• 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.

Local people to set punishments ?

Posted on September 30, 2008 by whichendbites

The Ministry of Justice is expected to say that another 2,500 prisoners have been released early under the Governments’ end of custody licence scheme to ease jail overcrowding.
Local people will be able to set community service punishments for offenders for the first time, under new plans.
As part of pilot schemes in six areas of the [...]

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Banking system reintroduced?

Posted on September 30, 2008 by whichendbites

With the apparent meltdown of some of the leading financial institutions there is likely to be a trend of banking change where under the the mattress or the shoe box in the wardrobe become the banking facility of choice.
Such was the apparent mistrust of the banking institutions that led people to store/save their money in this [...]

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Tick the box – avoid the exercise yard.

Posted on September 29, 2008 by whichendbites

Its that time of numerical and statistical madness again. Having just gotten over the incredibly tedious activity monitoring forms for the targeted and statutory two weeks, after being amongst those carefully and specially selected (again) from the CTCC massed ranks of the Specialist support Department, no sooner has the ink dried on the lines and thoughts [...]

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A red-hot stove always burns.

Posted on September 28, 2008 by whichendbites

Having read this little piece from Kingmagic, it is clear that many of us who operate within what is known as the Public Service Sector have a few things in common.
We are faced with the delights of sections of the general population who have absolutely no regard for anyone else but themselves nor for any [...]

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Credit or caution ?

Posted on September 4, 2008 by whichendbites

It is not often that I applaud the comments of our Chief Officer group. For them it appears that the standard practice is to roll out the prepared positive statements that promote the brand but, at the same time do little or nothing to support the frontline officers who earn their crusts on the streets.
All [...]

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Interesting Times.

Posted on September 3, 2008 by whichendbites

I’m sure you have all heard the comments that Police Officers appear to be getting younger by the year. It seems that after 20 or so years officers do appear to be getting younger. Perhaps this is a sign of getting older. Who knows ?
I had to head towards the hallowed halls of CTCC HQ for [...]

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Motive answer.

Posted on September 1, 2008 by whichendbites

Answer:
   
She was hoping the guy would re-appear at her sister’s funeral.  
If you  answered this correctly, you think like a psychopath.  
This was a test by a famous American Psychologist used to test if one has the same mentality as a killer.  
Many arrested serial killers took part in the testing and answered the question correctly.
   
  
If you didn’t answer the question correctly, good [...]

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