Send us a postcard.

Well the next time you go off for a spot of annual leave, that you will have booked up to a year in advance after the lottery of dealing with minimum staffing levels and trying to fit in with the rest of your colleagues…………please, please, please bear a small thought in mind for our overworked [...]

Putting on a show.

Well the kids arrived from schools all over the County to see the brave boys and girls from the emergency services doing their bit at the County Emergency Services open day. Good for citizen focus and promoting the brand within the realms of those we can impress with our own style of portrayal of what [...]

You couldn’t make it up.

It seems that Police Dogs can be scary. Some times at least.
I presume this is not the cuddly but somewhat hyperactive little springers or cocker spaniels, the sociable but eternally affable labradors often used in the realms of drugs and explosives detection work. I can only assume that this is aimed at the larger and less understood [...]

Progress and change.

Progress and change are at the forefront of Policing advancement. They suggest moving forward in a positive and meaningful way. They are the bywords of those who have the power to change things, sometimes for the better. they are the words used to create an upward and positive picture at times when negativity and reluctance need clarity [...]

Send in the dogs.

Not being a particularly great lover of the square box, I would like to recommend this program for a bit of a look. Four part docu-real life thingy shown on ITV with glimpses of how the canine support is utilised for a whole variety of reasons. Everyone knows the dogs can track, search and bite, [...]

3 hour rule.

Moving onto the three day rule reduction………now to be the three hour rule……………Guidelines ordering police to respond to emergency calls within three hours and to attend less urgent incidents such as burglaries within three days have been drawn up by the Home Office.
The astonishing proposals were designed as ‘national standards for local policing’ in England [...]

Actions and consequences.

With the numbers of people in the country being killed or injured by the use of knives, the politicians and other prominent public figures come out and publicly portray the concerns of the nation at these worrying events. For the families and friends of those killed or injured, they also become victims, not of the [...]

In the real world…………..a bigger picture exists

At the CTCC we have a new, very important and wonderful position that appears to be just what the Constabulary needs at the moment. At £60 + thousand a year, generous allowances and its own parking place, along with the comparable Ch-Supt  status, is it any wonder that any amount of applicants were in line for a seat [...]

Mr.C - Rank over knowledge.

Whilst visiting The Policeman’s Blog I found this little post from Mr C. called ‘What’s the course called?’
What is it in certain senior officers’ brains that stops them taking advice from a Constable?
Now a PC for over twelve years, I’ve been on many courses – gladly, most to do with frontline operational policing.
PSU, defensive [...]

£8 for a full house.

Muriel Smith is in her 80’s. She has left her house on the Britannia Estate to go to the Pheonix Club because tonight is bingo night and the chance to meet other older people and the younger ones who volunteer to help them socialise and forget about some of their problems. Tonight they have a [...]