General Policing Discussions

Hi all Since November I have been training to be a Special Constable and I am pleased to say that I will be attesting in a couple of weeks. Training has been a fantastic experience; I have made some great new friends and learnt some new skills. I am really looking forward to getting out there. I think the favourite part for me was getting my uniform, that made it all feel very real! Obviously now that the coronavirus crisis is upon us, police forces are asking specials to step up and help at this time of need. My employer is part of the Employer Supported Policing scheme, where they let us have a certain number of days off a year to go and work with the police, …

Do forces outside London have high performance 'Area' or 'RT' cars? The Met have 3 and 5 series BMW estates and other vehicles with bigger engines. These are driven by borough officers not traffic. Most local cars I see are Peugeot. Never seen a high powered response car?

There are many different police forces, officers, police staff, Council Officers, wardens, marshals, hospital security, prison officers, highway officers, inspectors, court officers, security officers, animal control etc. Is it time for the UK to adapt more to the needs of 21st Century public safety and have more police forces/‘police officers’ ... as in swear in court officers to be able to arrest escaping prisoners and violent persons, swear in hospital officers - to become a regional or national hospital Force to better safeguard people. Or a Mental Health police service, dealing with just those cases (and security at MH hospitals) It could be (dare I say …

All, in the current climate, do you think there should be more of a National and regional effort at organised Civil Defence and engagement? The Civil Defence Corps was disbanded in the sixties, but was to deal with nuclear warfare, civil unrest, pandemics, war, strikes, floods etc. Seeing as the government are now calling for hundreds of thousands of volunteers and ex medics, pondering about ex police etc, would it not be a good idea to have a proper emergency management/civil defence service to supplement regular services (which are clearly under strain at normal times), that are already organised and ready? Popular in Isle of Man, Ireland, US etc. Additionall…

All, Does anyone have any experience of British police serving overseas: -UN -British Overseas Territories -Commonwealth / ex-empire nations -International security/rescue groups (e.g. Afghanistan) It seems to generally be for law and order support (Hurricane Irma in Caribbean) or professional support for investigations or enhancing certain units (mostly BOT) or training (UN). What type of people generally get posted, I assume it's mostly volunteers? A long shot, but have any Specials been involved in such? Thanks fbo

Hello All, Thought i start a new topic Do we have any CSAS Members here ? if so what Authority/Council/Security do you work for ? Powers you have ?

Would each member of a team for an external company doing web IT work on behalf of a Police force be vetted. Specifically would the employee for the external company be vetted on mental health issues, if they had a clean DBS check, doing IT work for a police force.

Anyone here a user of the Police Mutual Sectionshifts website? I've been trying to get on it recently but not having any luck. Seems to indicate it might be now blocked by firewall or virus guard software.

Hi all, hope everyone is safe and well during this time. I had applied to GMP as a special constable and had passed all of the assessments. Interview, situational judgement test, written exercise, fitness and medical. I was given an offer and a start date. Unfortunately I had moved to London by the time my start date was given as I had waited such a long time for a start. When I moved to London I attended an open day for the Met to ask a few questions regarding applications and if I would need to do everything from the start, assessments etc. I was told that because the specials assessment is the same across all UK forces, I would only have to do the medical an…

Now that most shops are closed what do you think the low hanging fruit shop lifters are doing for their drug money nowadays?