Windsor 2

So Tom Windsor wants to ‘modernise’ the pay and conditions of UK police.

As I read it he wants to make me an employee, not a holder of public office and servant of the Crown and cut my wages.

Well Mr Windsor, treat me like and employee and I WILL act like one. The goodwill will disappear overnight.

Why don’t you stick to trains, you’ve yet to sort them out anyway!

PS

Section 91 of the Police Act 1996 makes it an offence for anyone to cause or attempt to cause disaffection amongst the police or to induce a
Police officer to withhold their services.

Given the circumstances maybe someone should caution and RFS Mrs May and Mr Windsor as the offence seems complete to my illiterate, unskilled, overpaid and obese eye.

If the Fed have the balls to do this when Mrs Mayspeaks at the next conference, then I would gladly pay double for my Fed subs

Windsor part 1 and PAT

Feel like we’ve been liked firmly in the teeth!

Why don’t we all have Taser yet?

Wow. Almost a year since my last post. Been kinda busy, but that’s no excuse. Anyways seems like nothing has changed in my abscence.

This time it’s 4 colleagues not going home at the end of their shift.

We need Taser NOW!

Why we should have Taser as standard issue equipment

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-england-london-12003691

My thoughts are with the injured PC and PCSO and their families. Wishing you a speedy recovery and I hope they throw the book at this piece of scum.

This is why we should be issued Taser as standard. No need to get hands on with nasty bastards like this. A quick nip from the Taser and no one seriously injured.

Ask yourself one question

Student protesters who feel aggrieved by police ask yourselves one thing…..

What would Gene Hunt do?

You all got off lightly if you ask me.

A rest is as good as a change, or something like that

I’ve been on leave for the last few weeks and I must say it’s been great. 31 days (so far) of doing very little and not having to think about police work. I say very little but in this time Mrs Soon-to-be-Deputy has become the official Mrs Deputy.

Whilst I’ve been off I’ve been thankful that I’ve not had to be involved in policing all these student protests. As a recovering student myself, I have to say that the behaviour of these so called best and brightest has been completely appalling. I went on marches as a student and never once felt the need to assault police officers, burn something or throw a fire extinguisher from a rooftop. Perhaps it was he way I was brought up, you know, to respect people and to earn things in life for yourself and to be told “no” once in a while.

Well done to the Thin Blue Line though. Absolutely top notch public order policing.

The armchair juries that call themselves the media wanted softly softly policing of protests and that’s exactly what they got, resulting in lord only knows how many £ worth of damage and running lines on the streets.

If we’d been left to police the protests properly then I doubt there would have been as much chaos.

Hopefully these “protests” (the inverted commas are there because I do not believe that these really were protests, more an opportunity for people who go out looking to cause chaos to find it) will show the public that we know what’s best in a public order situation, not the tabloids, and it will allow us to get back to doing our job properly.

Right to a fair trial

So Louise Casey has called for more cases to be heard at Magistrates Court because many criminals play the system and clog up the Crown Courts.

Thank heavens fir that, I thought it was just me.

It really annoys me to see criminals stringing out a case at Crown (where the normal rules of Time and Space cease to exist and everything moves at the pace of an arthritic snail queuing at the Post Office) only to plead guilty on the day. All of the cases I’ve been to Crown for, save one, have not gone to trial because the defendant changed his plea when the witnesses turned up and more to the point they were quite clearly guilty. What annoys me more is that their defence solicitors KNOW they are guilty and seem to come up with ever more inventive ways to squeeze every penny out of Legal Aid.

With the way the CPS works these days, if someone is charged with an offence, then the case is more or less water tight. Any hint of a possible defence and it’s NFA all the way. Therefore if you’re in front of a Magistrate then you’ve done something wrong to be there i’n the first place and should just man up and admit it.

I blame defence solicitors. How is it fair that I have to disclose my evidence to them before interviewing their client and they then get to have a completely confidential meeting with their client. What’s to stop the brief wording up the accused? Surely in the interests of fairness these conversations should be recorded and played in court if necessary. I’m confident that if this was the case then more people would simply admit what they’ve done instead of coming up with some story and plead guilty at the first possible opportunity in Magistrate’s Court.

Giving Magistrates better sentencing powers and reducing the worse than useless community orders etc dished out to career criminals would save so
much money.