to extend the scheme. When you consider recent media reports that half of the fines are not paid, as high as two thirds in some areas, then the [...]

Freedom of Expression

So, freedom of expression………………….What’s all that about then ? My understanding is, that it is being permitted to express your opinion in a public forum even if others may disagree with you? The UN have decreed in the Universal declaration of Human Rights that: Everyone has the right to opinions without interference and to seek, [...]

Pay Restraint ordered.

It seems that there is an eager push to call for pay restraint within the public service sector. I am sure we will be included in this when our time comes around.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6408061.stm I trust that all will be equal in other areas, but perhaps not all as equal as it should be, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6205852.stm It appears [...]

Talking CCTV

No, its not a joke, the really is talking CCTV. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6524495.stm Another development of Big Brother overseeing a town or city near you, an invaluable aide to public safety and crime prevention or another step to replacing officers on the streets ??? You decide. They don’t go off for refs breaks, don’t get tied up [...]

Personal issue computers

Heard an interesting story the other day. Picture this, a busy place where officers need to have daily access to computer technology to input the myriad of duplicated statistics, get the latest intel, crime trends, check messages etc etc etc. Sometimes they have to do this more than once a day. Within this building there [...]

Total Recall

I’ve just got over the surprise of reading this article, http://tonysharp.blogspot.com/2007/04/police-managers-massaging-detection.html and decided to calm myself with a bit of total-recall from a dim and distant past. Can anyone remember parading for duty at 15 minutes before the hour, actually stood in the briefing room whilst the Sgt carried out the briefing, told you what [...]