One thing arising from the Home Secretary’s speech this week to the Police Federation conference was the idea of “street triage”. In short, this means a system whereby better health or mental health support is made quickly or immediately available to police officers who are often paired up with health professionals. Now there are various … Continue reading » Share:
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Q. What do cars need to run on?
A. Fuel & Water. Right?! Run out of fuel and they stop. Run out of water and they overheat and eventually stop.
Q. What do humans need to run on?
A. Fuel & Water. Right? Run out of fuel and they stop. Run out of water and they overheat and eventually stop?
Q. What do you do if the petrol light appears on your dash board?
A. Refuel right?
Q. What do you do if you're hungry?
A. Refuel right?
OK, science lesson over kids! Our petrol light was on. We didn't have enough fuel in the tank to safely do another job so were shown 'unavailable' to go an refuel. It was 5:30pm. I'd been at work since 6:30am. I had not had a break. I had not had a hot meal for almost 24 hours. The venting machine at the local hospital was out of order. Petrol stations sell sandwiches. I needed a sandwich. My headache also told me I probably needed something to drink too! As gin is frowned upon whilst on duty some Ribena would have to do! As luck would have it, in the petrol station they do a...
I read with interest at the employment tribunal between the Metropolitan Police and ex DC Kevin Maxwell.
In an interview in the Guardian, Maxwell talks about the abuse he received from his colleagues relating to his race and sexuality.
He is a black gay male who was dismissed for gross misconduct in December 2012 after he went off sick with depression having been the victim of both racial and homophobic bullying in the workplace. He won his first employment tribunal in February 2012. The tribunal found in favour of Maxwell on 40 points. 4 – 0.
In an interview with the Guardian he states that he made his first complaint about colleagues in July 2009 using him as a ‘buffer’ – asking him to stop Black and Asian people first before his colleagues took over as they stated that ‘blacks don’t complain about blacks’.
In March 2009 another officer made comments about gay men ‘taking it up the arse’, and a DS whilst doing a presentation to colleagues in June 2009 put up a picture...
A plan by police chiefs to introduce a new system of secret arrests has been thrown into doubt after Theresa May intervened to insist forces should confirm to the media the names of people who are not charged.
This would effectively end the practice whereby police forces would give journalists an off the record steer that a name was correct if it was put to them.
The Home Secretary had previously indicated her support for the move, providing there was no change to the system of naming people once they had been charged.
But now in an unexpected intervention, Mrs May has said she supports the idea of police forces confirming when the media puts correct names to them.
The proposals are due to go before the College of Policing on Monday to be discussed and ratified.
But writing in The Sun newspaper Mrs May indicated her concern that the plans were going too far.
The Chief Constable regrets to notify staff of the death on 10th May 2013 of retired member of staff Claire Spillett at the age of 48 years. Claire joined the force on 21st September 1987 and after 23 years and 7 months service was ill health retired on 2nd May 2011. Claire spent the majority of her career in Criminal Justice with her last post being within Quality Assurance based at Reigate.
Our late colleague is survived by her husband Eric. At this time please can any letters or cards of condolence be sent to Eric via Samantha Goolding, Criminal Justice, CPS Offices, The Gateway, Guildford.
Funeral arrangements are still to be arranged and once confirmed will be circulated.
The Ukip leader was left stranded in the middle of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, surrounded by around 50 nationalists and socialists calling him a racist, but demanding that he: “Go home to England”.
Police officers attempted to persuade two taxi drivers to take Mr Farage away from the trouble but both refused as the protesters continued to barrack the MEP with chants of “racist Nazi scum”.
A shaken Mr Farage told reporters: “We have never had a reception like this anywhere in Britain before. Clearly, it’s anti-British and anti-English. They hate the Union Jack.”
Police officers then insisted for his own safety that he enter the Canon’s Gait pub, the wooden doors of which were then locked.
The protesters continued to jeer and shout abuse, with some unveiling a 20ft banner that, referring to next year’s referendum, stated: “Vote Yes for Scotland”.
An LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) from the U.S. Coast Guard-manned USS Samuel Chase disembarks troops of Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division (the Big Red One) wading onto the Fox Green section of Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944. American soldiers encountered the newly formed German 352nd Division when landing. During the initial landing two-thirds of the Company E became casualties. (Credit) MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY
THE Special Air Service planned to mount a raid on Argentina by submarine in order to destroy the Argentine navy's stock of Exocet missiles, according to a new book on the Falklands conflict.
Argentina was known to have bought five Exocet missiles from France before the outbreak of hostilities in April 1982. Two were used in the attack on the destroyer Sheffield, which alerted the British to the Exocet threat, and Task Force commanders were desperate to destroy the remainder.
The submarine raid came about after the decision to scrap Operation Mikado, a plan to land a detachment of SAS in two RAF Hercules at the Argentine airfield at Rio Grande on Tierra del Fuego, where the Exocet-equipped unit was based. The aim was to destroy the missiles, the five Super Etendard aircraft that carried them, and to kill the pilots.
According to Task Force, which reveals for the first time the full details of Operation Mikado, British commanders then devised a fresh plan using the Royal Navy submarine Onyx to...
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service has “already delivered” many of the suggestions outlined in Sir Ken Knight’s report on cutting expenditure in national fire and rescue services, it was revealed today.
Fire deaths and injuries and the number of accidental house fires in the county are down while fire engines and firefighter numbers have also fallen in proportion.
The fire service in Shropshire costs only £43 per head of population compared to almost £60 for the most costly fire services. Read more
At a time when the government has assigned police to conduct their own traffic prosecutions in newly designated dedicated traffic courts an interesting debate was yesterday held in the House of Commons: Road Traffic Offences (Sentencing).
The Fire Brigades Union today commented on the Knight Review of the fire service. FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said: “The review of the fire and rescue service by Ken Knight is just a fig leaf for slashing our fire and rescue service to bits. David Cameron has promised to protect front line services. That has been exposed as a lie over the past three years as the fire service has faced the biggest cuts in its history.
“It is not just the Fire Brigades Union warning about this. Increasingly others in the fire service, including Chief Officers, are concerned over our ability to deliver this essential service. Fire stations are being closed and fire engines are being axed. Last year alone a further 1,200 firefighter jobs were cut. All these cuts mean a poorer service for the public. They mean waiting longer for a fire engine if you have a fire or other emergency.
Ken Knight is attempting to bury all these facts in order to justify further cuts in the government’s forthcoming spending review.”
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OK, science lesson over kids! Our petrol light was on. We didn't have enough fuel in the tank to safely do another job so were shown 'unavailable' to go an refuel. It was 5:30pm. I'd been at work since 6:30am. I had not had a break. I had not had a hot meal for almost 24 hours. The venting machine at the local hospital was out of order. Petrol stations sell sandwiches. I needed a sandwich. My headache also told me I probably needed something to drink too! As gin is frowned upon whilst on duty some Ribena would have to do! As luck would have it, in the petrol station they do a...
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At a time when the government has assigned police to conduct their own traffic prosecutions in newly designated dedicated 
