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jamieMET - "What I Did On Duty" East London Borough

A blog by jamieMET + in General

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About this blog

A blog of shifts selected for a variation of roles and experiences while policing an East London Borough.

Selected in December 2014 as "Best Blog" by PW90

Their blogs have been detailed and informative and offer a great insight into the life of a real, living, breathing SC. Great work on the blogs!

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What I Did On Duty

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 18 months Planned hours: 2100-0600 Location: Metropolitan Police Service All timings are approximate 2100- Arrive at the nick and kit up. Meet up with my colleague for the night, he has a last few items for his IPS status to achieve. We are working with the night shift response team. Briefing complete and waiting for a late turn car to come in so we can head out. It’s a week day evening and I’s probably going to be pretty quiet tonight. PC Rain is als
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What I Did On Duty

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 12 months Planned hours: 0800-2000 Location: Metropolitan Police Service   All timings are approximate   0800- Arrive at the nick and kit up. I’m part of a serial today policing a local stadium for a big football match. West Ham United V Southampton. K.O is at 1300hrs but we need to get to the borough and brief, as well as police the local area before the match. MSC officers are providing all serials, however L2 PO officers are on standby to resp
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What I Did On Duty

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 12 months Planned hours: 2100-0600 Location: Metropolitan Police Service   All timings are approximate   2100- Arrive at the nick and meet up with my regular colleague. We do many shifts together double crewed, and tonight is no different. We are working with the night shift response team. Kit up and briefing complete, last few e-mails dealt with and we are ready to head out as the ‘early’ car   2200- Head straight out to a collapsed male in a
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What I Did On Duty

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 12 months Planned hours: 0900-1700 Location: Metropolitan Police Service   All timings are approximate   0800- Arrive at the nick and kit up. Meet up with who I will be patrolling with for the shift. As there are more officers than required, we are split into effectively two teams. One team will be patrolling the market, while the other will be staying with the IRV and taking CADs. The team would be rotated throughout the shift.   0900- IRV is
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What I Did On Duty

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 12 months Planned hours: 1400-2200 Location: Metropolitan Police Service Type of shift: Borough action day     1200- Arrive at the nick and kit up early as I have some intel reports to add with a non-IPS officer that will be parading with me today. I also had to create a report for an incident I attended a few nights ago which wasn’t at the time deemed appropriate for a report, but a supervisor had decided it was. So all of that was completed and
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What I Did On Duty

Rank - Special Constable Service – First Duty Location – Metropolitan Police Service Duty - 2000-0400 All times are approximate 1830- Arrive at the PS to find my locker and get changed for the first time. Then up to the office to check my access to the various computer systems has been activated, along with having my e-mail client sorted out. One password wasn’t received so I had to speak with tech support to get the final default password sent over. I was now biding my time looking over the e
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