Guys, I’m sorry for the lack of posts lately. My excuse is that I’ve been concentrating on writing my second book.
I hope you’re all well. Today, for the sake of balance, I’d like to report a couple of positive developments within the Metropolitan Police Service. As you can imagine, it’s not east to find such things, so it’s important to report them when they occur.
Firstly, the Met has upgraded it’s computer operating system from Windows XP (1995-2003) to Windows 8.1. Lucky staff that we are, we received an hour of excellent and entertaining training from Microsoft coaches, and learned that Bill Gates, when standing at a Microsoft urinal, is shorter than you might expect.
So, finally we have computers with half-decent functionality, although the hard drives are low spec and there aren’t nearly enough of them. There are however problems: in a typical bizarre snafu, paranoid Met senior management have prevented Microsoft from switching on many useful features. For example, 8.1 allows several...
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The instructors assume the recruits will either teach themselves, or already have a good understanding of the law from having been police volunteers. Obviously, the reality is that they all need intensive training in the detail of criminal law – when I was a new recruit I spent twelve intense weeks at a residential course. In total, I was in training on and off for two years.
 
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