Posts Tagged ‘ in the job ’

The daft prat’s drinking stats.

  • June 25th, 2010
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As is usual at various points in the Police year, those with shinier tactical pants than I could ever dream of come up with an initiative regarding drink-drivers. Don’t be fooled when I say ‘initiative’; they simply send out an e-mail reminding us that it’s bad, and tell us that we should be doing more [ READ MORE ]

Public (dis)Order

  • June 20th, 2010
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Y’know the kind of jobs where the radio operator shouts up that there are reports of a million people fighting with Apache helicopters and guns, only for patrols to turn up and find two or three people complaining about someone’s Facebook status? If you’re in the job you must have been to a few , [ READ MORE ]

Should you be here?

  • March 26th, 2009
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It was a few weeks ago, and we were on nights. We were in the middle of the week, and not much was going on. We had all had time to get traffic collision reports in and tidy up bits of paperwork; the elusive ‘downtime’ we are supposed to have barrels of in the job. [ READ MORE ]

Hitting the ground.

  • March 26th, 2009
  • Posted in Uncategorized

She has not moved at all, but is now looking me in the eye because I stood a step down. I have no words to say to her at that time. I have not been in this situation before. I am not trained to tell a Mother that her son will never walk through the front door again. I finally say that I am sorry, and walk out of the address. The crying Mother does not reply. She has other things on her mind[ READ MORE ]

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