Say it with chocolates

A  young woman who punched a policeman was spared jail because she had bought him a box of chocolates to apologise.
Kylie Fisk, 20, lashed out as officers tried to break up a brawl she was involved in outside her home. She screamed abuse, kicked a police car and punched Sergeant Alistair Livingstone in the mouth, [...]

Our priority is you.

The Organisation, as always, tries its best to be seen to be getting best value. For the Organisation you understand. Efforts to promote the brand continue at Norfolk Constabulary to the extent they have arrived at the decision to invest some £35,000 to do this.
Perhaps they have got some funds returned from an Icelandic Bank, who knows ?
They [...]

Never Forget.

Corporate posters.

The Joys of modern Policing. Found this over here, an interesting Photo taken outside New Scotland Yard.    What next? “You are being raped… ring 999 / You have been raped… ring  0300 123 1212 ”. I am sure there are very good reasons for this system, but if you’re going to use a different number, how about using [...]

Counters counting the counted.

Being aware of the reported supposed reduction in crime it appears that all is not quite what it seems. Or at least not quite what it is supposed to seem. The other side of the coin appears to be a little different, as one would expect, unless you have the politician’sview of this after flipping [...]

Unwelcome visitors

We drive in a tight formation to the point where we have agreed to meet. Me and the other handler get out and enter one of the other vans to continue. We wait for a few moments. There is tension in the air and everyone has their job to do.
The line of Police vehicles begin [...]

Police Dogs are different.

The calls come in on a regular basis. travel between the requests poses a problem with increasing time delays because of travel. Sometimes as soon as I am on the way to one call, another comes up local. Unfortunate, but sometimes it goes that way. There simply are not enough of us to go around.
After [...]

Different Worlds

I roll up for briefing and take my chair, cuppa in hand and listen to whats going on in the world tonight.
In the CTCC we still have dog handlers who still work nights.
The shed and garage breaks on the Britannia Estate, the pub breaks that have moved just out of town to the small villages, [...]

Crime prevention advice.

A gardener who fenced off his allotment with barbed wire after being targeted by thieves has been ordered to take it down – in case intruders scratch themselves.
Bill Malcolm erected the 3ft fence after thieves struck three times in just four months, stealing tools worth around £300 from his shed and ransacking his vegetable patch.
A [...]

Public Services or investment profits ?

I have been hearing from the various forms of National media, who report that the local authorities have no extra money for services for old people, closure of hospital wards, libraries, schools being merged to save money etc etc etc etc etc etc…………………..cuts, cuts, cuts. All the time more cutbacks, because they have no funds or have [...]