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Welcome to the Police Community Forum

Welcome to the Police Community blog! Here, we strive to provide a thriving platform and useful resource for individuals looking to embark on a career in the police service. Whether you're interested in becoming a police officer, a PCSO, or a member of the police staff, you've come to the right place.  Our community is filled with interesting discussions on recruitment and promotion opportunities, as well as invaluable advice on various specialisms within
Chief Rat
From Barmaid to Rookie - Recruitment & Training

Interviewing, Water Rescues & The Witness Box

As requested by @XA84! It's been a while since I last posted an update so I suppose it's about time. Since I last posted, it's been a mixture of really super busy weeks and weeks where we spend our days catching up on things that have changed since we were first taught them, things we missed and things we want to recap. It's really starting to feel like we're almost at the end now and it's kind of a bitter-sweet feeling. I can't wait to get out there, finally, after all these months trainin
alicing
Following the Thin Blue Road

Assessment Centre Briefing

So yesterday was the first stage of the process which involved travelling to the training school. Definitely a trip I hope I'll be making much more before 2017 is out! The Assessment Centre briefing was essentially what it said on the tin. If you're about to go for yours, the gist is that you hand in your relevant ID/qualification/eligibility documents to the Recruitment team, and then sit with your potential future coursemates in the canteen, making small talk until you are called through
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Following the Thin Blue Road

2 years on...

Well well well... I haven't posted on here since the 30th April 2015. Fast forward nearly two years and we've lost the likes of David Bowie and George Michael, Donald Trump is now President of the United States and England's football team still haven't won anything (I guess some things never change).  On the 31st March, I handed in my scrupulously drafted application for a PC role and this morning, 10 days on, I received an email telling me that I was successful in the paper sift. One
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Police Community News

New Partnership, Police Mutual

Police.Community is pleased to announce a new partnership with Police Mutual Police Mutual offer financial services exclusively for serving or retired Police Officers, Staff and your families, this includes packages available to Special Constables. For 150 years, they have been helping serving and retired Officers, Staff and their families with their finances. With no shareholders, they are run for the benefit of their members and the Police Service, which means they can focus on
Chief Cheetah
From Barmaid to Rookie - Recruitment & Training

Training - Half Way Thoughts

I'm a little over half way through 25 weeks training and sat in my hotel room thinking about what's to come next. We've completed our Traffic legislation, which spanned over 2 weeks, and had a consolidation day full of role plays which was really good fun. We get closer to our Driving Course every week and I can't wait to be out in the cars and away from the classroom for 3 weeks, especially after meeting the driver trainers today on our Road Traffic Collision awareness day. I think I'm mor
alicing
From Barmaid to Rookie - Recruitment & Training

Training - Role Plays, PST & Files, Files, Files...

I am now officially going in to week 12 of training school after an annual leave week with only 14 weeks left - nearly half way! It's gone ridiculously fast that I can hardly believe we're in double figures already. It's been a fair few weeks since I last posted an update here, and after a bit of prompting I've decided now is probably a good time. We've been doing a lot of legislation over the past few weeks, and had two consolidation role plays days to practice what we'd learnt. These days
alicing
Happy Valley PCSO Blog

Training and Starting

Good Lord! It's ages since I have had a moment to come back and have a look on here since I last posted, but really, time has flown. I have completed the training and now have started my 10 weeks tutorship.  The 8 weeks training was great, at times I was a little stressed, like when there was a rumour that the officer safety training would have me doing the bleep test 2 days running, but that was nonsense. You can do it, if you want to and the whole class is under 25 or gym fans but ours we
HappyValleyNewbie
From Barmaid to Rookie - Recruitment & Training

Training - Attesting & Arresting - An Update

As week four draws to a close I thought I'd give you another update of our training so far. Sorry for the delay between this post and the last, it's been a busy time and to be honest I wasn't sure if anyone was still interested in reading! In my last post I mentioned our Attestation, so I suppose that is a good place to start for this post. It took place on Friday 16th December and we were told we could invite family members and partners to the ceremony and that it would be a great cha
alicing
From Barmaid to Rookie - Recruitment & Training

Training Week 1 - Ironing & Fancy Dress

Monday 5th December - Friday 9th Decemeber Our first week as Student Police Officers is over! I can genuinely say it's been one of the most exciting weeks of my life so far. Despite feeling glad to be home to catch up on some sleep and see my family, I can't wait for Monday to come around again for week two to be honest. The week went so quickly, and there was a lot of information to take in. We went over things like the Code of Conduct and spoke to people from The Federation and had visits
alicing
From Barmaid to Rookie - Recruitment & Training

The Recruitment Process

This is probably going to be my longest post as it covers such a long amount of time, but I thought I would start off with a post about the recruitment process including the timescale from my initial application to receiving an unconditional offer. I wish I'd had one of these blogs to follow when I started the whole process myself so hopefully it's useful for people who are in the middle of/are thinking of applying! I dropped out of my first year of University in February 2016 to pursue my dream
alicing
Police Community News

New Links Directory

Providing those useful links to other partnership sites and support networks that can help in all sets of circumstances is something that we felt would be beneficial to our membership and would be useful to have in one, simple to use directory. Whether that be from locating the web address of a local force or federation office through to receiving help, guidance and support from 3rd sector organisations that can help those in need we hope that Links Directory is something that is of use. 
Chief Bakes
A hypothetical Day in the life...

And so it continues

Please note, this entry provides description of an RTC which some may find distressing - No significant detail/location/names have been written It is not a fatal RTC So as the duties continue, everyone knows that it is not always blue lights, fights and bringing offenders to justice. sometimes it just falls that you aren't in the right place at the right time. So for the first duty in this blog, I got the station, grabbed a car, crewed up with a probie and set out hunting.... 5 hours
PCW
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Police Community News

A New Look & Membership Discount

You can't help but have noticed that the site has changed in how it looks, well this is part of our two year anniversary celebration.  Believe it or not it is almost two years to the day since we launched. The site was created about a week before we went live in 2014 and the moderation team who came over worked really hard for that week to populate it ready for an influx of new members.  Who would have thought that two years later we would be where we are. We have kept the site up to t
Chief Cheetah
A hypothetical Day in the life...

The Beginning...ish

Now every good story starts from the beginning, however, this is not something I can do as my mind does not stretch that far back and I would be making it up otherwise. And with this being the first blog I have ever even composed It may not read fantastically so you'll just have to put up with it I shall go back as far as I can remember... once upon a time in a land far.... no wait that's something else It's about 2230hrs,  late in the year so by this point it was dark and it was
PCW
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Police Community News

New VIP Feature - Ignore Topics

For some time there has always been the facility to follow content and be notified of responses as and when replies are made to your favourite topics but how about those topics that you read and then question why they keep appearing in your news feed as they are of no interest to you?  Well as of today as a VIP or Lifetime VIP member you will have the ability to Ignore Topics. This will prevent it coming up in your news feed and in any searches you make if you choose to ignore it. You will
Chief Bakes
IPLDP (Training for the regs!)

IPLDP (training for the regs!) - Role-plays

So here I am, updating you after 15~ weeks - I've been meaning to for a while and have had several not-so-subtle reminders from certain members to do so *cough*  @XA84  *cough* ... Where do I start? I'm not going to go week by week as in my previous entry, as that would take more time than I have to spare. Well I'm actually in week 20 of training now and a lot has happened since my last blog post. There have been many ups and downs in that time and at the moment training really does feel l
Eddzz!!
Becoming a PC - My Blog

Becoming a PC - My Blog

So, taking influence from @Eddzz!! and his wonderful blog, I've decided to post my own spin on what it means / involves to become a PC.  I got the official go ahead about 2 1/2 weeks ago that I had been successful and I would be on the next intake, which starts on Monday October 24th. Lots of paperwork, forms and signatures to complete before then. I've been invited for a pre employment day on Saturday 15th October at the force training school. This is to be shown around, meet your new trai
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Happy Valley PCSO Blog

PCSO Blog and boots

So I'm convalescing. I had a BCC tumour on my snozzle, sounds gross and a little wow but really it was nothing, other than making me look like a cast member of The Wizzard of Oz. OH of course had a melt down during my recruitment process but after lots of letters and phone calls my surgeon reassured them that it was nothing and I wasn't going to keel over on guard duty because of it, they were fine.  Well, it's been whipped off by a very nice surgeon from Oxford and the skin graft has taken well
HappyValleyNewbie
Happy Valley PCSO Blog

PCSO Blog

I shall post my experiences as I go along, so others can compare or have an idea what's going to happen or what was different for them. If I bore anyone just scroll past  it's going to be a sort of Blog. For you exciting OSU or firearms officers with your really cool uniforms ( or so says my daughter ) please feel free to scroll on by ok, so after passing all the requirements back in 2014, I sadly got the email telling me that due to Buget cuts, the whole of the 80 odd PCSO's would be she
HappyValleyNewbie
Newb special on response

If there's ever a time I thought I was going to die..

I'm sure you're all very familiar with the last weeks news of Daily shootings, Mass shootings and such incidents.   I'll try and set the scene for what follows, Me and my colleague are both walking through the busy town centre, 10;45am on the lovely sunny Monday morning Begining our shift. Nothing out of the ordinary yet, we'd done a loop of the town and began to walk through the centre past, just past the local food places. A Member of the public leaned in as if to say something, whil
Eebs
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IPLDP (Training for the regs!)

IPLDP (Training for the regs!) - 4 weeks in

I have been meaning to write this blog for a while and as I sit here studying for my definitions check this Friday, I can think of no better time than to avoid said study and put into words my experiences over the past five weeks! I'm hoping this will give prospective recruits a little bit of insight into the IPLDP format and I intend on writing a series of blogs as my time on the course progresses. So here goes... In my force, an IPLDP course consists of 18 recruits, no more, no less and n
Eddzz!!
Fun with Animals while on Patrol

PIgzilla

A month or two ago I had a call about a found pig.  I knew that there was a litter of 2 week old pigs down the road from where the call was so thought it would be no problem to grab the piglet and toss it in the pick-up truck and return it.  I arrived to find a 350 pound sow with auction numbers painted on her back. Well fudge, that is NOT portable. So I drove around knocking on doors for awhile and finally discovered it belonged to a friend of mine whose husband had bought it on a whim.  T
gsdk9
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Tempo's Special Blog

Protecting the vulnerable

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 6 Months Duty time: 1700-0200   All times are estimates due to PNB not being handy...   1700: Get kitted up and head down to briefing. Say hello to early turn who are now finishing up. Begin briefing, one in the bin who was arrested by the night turn for drink drive who blew 162 on the intox machine… he is still unfit for interview! The section I am on with are good and always make me feel welcome, I supply the cake
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