• What You Measure is What You Get.

    Einstein : Not everything that can be counted counts. And not everything that counts can be counted.

  • About me.

    I know enough to know that at 04.00am it gets dark out on the streets. It has done this for the last twenty odd years, to my knowledge and will probably continue for the forseeable future. At some stage in this ‘future’ I shall retire and probably won’t give a damn if it still gets dark at 04.00am. Until then I shall be out there, somewhere, lurking in the shadows because someone, somewhere will be doing stuff they shouldn’t and then, well then I will introduce myself. In the meanwhile I shall try to remain sane and remember why I joined in the first place and try to ignore all the people who piss me off by making the job more complicated than it should be.

  • Opinions

    Any opinions contained in posts are mine and mine alone. Many of them will not be those of any Police Force, Police Organisation or Police Service around this country. The opinions are based on many years of working within the field of practical operational Police work and reflect the desire to do things with the minimum of interference by way of duplication for the benefit of others who themselves do not do the same job. I recognise that we all perform a wide range of roles and this is essential to make the system work. If you don’t like what you see remember you are only one click on the mouse away from leaving. I accept no responsibility for the comments left by others.

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  • C.T.C. Constabulary.

    A Strategic Community Diversity Partnership. We are cutting bureaucracy and reducing the recording of target and monitoring related statistics. Our senior leaders will drive small, economical cars from our fleet surplus to save money to invest in better equipment for our frontline response officers. We are investing money to reinstate station canteens for the benefits of those 24/7 response officers. We have a pursuit policy. The message is that if you commit an offence and use a vehicle, we will follow you and stop you if necessary. It is your duty to stop when the lights and sirens are on. We take account of the findings of the Force questionnaire and are reducing the administration and management levels and returning these officers to frontline response duties. We insist on a work-life balance. We have no political masters. We are implimenting selection processes that take account of an individuals skills and proven abilities for the job. Our senior leaders will have one foot in reality and still possess the operational Policing skills they have long forgotton about and seldom used. All ranks are Police Officers first and specialists second. We will impliment career development and performance evaluation monitoring of our leaders by those officers who operate under that leadership. The most important role is that of Constable. All other roles are there to positively support the role and the responsibility of Constable and the duties performed.

  • Whichendbites

    “We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising. It can be a wonderful method of creating the illusion of progress while creating confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.”......Petronius

  • Just so.

    Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

  • Reality.

    Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

  • Rank V’s Responsibility

    Don't confuse your idea of how important you are with the responsibility of your role.

  • Meetings.

    If you had to identify, in one word, why we will never achieve our full potential, Meetings would be that word.

  • There is always a bigger picture.

    When there is no answer to your problem, there is always deflection from the need to justify giving an answer.

Cascade

Posted on June 30, 2007 by whichendbites

Cascade………..I like the word cascade. Not as nice a word as moist, but a very good word, none the less. Cascade…………I like the word. I already said that, thats how much I like it.
It sounds like a word of falling, diluting as it falls, the responsibility falling like a stone, fragmenting into grains of [...]

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Most popular penholder in America

Posted on June 29, 2007 by whichendbites

This is supposed to be the most popular pen holder in America at the moment, apparently.I wonder why ?

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Police & puddles

Posted on June 29, 2007 by whichendbites

I have just seen this, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvdpYgX4f7Qconcerning some of our colleagues and some water, very funny, but not for those concerned.
Remember, out there someone is watching and waiting.

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Under Pressure

Posted on June 26, 2007 by whichendbites

The Police Service is under pressure to meet a Home Office target of 7% of officers coming from non-white backgrounds by 2009. Police chiefs have admitted they face a massive task convincing officers of the merits of plans to push job applications from white males to the bottom of the pile.
The Association of Chief Police [...]

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Vacancies at Car Park Central

Posted on June 26, 2007 by whichendbites

Whilst looking through some papers for the recycling trip I came across an article which reminded me of this, http://whichendbites.blogspot.com/2007/06/what-difference-day-makes.html
It appears that in an Essex town the Police are asking residents if they can have permission to park their cars on empty drives for the day. They were informed that the presence of cars on [...]

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Tough on crime ?

Posted on June 24, 2007 by whichendbites

After over a week following my computer crashing I have been subject to considerable depression with the constant and regular accounts in the media that show exactly how tough on crime this government really is. Not only do the persistent offenders appear to get next to no meaningful sentences, they also appear about to be [...]

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Beer or make-up ?

Posted on June 12, 2007 by whichendbites

After some darker moments I am in need of a laugh. This cheered me up.

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People who live in glass houses.

Posted on June 12, 2007 by whichendbites

I heard a bit of what the outgoing Prime Minister was saying during his reported comments concerning his slating of sections of the media. Feral hordes of reporters ripping the reputations of people to shreds.
The race for the latest updates on every ‘hot’ story appear to give the impression that reporting the news is fast [...]

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Officer down

Posted on June 11, 2007 by whichendbites

Yet another frontline officer has been killed whilst on duty and protecting the public.Pc Jonathan Henry was responded to an report of an attack on a window cleaner in George Street, Luton. He died at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. Reports state that officers used a baton round and Taser electric stun gun [...]

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Arrests over ‘dolphin harassment’

Posted on June 9, 2007 by whichendbites

Dave the dolphin is protected by animal welfare legislation as he swims in waters off the Kent coast. Two men are being questioned following their arrest after police received harassment reports against the dolphin.
Insp Gavin Roy said: “They are protected by law and should be treated with respect.”
Animal welfare charities have previously expressed [...]

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