Taking a break

I am taking a break from blogging while I deal with other matters!! Back at some point!

TIME FOR A REMINDER!!

It’s been a while since this was first posted on a blog and thought is was time for a second helping of how we must be vigilant with our prisoners at all times.

Please watch each others back out there, all the time!!

The government only think we are worth 1.9% so don’t expect them to give a shit about us!!

Stay safe!!!

FED COMMENT ON- FALL IN POLICE NUMBERS

31st January 2008 Reacting to publication of the police service strength report published today, Jan Berry, Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, says:
“We are bitterly disappointed that, despite assurances of record numbers, we saw a fall of 647 police officers in England and Wales during the six months to September 2007.This at a time when ring fenced funding for CSO’s was extended for another year, and we saw an 80% increase in CSOs between October 2006 and September 2007. We had predicted this, but take no pleasure being proved right.
“However the real kick in the stomach comes from our chief officers, who instead of demanding no decline in police officer numbers, trumpet an increase in police personnel. They may be prepared to sell police officers down the river, but we will fight to ensure that the politically independent multi-skilled police constable remains at the heart of policing.”
ACPO: OVERALL POLICE PERSONNEL NUMBERS UP 0.8%
31st January 2008 Commenting on the release of police service strength statistics for England and Wales, ACPO President Chief Constable Ken Jones said:
“The snapshot on police service numbers released today shows an increase of 1,796 (0.8%) on police personnel for the six months to 30th September 2007. 21st century policing is a collective effort involving police personnel, local government, and a range of other partners. This approach has allowed us to introduce neighbourhood policing across the UK. Effective policing is delivered through placing staff with the right skills in the right jobs and these figures reflect the valuable contribution that PCSOs and police staff are making alongside sworn officers.
“Within the overall pattern of growth individual forces, as ever, continue to experience fluctuations in service strength as they adjust to the financial settlement over the next three years.
“Looking ahead, forces will continue to seek efficiencies and savings in all areas, reducing service numbers often as a last resort. While the demands on policing continue to rise and over 80% of force budgets are spent on costs directly related to headcounts, it remains the case that reductions in both police staff and officers may occur in some forces as they adjust to a tighter financial settlement over the next three years.”

WHAT A COMPLETE TOOL

WHAT A MUPPET

 

 

 

Paul Routledge of the Daily Mirror has quite obviously had a bad experience or found himself on the wrong side of the law, because this article he wrote for today’s issue of the Mirror has absolutely nothing intelligent about it what so ever. Almost as if it was written by a juvenile delinquent who is trying to throw some mud and make it stick.

He bleats on about how the protest in London was an illegal strike by the Police!! Please Mr Routledge take your head out of your ass and grow up!! Unlike tabloid journalists we have standards, integrity and a degree of professionalism!!

Don’t try to say how 950 officers attending from Manchester constabulary can throw doubt on the fact that the Police are understaffed, people are entitled to have time off work!! remember we have to work 7 days a week and will have rest days on a week day.

And for your labelling the Police as impertinent, surely that is the pot calling the kettle black!!!

 

 

 

 

Incase the Mirror delete the post. Here it is.

I’ve had enough of police whining
Paul Routledge 25/01/2008

 

Wednesday was Burglars’ Holiday, courtesy of the massed ranks of police officers who took the day off to invade Westminster.

More than 20,000 coppers wearing silly white baseball caps deserted the thick blue line to protest about being given a pay rise.

I wonder who was protecting us while they exercised their unlawful right to hold a one-day strike in the capital. Their law-abiding mates, I suppose.

This work stoppage must have been illegal because it can’t be true that every one of the 25,000 protesters took a legitimate day off.

And they are forbidden by statute to strike. The Manchester force alone sent 950 officers to London. Yet police chiefs are always moaning they are undermanned.

The opposite is plainly true. I suppose the protesters will make up any lost dosh in overtime. The average copper makes £2,900 a year that way, at an annual cost to the nation of £440million.

That’s on top of their salaries, which go up by around a thousand quid every year, on top of the 2.5 per cent rise that upset them so much. There comes a point when we have to say “enough is enough”, and they should calm down and accept they cannot have everything they want.

That point has now been reached. Most workers would envy the policeman’s salary, his fat, index-linked pension, his early retirement and his generous sick pay and his immunity from prosecution when he shoots dead a mildly inebriated Scotsman for the crime of carrying a chair leg in a public place.

The same police who demand the right to lock up people for 42 days without charge, and possibly without even saying what they are supposed to have done. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, the politician who says cops can’t have their cash, is still willing to believe police chiefs need SIX WEEKS to interview suspects.

This business of unelected police bosses telling the elected government what its policies should be has to stop. And the place to stop it is the House of Commons, where MPs are being asked - no, told - to back new detention laws.

Aside from the merits of the case, it’s good for governments to be defeated occasionally. Taking ministers down a peg or two does wonders for their egos. But this time it would be sound policy too.

Tony Blair tried to keep suspects detained for 90 days, and had to settle for 28. MPs should keep it at that - if only to put the impertinent police in their place.

A WALK IN THE CITY

We went for a stroll around London today!!

 

There were quite a few of us!

We wanted certain people to take notice!

 

Thanks to the Met for watching over things, they did a great job!!

Even if there were a few who were jumping on our bandwagon!

We have sent our message to the Government loud and clear!

This is not the end, only the beginning!!

Watch this space for more!!

MORE SICKENING NEWS

Below is a story taken from the Telegraph online, the same story is being run by the Mirror also. Unfortunately I don’t have the photograph that was printed in the papers that shows the horrific injuries sustained by this poor lady.

Amazingly the culprit was sentenced for manslaughter only 2 years prior to this for taking part in kicking a man to death in a similar incident and was somehow on the streets again.

When will scum like this be dealt with exactly how the people of this country want them to be dealt with? quite frankly we are pissed off with the system! it doesn’t fu#*ing work. Prison is better than most of these peoples own homes so they are more than happy to be sent there.  Maybe we should sub contract our prison service to somewhere like China.

UPDATE!

I now have some images of the terrible injuries sustained in this dreadful assault.

 

A killer released early from prison went on to launch an horrific attack on a woman just three miles from where Garry Newlove was kicked to death by a gang of teenage thugs.

Nicholas Hague, 22, left his victim Susan Collins, 60, on a life support machine after he kicked her to the ground and repeatedly stamped on her face when she refused to give him a cigarette.

She needed surgery to remove a blood clot from between her skull and her brain and is now blind in one eye. Four metal plates were used to help reconstruct her face.

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Hague had consumed several litres of cider and had two pints in a pub before the attack in May last year in Warrington, Cheshire. In a police interview, he called his victim “an old cow”.

He was previously jailed for 18 months in September 2005 after admitting the manslaughter of former airline worker Gary Kneen, 31, who was kicked to death in November 2004. Another man was convicted of Mr Kneen’s murder.

Hague, who was found guilty of helping with the attack, was released shortly after being sentenced because of the amount of time he had spent on remand.

Yesterday, Mrs Collins criticised the decision to release him.

“Hague should not have been allowed out of jail early, he should have stayed in and done all the time. He is violent and he will always be violent,” she said.

The mother of one had complained to police several times in the run up to the attack that she was being tormented by gangs.

“I think they should bring the cane back in schools because there’s no discipline, or put them in the Army or somewhere where they are going to get disciplined for a long time under police supervision.

“I’ve had kids breaking my nose, making fun, trying to set fire to my house. I’ve had it all, so I know what I’m talking about,” she said.

Yesterday, Hague began an open-ended sentence for causing grievous bodily harm. At Warrington Crown Court, Judge Nicholas Woodward sentenced Hague to an indeterminate term of imprisonment for public protection and branded him a “dangerous young man”.

He was ordered to spend at least three years and 162 days in prison, but warned it was “extremely unlikely” that his release would be considered at that stage.

This week, three teenagers were found guilty of kicking Mr Newlove, 47, to death just three miles from where Hague attacked Mrs Collins.

The father of three was murdered when he confronted a gang outside his home who had been making his life “a misery”.

OPPORTUNITY

Someone I know has contacted me to ask me to post this on my blog! He is 100% trustworthy and your identity will be kept secret.
Below is a copy of the email sent to me.

 

I am researching a book about modern policing in the United Kingdom.
For the book to be accurate and informative I would like to include the thoughts of some Police Officers, PCSOs and support staff on the subjects I am covering.  To that end I am looking to speak in the strictest confidence to Police Officers, PCSOs and support staff from across the country, from a variety of ranks, roles, specialisms and lengths of service.  Recent retirees would be welcome.
Interviews will be conducted in absolute confidence, preferably face to face or by email.  Your name and personal details will not be requested or used.  Anonymity is absolutely guaranteed so interviewees can speak freely.
If you are interested in contributing, please email me at  police_book@hotmail.com  To help me select a cross section of interviewees, please provide in complete confidence your rank, specialist unit if applicable, length of service, force name and if you are city/town/rural based.
You may prefer to use a free email account for peace of mind.  All emails will receive a reply and those selected will have interviews arranged at a time convenient to you.  I hope to hear from you soon.

CLOSE SHAVE

I can assume that some of the passengers and crew of flight BA038 are looking for a clean pair of shorts!!
I can imagine the mayhem for Police officers on duty at the time!! Nightmare!!

THIS REALLY IS IMPORTANT!!

My thanks to Inspector Gadget for bringing this to my attention!
Jack Brown is only 5 years old and is suffering from a rare childhood cancer, neuroblastoma. Treatment for this rare cancer is only available in the USA and is expensive, so much so that we need to help raise $750,000 so Jack can get treatment.
What makes this a little closer to home for all of us Police bloggers is the fact that Jack’s parents are both Detective Sergeants in the MET, so please can we do all we can to raise awareness for them. Visit the appeal website here and pass the message on!!

THE LATEST ON POLICE PAY

This is well worth a read