General Policing Discussions

Interesting change to the law on dishonesty in that the Ghosh test that all serving officers have ever known is ‘no longer good for law’ and has been replaced by Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd 2017. No subjective test on the defendant anymore so warped standards are out.

I’m a special and done my first vehicle search the other day. we ended up arresting someone for possession of cannabis but he was NFA’d. I’m wondering if there was another way I could have dealt with it. basically I was walking down a street where a car was parked up. Upon seeing me and my colleague 3 men ran from the car, we had a short foot chase but lost them. We went back and searched the car as it had been left open and found a small snap bag of cannabis in the glove box. about 5 minutes later a man returned and said he had been driving the car and asked what was going on. i explained I’d found cannabis in the car and had seen 3 men …

I was scene guard at an incident recently on a Saturday night. A member of the public decided to deliberately duck under and cross our tape barrier as a lark with his mates. Afterwards, I’ve been trying to think of the best legislation I could have used, had I chosen to arrest rather than just have strong words of advice. Section 19 PACE and then Section 117 gives me power to enforce the cordon, which I used. I could have used Section 5 POA but in this case, I don’t think it would have been appropriate as there was nothing obusive or offensive. It might for other situations. D&D might also be used on other occasions in a similar vein. Possibly Pervertin…

Are there any tutor constables on here? I'm soon to be starting my tutor phase and am curious to get the thoughts of any tutor constables amongst the membership on here. I'm aware of the basics like listen to what they say, do what they say, make the tea, volunteer for anything and everything. But I'm interested to hear what sort of mistakes student officers make (not the uk cop humor type mistakes, but serious/sensible answers), what can i be doing now in these last few weeks to make me less of a liability to my tutor? Anyone got any general tips for someone about to set out on their tutor phase? I'v heard stories from both tutors and students about not g…

Code G states one of the necessities for arrest is - Prevent offence against public decency. Public decency makes me think automatically of things like exposure and indecency. Am i barking up the wrong tree? I'm wondering if it could be a useful necessity for Public Order offences? Can anyone give any examples of offences where it might be necessary to arrest to prevent an offence against public decency? I'm trying to use P+E as little possible now and when another necessity exists, i will use that.

Hi, I am starting my police officer training in January 2017 and was wondering if anyone could tell me what the shift pattern will be once i finish. Thanks. Sent from my iPhone using Police Community

Hi everyone, Not sure if anyone remembers me - I used to post on Police Specials before it was run into the ground - thought I'd come on here out of nostalgia. I was talking to a former ACC of a Southern Force a few weeks ago about Specials getting Taser and even Glocks. It reminded me of a topic I made years ago about specials getting Taser and the forum users found it hilarious. Was wondering what thoughts are now? Is it such a silly idea? I think the just of my post was the 'elite' are SAS standard and anyone could be trained up to be AFO if required. Sidearm nothing on the continent etc., they all have to have one. Have people's vie…

This isn't really to do with the new change in divisions in London, but sort of the same post code. This may be before some people's time so I'll give an example. There'd be divisions and sub-divisions. It was known as 'AREA Policing'. Within the Metropolitan Police there was 67 'areas'. Like the Bill every area would have a Chief Super, so in one borough there could be 3/4 Chief Supers policing their own area etc. Somewhere such as Manchester you'd have within the City of, Hulm/Moss Side, City Centre, Gorton, Whalley Range, Levenshulme etc., within Salford you'd have Salford, Eccles, Swinton/Pendlebury, Walkden and so on. The City Centre had 2 stations,…

http://www.gmp.police.uk/live/nhoodv3.nsf/TriageWebsitePages/CCDDAC7288B085B98025829600552A0B?OpenDocument Fair play to him.

My Mrs (non police) regularly writes statements for the police (medical statements) My Mrs was involved in a incident at her work together with other staff members, one of whom was headbutted. When she came home and told me what had happened she told me the lad had knocked his urine over her deliberately whilst kicking off. I told he was had happened to her was also assault. She tells me the attending officers (from a neighbouring force) didn't explain that. She then realised she should make a complaint. From the info I had been told I rang the neighbouring force control room and was put through to one of the officers who attended. I explained I was in the j…