Yesterday evening, I sat in our local church at the Jubilee concert, and listened to Jerusalem belted out by enthusiastic children from our village school. We still do this kind of thing in the Shire...
The new Windor-inspired anti-social pay allowance was intended to make sure that frontline police officers like me, who work at night, get paid more than the keyboard rattlers who inhabit the richly ...
2001. Conservatives complain about Labour taking people’s pensions. 2001. Conservatives complain about Labour cutting police numbers.
I have just noticed that the Stats counter at the top right of the Blog has gone past the 10 million mark. This is such an awesome number I don’t know what to say about it. My best memory of th...
“Your job is nothing more, and nothing less, than to cut crime” Theresa May, 29th June 2010. In Ruralshire, the courts are so weak that our persistent offenders are not afraid of the proc...
Last year’s Manchester Pride queen is to stand for police commissioner. Mr Felse – whose drag alter ego is Ethol Mary – also stood for the English Democrats in last week’s Salford mayoral contest. He...
The ‘Winsor report’ as we all know it actually has a formal title. Here it is: Independent Review of Police Officer’s & Staff Remuneration & Conditions. The key word is Inde...
What a week for policing in England & Wales. GMP decided to unilaterally bin the ACPO definition of a racist incident after one of the most shocking serial-crimes of the decade, while at the same...
It starts to get scary at about 1.06. Will the British people ever accept this kind of thing? At the moment, this kind of activity has slid past the public’s attention by stealth because it onl...
Both of the individuals in this clip will be electing their local police commissioner in November. One person thinks that the Road Traffic Act does not apply to her because it is something to do with...
To recognise the appeasement policy announced by the Met that Union Jack tie-pin badges will be banned during the olympics, we are giving away a free pair of London 2012 Olympic Patrol Boots to the f...
Oh look, a load of fat, uneducated, overpaid racist Met police are dealing with a man who has gas canisters strapped to his body. He is suffering from mental health issues (aren’t all suicide b...
26 April 2012 Dear colleague, Our march in London on 10th May will send a very powerful message to Government; as police officers we are outraged at the way we are being treated and we have real conc...
“Being arrested isn’t a lesson, it’s just an administrative blip” Russell Brand, Home Affairs Select Committee, 24th April 2012. In many ways, Russell Brand has said in one se...
Today is St George’s Day. Ruralshire Constabulary did not allow the flying of the St George’s flag over any of the rapidly decreasing number of properties owned by Ruralshire Police Autho...
Alfie Meadows is the poster boy for police brutality. His story represents all that is bad about the brutal uniformed henchmen of the ruling class. Described by fellow students and lecturers as ̵...
Remember the fiasco over PACE in June 2011? For a few mad weeks, the government lost control of the reins of power in one small but hugely important area. You can read about the whole sorry event her...
HOME Secretary Theresa May has stepped into the row over controversial police “privatisation” plans – praising the West Midlands force for its “innovative” proposals. Mrs May told MPs: “The West Midl...
Ruralshire Constabulary, in common with every other police force, has a regular, glossy and quite irritating internal newspaper. For as long as anyone can remember now, the whole paper has been dedic...
Liam Stacey anyone? Yet again; one rule for them (people who attack the police as opposed to say, a footballer) You can respond in three ways: Let her know what you think: https://twitter.com/#!/khan...
Those poetry competitions are clearly not working. Who could have foreseen that? Here is what most of us are thinking; if anyone has been racist – deal with them and move on. This is all part o...
Once again, just like water, gas, telecommunications, railways and potentially large parts of the NHS, a Conservative government is about to privatise a public sector service provider. This time, it ...
George Galloway – Bradford West. More evidence of why elected Police & Crime Commissioners are such a bad idea. No one really minds when an extremist makes it to the local council, or as a one-te...
If you think the inept management of the fuel crisis is restricted to hapless government ministers; think again. At the 09.00 hrs Tactical Management Meeting this morning, emergency response police c...
I do indeed hope that there is some justice for Alfie Meadows. Meadows is the butter-wouldn’t-melt poster boy for police brutality. In 2010, I was a lone voice claiming that all was not as it s...
The full written ministerial statement issued from Theresa May reacting to Winsor 2 pay/conditions report is her. http://www.parliament.uk/docum ents/commons-vote-office/March _2012/27-03-12/24.Home-Re...
The shooting of five-year-old Thusha Kamaleswaran by hard-eyed feral youths Nathaniel Grant, Kazeem Kolawole and Anthony McCalla has started some interesting debate. I listened to a Jamaican man on B...
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