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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

Latest Forum Software

As you should all have noticed the forum software has now been updated to the latest version. There have been one or two changes and these have caused a couple of issues for some of our members.  With this in mind this blog post should hopefully help you out with a couple of things. Notifications As some of you will have noticed you may have started receiving more notifications (emails).  This is in part to how the site was original
Chief Cheetah

Life and Death

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 3 months Duty time: 1500-2200   All times are estimates:   1500: all kitted up head on down to the briefing room. Say Hi to the skipper and a few of the guys who are in and ready for briefing. Find who I am crewed with, Ive been with him before and he is a good laugh   1540: First call of the day…comes through as an assault so make our way towards on blues.   1550: Arrive. Greeted by a large group of
Tempo
  • Tempo

Finding my feet

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 3 months  Duty time:1800HRS-0115HRS   1800: Get to the station and say hi to the skipper and a few of the guys who are on this evening. I had never been on with the section who were on, but they all seemed nice and welcoming! Go and kit up and get crewed with a regular. About to check briefing but we are called up to deal with a disturbance at a property nearby. Arrive to the property to find a female at the door who is angry about claims she is du
Tempo
  • Tempo

PURSUIT :D Traffic attachment 2 and 3 of 3

during day 2 we just seized some vehicles and did some TORs , Bit boring to describe that for a few hours ( but i enjoyed it ) Day 3: Rank:SC      Length of Service:3 months       Planned Hours:0700x1500      Type of Shift:Traffic 0700; Gear up at breifing, get out callsign and my colleague/prep the car **** head out for an operation  ****car known for someone wanted and recent fail to stops is spotted and we begin responding along with other units. **** arrive at a location to await d
Eebs
  • Eebs

Traffic attachment 1 of 3 .. I like traffic

Rank:SC      Length of Service:3 months       Planned Hours:0700x1500      Type of Shift:Traffic the Bobby I was with said this was a slow shift even with us trying to be proactive. 0650: arrive to kit up and sign on before briefing  0700 grab our vehicle and kit it out, check everything's working  0715 joint special ops briefing 0730 briefing ends 07:45 quick catch up and were off 0815 arrive on the south bank of the force where we are today and drop some stuff off at the local Nick,
Eebs
  • Eebs

Will - Fun with a Freeman

Rank: S/Sgt Region: Metland Length of Service: 2 years Planned Hours: 1600-0200 assisting response After reading so much about them on this forum (mainly from bensonby!) I recently had the pleasure of meeting a "freeman of the land" so thought I'd write it up... 1530 - Arrive at the station with 2 MSC colleagues. Kit up, grab a callsign and a panda and out we go. 1630 - An I-graded call comes out of a man wielding a knife. We're on the same road (that never happens) so I use the full extent o
Will
  • Will

Out on section

Rank: Special Constable Length of service: 1 month Planned duty time 1700HRS-0300HRS   All times are estimates:   1645: Arrive at station to get kitted up, this will be my second shift out on section with regulars and I have never met the section before so get myself sorted then make my way down to the briefing room as early shift is about to leave. Introduce myself to the team and the sarg. Find who I am crewed with, he is a ex special and a good laugh! Get my order in for the chinese lat
Tempo
  • Tempo

The County Show

Rank:SC Experience: 9 Months Duty: Two days at the County Show. The County Show is the premier annual event in our neck of the woods - it runs for three days but I only did the first two.  Summary of how it went. Day 1:  0730 - Meet up at Station with NPT Sgt, Special Sgt and several other officers.  We go up to the show ground and locate the police tent.  We are sharing with the PCC rep, a drug outreach charity, a military charity and the council crime prevention dept.  There are things for
MajorDisaster

Interviews: A view from across the desk.

Hello all, As many of the posts on this forum relate to recruitment, I thought I'd make a blog entry about my experiences as an SC interviewer in my force. Hopefully this will be useful to those of you who are thinking about applying or currently waiting for your assessment centres, specifically those applying as an SC. I have been on both sides of the table for SC interviews, I remember mine well & remember the feeling of being sat in the waiting room, flinching every time the door opened
HPE
  • HPE

Warrants op

0800.  Meet up in local station with Sgt, the area drug DC,  a uniformed PC, dog handler and three other specials.  Get a briefing on the two search warrants we will be executing - there were supposed to be three but one has been postponed. 0900.  Door answered and in we go.  Mum and toddler are fine, laddo is spark out on the sofa.  We wake him up.  He is not really with it.  The drug dog goes through without any particular indication so we begin searching.  I find a wrap of cannabis between t
MajorDisaster

Saturday nights

Rank: SC Service 8 Months Duty: 1900-0400 ; Response All timings appropriate. 1830.  Arrive and grab my gear.  The duty inspectors are handing over and are very pleased to see me as they are strapped.  I start self briefing. 1840.  The sarge asks me to go from Big Town BT (where I am) to Small Town ST about ten miles away as there is exactly one officer there for the next couple of hours, then only two more.  I don't mind so I grab 'duty clapped out fiesta' (every nick has one!!) and head o
MajorDisaster

Shortest Tour of Duty

The following recollection is purely approximate and occurred several weeks ago. Facts and certain details may be altered or omitted due to memory constraints and data protection. The following what I did on duty post is short and unique to a situation about an off-duty intervention. Rank: Special Constable Length of Service: 1.5 years Type of Shift: Unplanned Location: Merseyside Police 1240 Booked off-duty after completing a module for the PNC from my training centre. It was a hot summers d
Otee
  • Otee

To duty, or not to duty

So, in the spirit of the 'what I did on duty' blogs, I thought I'd fill you in on perhaps my shortest duty ever which occurred only yesterday. I've no doubt that some of you will feel that I acted unnecessarily but I'm satisfied with my actions. All times are approximate as I really wasn't expecting to keep track of time: 15:45 - I've been out for a walk with the dog. We went for a wade in the river and I'm a passenger in the car on the way home. I've just finished looping up her long lead and
Adamski

My first response blog

Rank:SC      Length of Service: 2 Months      Planned Hours:1400x2300      Type of Shift:Response (IRT) 1400: Arrive in breifing to have a superintendant drop by, brieifing complete, and he begins to discuss force model and any questions we may have.  14:30 inspector comes in to tell us we have a few calls waiting, we all grab our vehicles and sgt reads out who we're paired with. I'm working with someone i've never worked with before (I'm yet to ever work with the same person twice :P) Love
Eebs
  • Eebs

IMPORTANT Info For Tapatalk Users

Important information for all of our Tapatalk users. Following the update to our Web Address you will need to take the following actions Log Out of Police Community in the Tapatalk App Delete Police Community from your list in Tapatalk Search again for Police Community Sign back in This will resolve the issue some users are having regarding the missing posts and content. Thanks Cheetah Team Police.Community
Chief Cheetah

New Web Address Is Live

Just a quick note to let you know we have changed the address of the forum from http://forum.policecommunity.co.uk and made it simpler to just http://police.community  All the old links will still work, nothing should be broken, you will simply be re-directed to the original content under its new name. It will feel seamless to you and you will not have to do anything other than carry on using the site. The only difference is that when you tell anyone about the forum you now just need to remembe
Chief Bakes

Delinquents & Domestics - WIDOD 1

Rank: Special Sgt Length of Service: 3yrs  Planned Hours: 1400-2300 (Late Turn) Type of Shift: Response   1230: Arrive at the station early as have a fair amount of admin to do for my team and upcoming meetings/training days etc. Manage to locate the infamous station fork and have a bit of lunch as of course, no guarantee I'll be eating later. After all that, go and kit up & as there's a few other SCs on the same shift, go to the skippers office to let the late turn Sgt know we're out t
HPE
  • HPE

Day 1

Rank: Special Shift: Response The previous week I collected most my operation uniform, minus my CS and radio from the central store at the forces HQ. I had taken it home opened it all and possibly tried it all on my bedroom. I looked like a police officer but I didn’t feel like one! Finally after what seemed like the longest week ever I was driving to the station for the first time, I drove through the metal gates and parked. I got all the gear id been given and attempted to carry it a
ForceHQ

Coached Patrol

Shift: Saturday Coached Patrol Rank: Special Constable Length of Service: 3 years Planned duty: 1400-0200 Unfortunately I haven't bothered trying to estimate timings as it was such a busy shift we were here there and everywhere! Having recently got my driving ticket I like running coached patrol shifts for newer officers to help them achieve evidence for their PACs and SOROC (read SOLAP for anyone who isn't Met). I arrived before the start of the shift to get ready and book on and saw the t
Posh
  • Posh

Aid to Westminster

Shift: Friday Night Time Economy Rank: Special Constable Length of Service: 3 years Planned duty: 1900-0300 Due to lots of aid across boroughs in the MPS I found myself in Westminster on a recent Friday, where 125 Specials were deployed to police the night time economy. Unfortunately a slightly shirt shift as I only booked on last minute and had to be up early the following day. 1900 - Arrive at local nick, pick up a car and head into central picking up a mate I'd be working with that night
Posh
  • Posh

Second shift, First arrest!

Hi guys, so here is a write up from my second shift that I have recently had and thought I would share with you all as it was quite an eventful one!   Rank: Special Constable Length of Service: Second shift Planned duty: 1500HRS - 2300HRS   All times are estimates as PNB is not to hand.   1500HRS: Arrive at station…forget the code for the changing room…OOPS! pop down to the response room and see the person who I am crewed with in there so have a quick word and get told the combination so
Tempo
  • Tempo

New Moderator - R5!

Folks I would like to welcome to the Moderation Team @R5! 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 R5! a very warm welcome and ensure that the same level of respect etc is shown towards R5! as you do the rest of the team.  Best Wishes Chief Bakes
Chief Bakes

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