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The World If I Ruled

This blog has alone accustomed my angle on how I see policing and action issues, and that angle is from somebody who by my own acceptance has suffered accent so yield it as you will. No agnosticism some of my angle accept been able at times and not to the affection of all. 

As I'm almost algid and at affluence with action at present I can cycle with it and not get too formed up about work. There are about things I would like to see afflicted in policing. During the advance of autograph this blog and against my issues I've in fact managed to get answer to Inspector. You ability anticipate this gives me ascendancy over foreground band supply but acutely this isn't the case. I am the assignment administrator on a acknowledgment aggregation in a active breadth with a audacious bulk of admiral to accord with the appeal of calls. I could in fact accommodate a bigger account if I was accustomed to but others removed from what I do assume to apperceive best. Here are the solutions: 

Response policing is in fact absolutely simple, all you've got to do is accommodated demand. Pro action in the old faculty is absent to us and larboard to the squads who accept time to go hunting for villains. Making it bigger agency bringing aback celerity of assets to the bounded Division. I'm old abundant to accept formed in an old comms allowance as a PC and went on to be a Ambassador amenable for all bounded deployments. The sad accuracy is that the centralised radio celerity arrangement brought in by a lot of force areas is not fit for purpose and isn't alive for the foreground line. Everybody knows this afar from chief administration who are mightily afflicted that their targets for acrimonious up the buzz to the accessible are improving. 

It's a abashment that we are not as acceptable in in fact accepting to those calls. I sit and attending at the continued account of calls and abounding of them don't crave a badge administrator to attend. As a ambassador I would accept sorted out a lot of of them as not getting badge affairs or by giving admonition over the phone. Unfortunately the Ambassador is continued dead. By bringing aback this role bounded administration would be bigger with the appropriate units getting beatific to the appropriate calls. Knowing the abilities of your agents and who ability be bath and diving never able the Controller. 

There are in fact dozens of badge and PCSO's on assignment anniversary day but they are not adaptable because action dictates they are ring belted to attending afterwards their own portfolios. Neighbourhood teams can alone yield calls on their exhausted if the alarm blazon matches their bounded priorities. This is carelessness and it is carelessness inflicted by badge managers searching afterwards their own areas of business. Now I've formed in association and it's no accident for those alive in that acreage to yield some of the plan from response. I in fact adopted to address all burglaries on my application so I could yield time to attending afterwards the victim's and get a feel for who was blame my patch. It's absolutely a time and motion affair and application the a lot of of assets available. 

Will somebody accept the assurance to go aback and do this? Don't authority your breath. I whined a few months aback about my anytime abbreviating aggregation of officers. Since again I've absent added and added to little squads that pop up. I'm told they will yield plan from us, but afterwards a few weeks of them cogent me how active they are, some of the plan comes aback to us because of their "insufficient capacity". 

I am in fact abashed and addled at the numbers we've been bargain to but still we backpack on, but humans are alpha to wobble. How continued afore they abatement over? I don't aphorism the apple - I can't even be trusted it appears to run my aggregation the way I wish to. To be fair even my administration are dictated to by address who assume to apperceive best. I'll do my best to run my little aggregation behindhand but now I apprehend affairs are getting fabricated to accept us awning added Divisions as able-bodied in the name of efficiency. The Ambassador is dead, so is accepted faculty it seems.

A Prediction

Sometimes you can ahead added plan advancing forth so here's a little prediction. I am a technophobe about am acquainted that in abounding adaptable devices, (Apple for one) that you can either actuate a GPS tracker or in the newer versions it's there as standard. Abundant for badge if your buzz is absolutely baseborn by robbery and you wish it back. 

Not abundant for badge if your buzz is "Lost/Stolen" in a pub. 

I adumbrate added than a few bashed bodies advancing our way with expectations that we'll bead aggregate in adjustment to clue their "Stolen" phone. I accept buzz providers are already sending humans down to the nick, accepting told them what we can do. 

We'll see !!

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Knives Out - Tribute to Gadget

One of the constants in my life the past few years has been the influence of The Inspector Gadget Blog. With the demise of good old Night Jack this was the go to place to see policing "AS IT IS". I have been known to pop in for time to time with the odd comment.

I've been a constant reader for years - I don't even think he'd got to 100k hits when I first lurked, as Copperfield was the designated place for disaffected moaning troops.

I hardly recognised the bureaucracy and rubbish he wrote about, as I work in Metroland. It didn't take long however for those new religions in ACPO thinking to filter through to my own Force area. We've even got some of the same self proclaimed "leaders" who pander to their political masters. Some of us are still fighting and want the truth out, but maybe from the inside is the place to influence and show up the present style of leadership that moulds future policing. This is a different job to the one I joined over 25 years ago and a different culture exists .... apathy rules along with Money. I'd like to believe that the only thing that matters is people - both on the staff side and the public at large. If we get that right the policing will look after itself without the measures.    

Challenging upwards in whatever way you can is a true Leadership trait and Mr Gadget (one assumes a Mr.) appears to have it in spades. I never knew Gadget but then I did, because we see the same things. I'm delighted to see he is also a Radiohead fan and wish him all the best in his retirement.

From a Hat - I salute and Thank You Gadget. Enjoy Retirement.      

Eyes Wide Shut

Parallels = Same Result

Okay I've digested Winsor 2, but I'd actually read the transcript of conversations that had taken place with The Federation so no real surprises in there for me! So what is happening here and why?

It just so happens, that this week Petrol Tanker drivers have voted to strike. There are some interesting parallels here that need examination. I declare an interest as my old man used to be one, and if I wasn't doing Policing, I would have been living in Essex probably doing the same. I am friends with people who are in Unite and I know what has happened in the past few years in that business.

In my father's day he was employed by an oil company to deliver fuel and oil. He was therefore enrolled into their pension scheme, which was one of the best in the private sector. It is a skilled job and safety is the name of the game as effectively you are driving a potential bomb. The drills are everything and routing, cambers, loading, unloading and entry into delivery sites is taken very seriously, with an expectation to act on near misses reported by the drivers. It has therefore been well paid and "The Company" could well afford it.

About 20 years ago "The Company" then decided to save money and put the delivery side of its business out to contract. Tenders were made and effectively the drivers were off the books and employed by whoever got the 5 year contract. Terms and Conditions changed and the longer service people were either paid off or were offered £20k in compensation to take a 25% pay cut. They were most importantly out of the pension scheme and accrued payments were frozen, and then into an inferior pension with the contract winner, where to benefit they would have to work longer.

Over the years market forces ensured that salary rates stayed low. The staff turnover was higher as people were often attracted elsewhere, and in driving circles petrol delivery still remained better paid so recruitment was never going to be a problem. Although safety is still high on the agenda, safety incidents are I'm told up, as are the resulting dismissals. Had a PollColl recently? Imagine getting a written warning if you are found at fault instead of some points on your police driving record.

A few years back the wages had effectively not increased much and the union stood their ground for a raise in salary. Oil prices were at an all time high as were company profits for oil companies. Media dirty tricks kicked in to paint the drivers as "greedy" yet same job 17 years after conditions changed, only paid the same money as previously? That was some erosion in pay if you were employed on the old terms.

Interesting times ahead for Policing. G4S will now obviously take parts of core policing and see above for what I suspect it means for current police officers. I think I blogged previously that PCSO's would go that way eventually but never thought that would come to warranted officers. Getting police off the Public Sector pension liability is good for the taxpayer and I suspect an experiment for other public services.

Did you used to judge those people on demonstrations when they went on about corporate greed? Maybe their eyes were open!!

If I'm honest I can see why they'd do this. Policing is not the efficient common sense disciplined occupation I joined over 25 years ago. It really is simple put more on relief to deal with what the public want and dispose of the central control and performance monitoring. There's your 20% savings.

I'm Still Standing

Hello - It's been a while and thought I'd pop in for a one off post.

Since I stopped blogging the Country has continued on a downward trajectory and this once fantastic job has followed the trend line. A few years back I would have been ranting about it but there are more important things in life to worry about. I used to sell my soul in my chosen trade and the past couple of years have learnt that I can't do it any more and find myself hanging on.

I am affected by the Winsor stitch up, losing increments but will escape anything that Hutton throws up in relation to my Pension. If I take into account some Army service I can go with a full pension in about 2 years time. I am physically injured and mentally shot but in a better place than previously. I don't work the long hours that I used to and feel healthier for it, although occasionally massage my ego with some extra specialist duty that results in jail time for those I play with. It might mean finishing at 3 or 4 in the morning and still having to make Early Turn but that's a personal thing and I'm not motivated by money as I don't incur overtime anymore.

I do find myself somewhat in a quandary about the financial situation the country is in. As one of Maggie's children I'm very small state minded and see the need for a smaller public sector and the need to cut pensions. It is a good deal we have and obviously unaffordable for the Country at large in the longer term, but that was the deal when I signed on the line and put my body through the grinder. I've fulfilled my side of the bargain policing the streets on shift for most of my service, and have the scars and pains to show for it. NuLabor dodged the big decision at the time on Pensions, however a double hit on Police, targeting Pay and Conditions followed by the Hutton change is in my opinion unfair as it presently stands. I doubt very much if it would have happened if The Police Federation had looked into Full Industrial Rights a few years back. I'd rather HMG looked at benefit tourism, as my eyes tell me there's plenty of savings to be made there, due to European integration, Who did vote for that?

I fear the writing is on the wall and this once Great Institution is heading for privatisation in some form. That means that the Office of Constable will become a thing of the past and all about indicators and bottom lines. If they understood policing and it was just about crime then OK what's the problem? - but Policing is about People and picking up the pieces where other agencies are so obviously failing. Police Officers care and do outstanding work with the Mentally Ill and Young People in a preventative way, along with so many other interactions that are not crime related. The question I pose is, if we don't do it - Who will? Just look at Social Service provision out of office hours and think who currently fills that gap. There are not many indicators in baby sitting children in Police Protection for several hours whilst waiting for Social Services to grind into some action.

I had the opportunity when out with an MP on patrol to tell it the way it was. He listened and knew I spoke the truth, however the truth is not in line with current government policy or I doubt personal MP career progression.

The facts are it's going to get worse before it's get better. The situation is what it is .. Do your best and try to be happy, and remember you can't change the world but you can possibly do real good for somebody on that next call. That's your reward !!