• 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.

Happy New Year.

Posted on December 31, 2007 by whichendbites

My best wishes go to everyone who will be out there, working this evening. I hope that we all have a quiet and trouble free night and that the early evening good spirits carry on through the night into the new year. In the words of Sgt. Phil Esterhaus,  “Lets be careful out there.” 

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Chris Roberts.

Posted on December 29, 2007 by whichendbites

Metropolitan Police Officer Chris Roberts is the latest of a line of Officers to lose his life whilst on duty. My thoughts go out to his family, his friends and colleagues.

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MPs pay demands.

Posted on December 24, 2007 by whichendbites

It seems that reports in the media indicate that our MPs are asking, nay demanding, a pay increase of up to £6000 despite the Governments clear wish for pay restraint. This is despite all of the extra financial allowances that they are able to claim. Sources report that the Senior Salaries Review Board say that salaries for [...]

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Dear Santa……………

Posted on December 24, 2007 by whichendbites

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2008. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to visit. Be careful out there.

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The Last Post.

Posted on December 19, 2007 by whichendbites

And not a bugle in sight. This was the final offering on 25th October from Belfast Peeler. No replies, no comments posted, a sad way to finish off what was a pretty good effort at free speech. I don’t know where you have gone or who you were but I hope you are well. You [...]

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Fiscal prudence.

Posted on December 18, 2007 by whichendbites

If I believe what I hear on the news this evening,  now we have the added insult that support staff will be given the 2.5% backdated to september. Nothing to do with them having a union to call for strike action ? I am not quibbling over the news that support staff will get 2.5%, [...]

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Ghost of Christmas past.

Posted on December 15, 2007 by whichendbites

Its a few days before Christmas. Dave, as I’ll call him, an only son has come back on home leave. He’s in the Army. Its dangerous and stressful. He has been looking forward to coming home for months. He’s 18 years old and is looking forward to time with his family after a tour abroad and some beer with [...]

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Stats are the new black

Posted on December 14, 2007 by whichendbites

It seems that stats are the new trendy way to assess performance in our target driven world of targets and statistics.  Who am I kidding here, they are the lazy way to assess performance.  Very convenient for those who have just too many meetings to attend and very inconvenient for those who have no meetings [...]

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Treaty or Constitution, vote or no vote ?

Posted on December 14, 2007 by whichendbites

It appears that my voting paper to allow me to participate in the National Referendum over the European Treaty or Constitution, or whatever it is called nowadays, may have become lost in the post or lost along with the rest of the things that have been lost or mislaid recently. I saw on the news [...]

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Early release scheme – success ?

Posted on December 11, 2007 by whichendbites

As part of the Governments early release scheme to make space in our prisons to allow even more convicted criminals to be incarcerated, therefore protecting the public, the decision was made to release non-violent prisoners before their sentences were complete. Complete in so much that they qualify for release as opposed to completing the length [...]

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