Obligations, part 2.

I am here today to pay tribute to you, to the forces you lead, to the local police authorities you work with, and above all, the 140,000 police officers and police staff who each day take responsibility for the protection of all our citizens.
Over the last year I have seen close at hand, in all [...]

Tough on crime.

Between 1986 and 2000 Michael Porter admitted gross indecency and indecent assault offences against young boys as young as 18 months. He was recently convicted and sentenced to a three year rehabilitation order. He escaped a custodial sentence.
He has had mitigation for his circumstances by the fact that he came forward and admitted his involvement. [...]

The morale of the story ?

The Ant and The Grasshopper
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food [...]

Obligations

Isn’t it nice to hear government mouthpieces making reassuring statement about their obligations.
Trouble is, these seem to be towards the Iraq & Afghanistan population and not to things on the domestic front.
Oh yes. The prison officers have gone out on strike after being ignored for too longand not being taken seriously by, the government, funnily [...]

LAS VEGAS CHURCHES

This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Vegas but there are more Catholic Churches than casinos.
Not surprisingly some worshippers at Sunday services give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed around.
Since they get chips from many different casinos the churches have devised a method to collect [...]

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

The seemingly unstoppable tide of youth crime has taken another turn with the sad and unfortunate death of an innocent 11 year old in Liverpool.
Because the victim was so young the slide into a so called new abyss of bad behaviour has been identified and hit mega headline news. This is becoming a now constant [...]

motorway madness

For the last several weeks I have been hearing on the radio at work, on a daily basis, about yet another RTC, formerly RTA that has occurred on the motorways or major roads, sometimes even both, of the road networks that run through my area.
The mayhem, inconvenience and untold delays these events cause to other [...]

Police dogs muzzled

No problems with this poll.
Clearly in favour of keeping our dogs free of muzzles and therefore not restricting their effectiveness. 91% of the votes say so.
Thanks again to those who voted.

Bank Holiday Weekend

Its the bank holiday weekend approaching. There will be football at the weekend, the last of the, laughingly called, summer holiday weekends that will collectively produce some of the greatest demand on the response resources available.
Rest assured that this perceived extra demand will have been carefully planned for with numbers down to minimum levels [...]

Chimps without hoods.

I watched an interesting documentary the other day about chimpazees and drew some amazingly close comparisons with some of the modern, misunderstood youth of todays society.
They live in family groups, the chimps that is, some of them quite large. They have a strict heirarchy and appropriate acceptible behaviour levels. Any deviation from this is enforced [...]