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Wrong email Grommit

Published on September 5, 2010 in France, Illegal immigrants, Mutualaidgate, National Gendarmerie, PACE and water cannon. Closed

written by The Duty Sgt from The Duty Sgt

None of you will know but I have the same name as a senior officer in my force and occasionally get his emails. He gets emails meant for me asking for annual leave which he deletes and I get ones meant for him asking for multi million pound decisions on budgets which I sign off without reading.

Because of this I can exclusively reveal here what I am calling 'Mutualaidgate.'

Following on from the announcement in the media that the British and French Navies will share aircraft carriers I can reveal that my force has been in talks with the National Gendarmerie (French National Police) and has agreed that we will share resources. I think this is a brilliant idea, we can flood the streets with armed officers at the drop of a hat, it will save on translators and we will no longer have to deal with illegal immigrants. We can just dump them all near our ports and provide absolutely no security at all and hope they all make there way to the nearest country and claim asylum there. No more having to go hand to hand with drunken louts on a Saturday night, I can just ring Marcel my counterpart and ask if he can bring his team with the baton guns and water cannon and clear the town for me.

I had a chat with Marcel over croissants and hot chocolate and he wasn't as happy. He was puzzled by the intricacies of PACE and was horrified that in his opinion the criminal had more rights than the Police and victim. He was appalled at the sentences handed out by our courts and outraged at how people who assault officers were treated. In his words "In France they wouldn't do that as they know they will be shot!" He did however agree with me that how Pamela Somerville was treated in custody was out of order no matter how abusive or uncooperative she had been. We both agreed that allowing your own personal feelings to cloud your judgement just gave offenders an excuse to get away with their crimes.

National Gendarmerie coming to a town near you.......

The original post can be found http://thedutysgt.blogspot.com/2010/09/wrong-email-grommit.html

Pamela Somerville – UK Police Brutality SHOCK!

Published on September 5, 2010 in Racist, abusive or excessively liberal comments will not be tolerated. Thank you.. Closed

written by inspectorgadget from POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

There were probably at least eight police officers involved in the ugly and violent treatment of Pamela Somerville in 2008. One was the offender, Sgt Mark Andrews.

The others were the officers who investigated and prosecuted him for the assault, starting with PC Rachel Webb (seen in the video) who immediately reported what had happened.

As a front-line policeman, I hugely sympathise with Ms Somerville. There have been over 370 assaults resulting in serious injury and 3000 other attacks committed on police by members of the public this year. There were something like 50,000 assaults on NHS staff and 8,500 on teaching staff too. So we know what it’s like.

Watching the video of what happened in the Melksham custody area last night, the whole shift here in Ruralshire were of the same opinion; Andrews had clearly gone insane. The whole thing looks so unlike any policing I am used to that I had better refrain from further comment, other than to disappoint the tinfoil hat brigade by writing how genuinely sorry and embarrassed I am that this happened.

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The original post can be found http://inspectorgadget.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/pamela-somerville-uk-police-brutality-shock/

Free bikes for criminals

Published on September 3, 2010 in The Job - General. Closed

written by 200 from 200 Weeks

Suffolk Police are planning to give free bicycles to prolific offenders as part if a scheme to help former offenders get jobs.

The force will give stolen bikes to crooks who wil be expected to use them as transport so they can go off find work.

Detective Inspector Richard Crabtree said the bikes would be on loan would only be given to prolific priority offenders who could be helped.

So they won’t be giving many out, then?

The original post can be found http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/3248

Is It Time To Announce The Death Of Politics?

Published on September 3, 2010 in Uncategorized. Closed

written by allcoppedout from Allcoppedout's Blog

Nietzsche announced the ‘Death of God’, Foucault the ‘Death of Man’ – both bored me until my slow brain got round to working out how much I had failed, dismally, to grasp just how much change we need in our thinking. I believe a programme of consistent thought is possible and that we do not have one. The complexities are beyond me here and I’m interested in whether others ‘feel’ the same.

I really want little part of a world that doesn’t try to escape ‘evolution’ – I once wanted escape from religion but know now this was a small and misguided part of a much bigger quandary about whether we are broadly an irrelevance waiting for the next big rock to hit us or other attack that puts paid to humanity in favour of other, more meaningful or random existence. I want a politics of this, not barmy ‘buggers’ hiring handsome young men with no particular qualifications to share bedrooms with them, or pratting about over an economics that only ever suits those in existing power. It’s pretty clear now we have technology that has changed work and how much of it we need to do. Politics is dead because it doesn’t address anything I want. This would be fine if I could believe it was just something about me. I could then just be pissed off and get on with my own life. I’ll probably do that anyway. I just sense we are on the route to war and politics needs to be dismantled. I know Chomsky goes on about this and have seen ‘radical politics’ in a number of forms.

Obama is clearly something we’ve seen before, and so is our dumb ConDem arrangement. We need much better ways to ignore them and our feeble media. It will be something like sticking flowers down gun barrels.

The original post can be found http://allcoppedout.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/is-it-time-to-announce-the-death-of-politics/

Basics

Published on September 3, 2010 in The Job - Experience. Closed

written by 200 from 200 Weeks

Our call-takers are a constant source of amusement & frustration.

They are responsible for taking the calls from the public then filtering & distilling the information into a computer log which leads the way Me & my officers deal with an incident.

There are some pretty essential constants we, as controllers & subsequently officers, need to know with almost every job; the location we need to send the officer to is pretty key, who we need to see when we get there & where they are is also important, we also like descriptions of the offenders, what they look like, where they are or where they are heading.

If the call-takers took these simple bits of info on every call our lives would be easier.

If only.

The problem is that this type of information is omitted so often that it is not surprising or unusual to have basic detail missed off a log.

This means we either have to send an electronic message back to the call-taker asking for the missing info, or we have to ring the informant back ourselves – which, quite often, is faster & simpler but takes us away from what we should be doing.

Quite often it’s the same people who make the same omissions, time & time again. One wonders what their supervisors do when they are made aware of continuing problems because sorting it out doesn’t appear to be on the list.

And some of them have several years’ service, you’d have thought they’d have grasped the principle by now.

I had a job today where someone called in to say their house had been burgled & their car had been stolen.

Name, telephone number & address of informant – check. Location of burglary informant – check. Details of car – er…

When a car is nicked, we need to put a stolen report on the Police National Computer so that if it is seen or goes through an ANPR camera it comes up as stolen & we have a fighting chance of getting it back & arresting someone. It might even be driving off from the burglary while officers are driving to the scene, but if we don’t know the registration plate let alone what type of car it is what chance have they got of spotting it?

As it turned out I couldn’t assign the burglary for a while as we had all our officers tied up at domestics, so a quick message to the call-taker asking if she took vehicle details was met, 15 minutes later, with the response that they’d tried to call the victim back to get the details (because they forgot to ask the first time) but couldnt get a reply. The car could be driving up & down the police station car park for the next 2 hours & nobody would know it was nicked.

I had another call this week. A gamekeeper was reporting youths setting fire to a car out in the rural area. The location was a forest, not one of the proportions of the New Forest or something out on the wilds of Yorkshire, but the forest was actually bigger than the town it was outside.

I kid you not, the location the call-takers had given for where the offenders were setting light to the car was “in the forest, near some trees”.

The original post can be found http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/3207

New, Larger, Re-designed ‘Scrap The Pledge’ Wristbands.

Published on September 3, 2010 in Check 'Farce Policy' before wearing on duty.. Closed

written by inspectorgadget from POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

“I can announce today that I am scrapping the confidence target and the policing pledge with immediate effect”

Home Secretary Theresa May

ACPO Annual Conference, 28th June 2010

The Pledge and Confidence agendas still exist, and are still damaging our ability to deliver crime fighting policing instead of PR driven policing. As front-line police, we know that Pledge and Confidence targets mean that officers are diverted from crime fighting teams to units set up to implement, audit and monitor ‘performance’.

The ‘Scrap The Pledge Now’ awareness bands are your chance to register your objection to this state of affairs. These wristbands are new, large size and made in black and white to show your diversity credentials. Profits will go towards the cost of sending a free wristband to all 43 Chief Constables in Britain.

Gadget Note: The incident with Sgt Mark Andrews from Wiltshire Police clearly shows that Policing Pledges have no effect with the bad guys in any case. No doubt we will get our share of trolls on this subject; perhaps we should remember that the main prosecution witness was PC Rachel Webb, who witnessed what happened and made an immediate complaint.

The original post can be found http://inspectorgadget.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/new-large-re-designed-scrap-the-pledge-wristbands/

One Rule For Us

Published on September 3, 2010 in Uncategorized. Closed

written by PC Bloggs from PC Bloggs - a Twenty-first Century Police Officer

Apologies for the absence: I blame my computer.

Three years for the Special Constable convicted of beating up an off-duty soldier is fairly hefty, in my opinion. Regardless of what one thinks of the actual assault, SC Lightfoot probably shouldn't have followed up his use of force by lying in court later, which no doubt added to the judge's irritation at the man's actions.

Nothing I've read or seen so far provides convincing proof of SC Lightfoot actually assaulting the victim in this case, however given the number of trials that have taken place (a conviction and appeal for the off-duty soldier, then the officer's trial), it's probably a pretty safe conviction and he probably did use excessive force. Although in of themselves hitting someone repeatedly on the ground, pushing their face into the road and restraining them with several officers may all be justifiable under certain circumstances - and in fact are all trained as approved techniques in officer safety training.

But I do question the sentence given. When recidivist burglars, repeat violent offenders and child abusers walk out of court without gracing the steps of their local prison for even a few moments, two years for an assault with no lasting injury is substantial in itself. And to add a year for the officer lying in the previous trial seems a double standard when we are repeatedly told that it is only to be expected that a guilty man will lie to get out of his crimes and it does not normally constitute a second offence.

Suffice it to say, Peter Lightfoot won't be assaulting anyone else any time soon. But the case has made it harder, and more frightening, for young officers to use the force they need to, when their colleagues depend on it.

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The original post can be found http://pcbloggs.blogspot.com/2010/09/one-rule-for-us.html

Sharing Twin Rooms With Other Men (Not Gay Honest)

Published on September 2, 2010 in Uncategorized. Closed

written by allcoppedout from Allcoppedout's Blog

I have only once shared a twin room with another man when the organisation I was working for could have afforded separate rooms. When skint I’ve done it many times with male and female colleagues. I am now, in light of Mr. Hague’s revelations, unsure of my sexuality, attractiveness and life in general. It is only now I realise I made misjudgements, though I have never been as stupid as Mr. Hague. I really can’t stand the Tories.

We should not care if Hague is gay, occasionally attracted to young men and stuff like that. I’d guess his career is over because we are pathetic as a public. He struck me as more decent than most politicians. I hope he had sex if it suited both. The more awful admission is surely mine. I never did in such circumstances and will be hung only on circumstantial evidence, or possibly by the woman I have forgotten for not remembering! Good luck Douglas. The only arses of interest here belong to those who aren’t human.

The original post can be found http://allcoppedout.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/sharing-twin-rooms-with-other-men-not-gay-honest/

God, Biology and Physics

Published on September 2, 2010 in Uncategorized. Closed

written by allcoppedout from Allcoppedout's Blog

Channel 4 News and BBC Newsnight both gave idiot space tonight to some rot Hawkins is purveying via a ghost-writer that ‘M Theory’ shows us that there is no need for god in science. Quite why this should come up now is odd as ‘M Theory’ is rather old and is not news. We are as likely to find out if William Hague is gay from physics as we are to establish anything about god concepts, and should probably care about as much. Dawkins is all over Channel 4 re-hashing his feeble anti-god diatribe. I have no respect for much religion and refuse to demonstrate such. All I can say is the odd believer I’ve met has turned out to be decent, caring and so on.

David Hume got it right. We should be agnostic and it is only rationalist fantasy to prove or disprove Gawd. The question we should be asking is why our two major news programmes are such idiots as to hack out these old hacks instead of stuff that is not 20 years old, or x-thousand years old in philosophy. We need debate about sensible living. It’s more important to rule out clown idiocy like ‘I’d did it because god’s talking snake told me to and am therefore innocent’ and to wonder about how complex ‘sperm wars’ exist ‘unbuilt by us’, not claptrap from ancient scrolls or the Idols of our childhood and fantasy-history.