• What You Measure is What You Get.

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    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.

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    “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

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Maximum sentence

Posted on January 4, 2008 by whichendbites

Following conviction the offender was jailed for the maximum term available and the Chairman of the Magistrates sitting over the trial said

“You have caused offence to a large section of society. You are clearly aware of the law but you have shown a blatant and persistent disregard for the law.”

What exactly was this offence that warranted this harsh sentence, perhaps as a deterrant to others ?   Perhaps the previous convictions and custodial sentences for like offences, perhaps that the offender had equipment used to comit these offences and detailed map locations of the offences

Was Offence was it that justified these ends ?   Was it robberies, burglaries, serious assaults, selling drugs, etc etc etc. ?  What about persistent anti-social behaviour, threats and intimidation of NHS staff ?

Gregory Wheal has an ‘addiction’ to colecting bird eggs and was convicted after peregrine falcon and raven eggs were found at his home. He apologised and pleaded guilty.

Tough on crime……………………..

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The 30 Year Rule

Posted on January 4, 2008 by whichendbites

Amongst all the political posturing and policy related stuff released under the 30 year rule the was an interesting story written by the Daily Mail correspondant Andrew Alexander.

He reports that with Jim Callaghan and the Labour Government, with Merlyn Rees as Home Secretary, the Police pay dispute was an intriguing item.

Inflation at the time was a mind-numbing 15%.  Yes fifteen per cent.

Under the Governments strategy to fight inflation through a prices and incomes policy, the Police were offered………………..wait for it……………………..

5%.          Yes  five per cent.     A third of what inflation was running at.

Talk about history repeating itself.  They obviously put away the shafting stick until now.

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Overseas detections ?

Posted on January 4, 2008 by whichendbites

Well there are a constant list of staffing problems with links to targets that need hitting. This is all part of the measuring culture to find things to measure to try to put in targets and the relevant list of target indicators that the targets allocated towards things obtained by all this measuring.

We have phones to answer, resources to allocate to jobs, arrival in a certain time, the list is endless, as is the resources to allocate to the jobs that come in. There is ample crime to respond to and to investigate.

We are we sending UK Police Officers to investigate offences in Pakistan ?

As far as I know there is no target for this, not yet any way.

What are the target indicators likely to be ? What are the rules of engagement likely to be ?

I don’t imagine for one minute that the crime scene is still cordoned off by blue & white take, or that CSI have got this one on their list of stuff to do. I can only presume that house to house enqs have already begun and the CCTV tapes have been seized.

Perhaps a prosectuion under the Health & Safety legislation might be a likely outcome.

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