General Policing Discussions

A petition to routinely issue all warranted Police Officers (including Special Constables) with taser. http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/70388

Afternoon all, I note on many programmes PCs charge suspects themselves, however on my Borough the skippers do it - is there any specific legislation or policy which dictates who can or should charge? The reason I ask is that I've been working on a big job for over 6 months and have done it start to finish so would love to be the one who informs the suspects of what case they'll be answering to the Crown!

Just out of interest, how many operational hours do you do? (Operational; as in, uniformed and on duty - not training etc.) Personally I feel that the usual 16 hour minimum is too low. What do people think?

Basically the link below states a case where magistrates didn't convict a motorise of speeding because although the s172 form was completed with the name of the driver, it was not signed and so the magistrates found it inadmissible. There is no requirement for the registered keeper to sign the form. What does everyone think about this? I suppose this would be applicable for all s172 requests? http://governmentauctionsuk.com/auction-guide-details/speed-camera-loophole-exposed/1551?guide_type=motoring

I'm an ex reg Met officer with 11 years service. I am in the process of signing up as a Special in a County force. Whilst undergoing the fitness test and DNA/biometrics, a number of specials were cutting about with medal ribbons on their shirts. This was never a policy in the Met as ribbons were only worn on our tunics. Is this a Specials/County thing? Or is it just people showing off?

I am due to start training as a dispatcher soon, and I would love to hear some stories where a dispatcher could have done his job better. How could I aim to become a relied upon Dispatcher, to assist you guys on the ground? Thanks :-)

All, If you rebail someone to a certain date and time does it require authority to change the time from say 3pm until 4:30pm? thus allowing the OIC to be flexible on the amendment of times?

http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-commons-debates/read/unknown/174/ Having 136 powers in dwellings certainly would be helpful from my experience but there still aren't the NHS resources on the backend. On another note, the police parliamentary scheme seems like a pretty good idea.

Hi all Odd question, but anyone able to point me at any specific guidance relating to being a special and being pregnant? I.e. any restrictions etc other than being placed on light duties... Basically I'm trying to see if Specials are treated any differently to regular officers who are pregnant... Thanks!

Any of our Met colleagues know which courses you can transfer with eg. Class 3 Standard Response Driving Public Order Level 2 MOE Field Impairment Testing Speed gun training Field drugs testing Sexual Offences Liaision Officer Ta in advance

Because I like war stories and because it's all gone wrong when you've pressed your orange button I thought I'd start a thread about emergency button activations. That said, I know it is thankfully rare to do so: I've been a PC for nearly 5 years (and a special before that for 7 months) and I have only pressed mine 3 times. Tell us about your emer activations! Here are mine: 1.) I was called to a flat where someone had said that they were being held hostage and beaten up. I responded with my colleague in the area car. Another unit had turned up before us and were already forcing entry to the premises. The stairwell to the block of flats was glass and we could clearly se…

Hi. I am wondering if anyone can offer some advise. I have been succesfully shortlisted for the West Yorks specials and have the assesment centre at the end of October. Personal circumstances in terms of an ongoing move into a new build house and have today been given a completion date of the week of assesment. I enquired today with HR to see if i could attend the next set of assesment days as recruitment is still open. They said they dont know of planned future assesment days and if i would like to withdraw my application. I said no initially, but does anyone know if i did withdraw my app at this stage, could i resubmit my app straight away with a view to being s…

Hi, I'm just hoping there may be an SC who works for BTP in the North west, who can give me some advise? I'm an SC thinking of transferring.... thanks