General Policing Discussions

Having seen them on a no. of occasions now, I wonder if any LE officer would get away with bullying hectoring style used by MPs on the Select Committees. Yes on occasions it's interesting watching very powerful people being questioned but I still think that the way that many of the MPs behave is more like frustrated 1970s cops than anything else - one of those interviewing the former CC of SYP today came up with an utter DM reader piece of rubbish that if the CC hadn't been so busy persecuting motorists or words ghost effect he would have had time to found out about the child abuse in his force area. When the former CC said that he took offence set that then Keith Vaz tol…

Following a recent news story about police shooting an armed suspect dead I got to thinking... It it time that the ARV role, which could and does require police officers to take another person's life, be handed to the military. Comparing the two, I don't think anyone joined the police to kill yet unfortunately that's in some military units' job description.

I can't quite believe that this isn't something that PS.com has jumped all over already, but I didn't find a thread on it. Following the recent Bullshire lampooning of the leather PVC jackets worn by the NCA I wanted to see them for myself, and found a number of images like this one: Leaving aside the obvious naffness of the FBI-style coats, I was pretty surprised to see these NCA staff wearing "Police" caps. I know there were previously issues with SOCA shouting "Armed police" during raids, although it seems a pretty sensible precaution to me. However, what's the deal with with the hybrid police/NCA uniform? Since NCA staff are not police officers, are there even …

I'm currently a Level 1 at MerPol and I'm only able to work with Neighbourhood until I'm Level 2 then I can go out on attachments to Patrol, etc or go out with another Level 2. Once I get Level 3 I'm able to go out on Independent Patrol. It's most likely going to be the same for Level 3, but is it any different in other forces? When I first attested my Neighbourhood Sgt tried to get me on Patrol as thought it would be the best way for me to learn the job but it got blocked via the SC CoC. I'm sorry if this has been brought up previously. I couldn't find anything when I did a search using Tapatalk.

I understand why you moderate but we are trying to return an item to an officer. If anyone knows the force please PM me.

Can you let me know if your force starts it's sc collar number with a 9 and uses bars for ranks? A colleague is trying to return a found item. Cheers

Hi people, Just want to gather all your thoughts and views on this terrorist cell and what dangers they post to us here in the UK. We've all read in the news about the awful murder of those two American (god rest their souls) chaps, but i was just wondering if you think that they will continue their terrorism over here, or is it another group that pop up and then fizzle out? Is it a smoke screen for al-qaeda as they have been quiet in a while?

Hi everyone I start my training to become a special next sunday 14th :new_yummy: I need to go to gate D on aerodrome road anyone have any ideas where that is ? is it the main gate there around half way up as its all building site gates on the actually training site and cant find a map anywhere oh and its at Hendon lol forgot that part lol! thanks much dougie

Hello folks I hesitate somewhat before posting this as it's a little painful/embarrassing so bear with me, and please excuse the "me me me" nature of it. I'd like to get people's thoughts on how suitable the police is for someone who is, frankly, chronically disorganised, hugely lazy and needs to be micromanaged or closely supervised - relative to other careers. A little background - I'm in my early 30s and after falling to pieces during my degree 10 years ago I've coasted along in a few professional jobs. I can talk a good talk but frankly can't walk the walk and am utterly hopeless in a situation where I'm given a medium- or long-term project to get on with unsupervi…

Was on duty today, neighborhood policing instead of my normal response. For some reason I feel that I just didn't perform well enough on duty today - didn't help that the special I was crewed with wasn't any help at all ha! I now feel annoyed and disappointed, and I'm now questioning myself if I still want to do this job full time - something I have wanted for a long time. Nothing specifically happened, I just feel I could have done better somehow. Ohh well, tomorrow is a new day! Do you ever feel this way about specialing?

So somewhat of a taboo subject but..... I arrested two IC3 males in seperate incidents on Friday night. I was courteous and professional with both of them and had absolutely no option but to arrest. I used to live In a country where 70% of the population are black and although I am white myself I am about as far from a racist as it is possible to be. Yet both accused me of making racially motivated arrests and said I would not arrest a white person in the same circumstances. Complete nonsense, but have other people experienced this? I personally found begin called a racist deeply offensive.

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As of now no longer a public servant, however a collector of memorabilia for 25 years I just wonder if anyone can tell me if pr-24xts was issued by the met. I own one and the issue instructions have the Cromwell badge on the front cover. The baypn is boxed. Was this met trial issued. Any help much appreciated.

Just wondering if anyone out there is doing it. Also are they integrating specials into the event or are the SC's just going to be back filling for the estimated 10,000 cops that are going to descend on Newport?

Good news!