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- Number of special constables falling towards all-time low
  
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  Decline in number of volunteer warranted officers has been increasing in last two years.
  
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  Guidelines educate officers on 'generally unfamiliar' topic.
  
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- Automated interviews to save police time when recruiting specials
  
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- Train officers or risk more choking deaths, says coroner
  
  Fedster posted a topic in Police Oracle Features, November 5
  
  Several officers have faced IOPC investigations after suspects swallowed drugs and died.
  
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- Vast majority of watchdog-directed hearings result in no finding against officer
  
  Fedster posted a topic in Police Oracle Features, October 31
  
  Some 71 per cent of cases ordered by the IOPC were unproven or dismissed before they could finish.
  
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- Coming to an advertising hoarding near you . . . Brand Met
  
  Fedster posted a topic in Police Oracle Features, November 1
  
  Force hopes licensing its marque will act as recruitment drive to 'inspire future generations'.
  
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- 'It made my blood boil': No one wants responsibility for presentation branded 'racist'
  
  Fedster posted a topic in Police Oracle Features, October 31
  
  Presentation allegedly implied unborn child would become a criminal.
  
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- Ex-detective used job as 'recruitment centre' for his own sexual gratification
  
  Fedster posted a topic in Police Oracle Features, November 2
  
  A total of 21 women came forward to make allegations about his conduct.
  
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- Restraint of drug-swallower was proportionate, says watchdog
  
  Fedster posted a topic in Police Oracle Features, October 30
  
  Edir Frederico Da Costa lost consciousness after his arrest and died a week later. Violence erupted at protests that followed.
  
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- MDP struggling to address firearms training problems because of lack of resources
  
  Fedster posted a topic in Police Oracle Features, October 29
  
  The College of Policing standards licence was restored in May.
  
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