Who am I ?

Since I joined the Police, way, way back then, I have learned much and performed many, many roles. Some of them easy and some of them not so easy. I have been: a marriage guidance counselor an  acting veterinary nurse, a teacher, a babysitter, I’ve listened to advice from knowledgeable and experienced people, I’ve also listened [...]

Promoting the brand.

Perusing the interweb I found this at Gadget’s blog. I checked, I read, in total disbelief. Hayley Adamson, 16,  was killed when a speeding patrol car with no blue light or sirens on smashed into her in May 2008. The driver  was jailed for three years after being convicted of driving at  94 mph moments [...]

Lets face the music.

The latest round of budgetary and finance meetings at the CTCC appear to have generated more fervour over the need to slash all district and department budgets as well the really big budget with nothing being too radical for the bean counters to ensure that they hit their targets of cutting costs…………………making efficiency savings……………….making Policing affordable…………………ensuring greater [...]

Police force under fire over ‘dog blog’

A taxpayers’ campaign group criticised police recently for “wasting” time and money creating internet blogs “written” by police dogs, a newspaper report stated recently.  Cambridgeshire is the latest force to launch a “dog blog” on its website – others have been produced by Tayside and Avon and Somerset.  Staff say the diary is popular and promotes the [...]

Age old trick

Even I am impressed.

Council Tax.

Old Holborn has come with an interesting slant on the latest council tax ‘demand’ which could catch on. My Council Tax demand for 2010 has just dropped on the mat. £1769.90. Payable in advance. Now, as regular readers will know, I am a Freeman on the Land. Which means I don’t pay demands. I pay [...]

A long way down.

Securely strapped to his handler and with a muzzle to stop him damaging his mouth on landing he plunged 10,000ft from a transporter plane. “It’s something he does a lot and he’s very comfortable with. He has a much cooler head then most recruits,” said one operation trooper. Far from panicking at the experience of [...]

You can run……………..

You can run. You can try to hide. You can try to evade capture by climbing. But you’d better climb high.  

Time for a crackdown.

With budget cuts still underway at the CTCC for the current financial review period, the dribbles of funds left are to be spent in a last crazy effort to show that every last nickle has gone into making our communities safer and to bring offenders to justice. The last 65p went on something or other so [...]

Darkness at last.

About 2 years ago I responded to something on the Gadget blog in relation to the Flannigan report. .   Many bloggers said their piece, but even now we are still awaiting the full consequences of Ronnie’s review.  One of the things he reported was, in my view,  the move towards a glorified Force wide charging [...]