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Welcome to Police Community

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

New Moderator - Rosemary

Folks I would like to welcome to the Moderation Team @Rosemary who has been a great supporter of the forum and stood out to the team as being an excellent candidate for the position of Moderator. I'm sure you will give Rosemary a very warm welcome and ensure that the same level of respect etc is shown towards Rosemary as you do the rest of the team.  Best Wishes Chief Bakes
Chief Bakes

New Moderator - Uppy

Folks I would like to welcome to the Moderation Team @Uppy who has been a great supporter of the forum and stood out to the team as being an excellent candidate for the position of Moderator. I'm sure you will give Uppy a very warm welcome and ensure that the same level of respect etc is shown towards Uppy as you do the rest of the team.  Best Wishes Chief Bakes
Chief Bakes

My First Duty as a Special Constable

Rank: Special Constable Planned duty time: 0830HRS-1630HRS Length of service: First duty   So I have recently had my first duty, I have had good fun reading other members blogs on this site so I thought I would begin to put down some things from my shifts for others to read and also for myself to read back in the future perhaps. Do bare with me I'm not a talented writer and this is the first one!  All times are estimates as my PNB is at the station. 0830: Meet with fellow special that I wi
Tempo
  • Tempo

Mid Month Saturday Night (with added rain)

A quick Government Health Warning to you Regulars out there.  Us Specials compare notes in detail about you.  We talk about who we like to work with, who is good in a scrap, who makes the best brews/cakes and which pairings always manage to be deployed in far flung villages while the pubs and clubs are kicking out.  One of the things we also rate is the quality of your Response driving – it’s very subjective seeing as we only have A to B grading but even so it varies between “Have we actually go
MajorDisaster

Testing, Testing, 123

What's the most times you've ever edited a post you made?  Edited it because something was wrong or didn't look right?  Maybe you added something thinking it would look brilliant but in the end it didn't so you edited it.  Maybe you wanted to add something but thought it wouldn't look good so you didn't. We may have a solution for you. Another new feature we have added is our new Test Area. You need to be logged in to use it but that is about as far as the rules go (aside from normal forum rul
Chief Cheetah

Pay Day Saturday Night in Town!

So, here we go with another Saturday night shift. Timings reasonably accurate - taken from PNB 1930 - On duty, with the legendary Joe, and two ladies whom we will call L1 and L2 to save their blushes (Joe is beyond saving!) 1945 - Immediate call so jump in with L1 and head to a carpark where a group of pre-teens have come across an older chap who has taken a tumble and has a cut above the eye.  They have called 999 and given rudimentary first aid.  He is a little drunk and takes some persuadin
MajorDisaster

Saturday Night Time Economy

Saturday Night, Response, 2000-0400.  All timings approx 2000:  Get in in a bit of a rush but looking forward to it as Code B are on and they are very Special Friendly - also one particular officer (Joe) is on and there's never a dull moment when I'm paired with him-at this point however he is out with RPU and some of the others are on another task so... 2015: Another officer and I head off with a Sgt from the south of the county to look for a specific habitual drink driver.  On the way a car
MajorDisaster

Police Community Premier League Table

Points make prizes. I present to you the Police Community Premier League Table Another new feature we are presenting to you is a league table.  At the end of the month a member wins our member of the month award for their overall contribution to the forum in that month, this premier league table is for the same purpose except that we will be awarding the prize of 'Member Of The Year'. So how do you win points?  Easy, just enter and win our competitions, including the daily threads and you'll
Chief Cheetah

County Day Shift

Rank SC Length of service 6 months Shift: 0900-1600 Response 0830: get in and the sarge asks me to go to another station ten miles away as his officers are all over the place.  He has two students with tutors who are with assessors, four in custody on prisoner observation (including two on "poo watch" - some people get all the best jobs), so I team up with a chap I've worked with before and we head down to his location for a brew.  The sarge there breaks the good news to us that the Chief Con
MajorDisaster

Looking for a job in a Police force?

Looking for a job within the police?  Any force or a specific one?  What kind of job? Police?  Staff? Special Constable? PCSO? To help you with your recruitment interests we now have a completely new area dedicated solely to the recruitment status of every force.   We have listed all the forces in England, Scotland and Wales and each one shows the current position on recruitment.  You can see at a glance if a specific force is actively recruiting for any of the four main roles, Police Constabl
Chief Cheetah

Last shift before my transfer

My last shift for a while due to resigning to go home from Uni forever! Was a decent one and will hopefully be back soon albeit with another force Rank: Special Constable Length of Service: 1yr 3mths Planned Hours: 1500-0000 Type of Shift: Immediate Response   1520: Arrive at the nick, no cakes because I've been in my last uni exam so its prearranged lateness!! Kit up and go to meet my tutor who I've worked with for most of my short service who I would now call more of a friend than a colle
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14 hours

A particularly lengthy tour of duty I recently did down to my bad judgement, however my most independent yet! Writing this to procrastinate from my uni revision so hope it's a good read!! Rank: Special Constable Length of Service: 1yr 2mths Planned Hours: 1500-0000 Type of Shift: Immediate Response 1430: Leave for the nick and kit up, go into the reports room and check emails, last shifts lock up's outcome and make sure a particularly tricky customer from a few weeks still hasn't made a com
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Bank Holiday Night Response

OK, my first blog entry. Rank: SC Experience:6 Months Duty: Response, 1900-0400, Sunday night of a Bank Holiday weekend - all timings approx. 1900:  Get in and do the self brief and some paperwork.  The Sgt has been working away so it's the first time I've met him though I know the others on duty. 1940:  Just as a coffee arrives a call comes in from a single crewed officer who has detained three men and a van round the back of a shopping block - sus theft by finding.  The Sarge and I go  do
MajorDisaster

How well are you doing? A new feature.

Ever wondered how you are doing with regards to your contribution and post count compared to others? Well now you can wonder no longer as I introduce to you the Member Leader Board. This can be found in the links bar on the top of all pages under the 'Members' heading.  It can be seen by all members but not by guests. The bottom row will show what your contribution is and is only view-able to you so that you can compare your figures against the highest scoring 25 members by week, month, year a
Chief Cheetah

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
jamieMET

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
jamieMET

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
jamieMET

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
jamieMET

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
jamieMET

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
jamieMET

Community Leads

As you should all hopefully now have noticed our communities set up in the force specific areas are beginning to grow very nicely.  This is in no small part thanks to the brilliant community leads we have that are running and managing those communities. In total we have 49 communities on the forum but so far only 20 of them have a community lead.  We really want the other 29 areas to have a community lead of their own so if you want to be a part of the team managing the forum then this is your
Chief Cheetah

Use Of Force Crests As Avatars

Use of force crests as avatars Unless you have express written permission form the force in question we are not able to use any force logos, crests or insignias in any back ground pictures or as avatars etc.  If you do get written permission from a force then we will need to see a copy of that. This isn't me being a killjoy as we have in fact in the past been asked to remove them by forces, it is their property and they are protecting it.  If any forces want to come on board with us that will
Chief Cheetah

Tapatalk Beta Release

Folks I know some of you used tapatalk quite a lot prior to the upgrade and are wanting it back asap. We want it back for all of you too and with this in mind I have decided to install the BETA release of the tapatalk plugin. Tapatalk will again work on this site but please be mindful certain aspects will be broken, it is a beta and not final release. Any bugs with tapatalk are not a fault on our side, they are purely an issue with the plugin. As tapatalk release updates to the beta to correct
Chief Bakes

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