General Policing Discussions

In the light of one force possibly trialling the testing of drugs in nightclubs for 'safer' consumption it has got me wondering: should we begin to make illegal drugs legal? I have dealt with people for possessing drugs and still consider it a crime to have illegal drugs as this is written in statute but should the laws be changed? Some of the reasons for changing the laws is that the government could make millions from doing it and also is the'safe' use of conventional illegal drugs actually worse in all cases than excessive use of alcohol? 100% not pro drugs at all but would rather hear the opinions of several people on this! -

A very general and open question, but very relevant to policing; how do you "switch off" after work? I have in the past struggled with this, but as time has gone on and certain issues have sorted themselves out this has become less of an issue for me. Curious to see how others deal with this, especially after a busy, demanding and traumatic tour of duty. Hoping the answers may help others also

Hi Everyone, Wondering if you can help me, its quite a specific question to be honest. I applied for both a Regular and Specials role for Lancs Constabulary at the tale end of last year, and I have a specials assessment this week at Lancs HQ Hutton. My problem is that, despite being pretty healthy & 24 Years of age, I managed to somehow pick up guillain-barré syndrome early December, and didn't realise till the tail end of December where I had almost full paralysis of both of my arms. I didn't click onto it as a major problem at first as I thought it was a gym injury. Anyway, Long story short, I received 5 days of intensive treatment (Over new year) …

Good evening, i recently went to a call where the Trim flag was put on the CAD. i'm guessing a few people on here would have gone through the Trim process and i was looking for some info on it. Sent from my iPhone using Police Community

Long shot and I'm guessing it's a no due to the nature of it all.. Has anybody ever moved to or from the intelligence services into or from police? Any advice for someone that might want to do the same? Obviously not expecting much of a reply as it's not something you shout about but worth an ask. Cheers.

GMP Pensions and pay are paid through Kier, who provide the payment services. Usually paid on the 1st of the month. If that falls on a Saturday or Sunday then the payment notification is made on the Friday before. For some unknown reason the present payment due on the 1st January has not been made. No I have not died yet. On ringing Kier the message that you get is "Blue zone not available" I was just wondering if any others paid through Kier were having the same problem? I tried ringing the GMP, a thing I have not done since retirement and there is no telephone number available. In the telephone directories Cheshire are listed, no problem but GMP are not. Th…

Apologies if this has already been posted, but there's a survey for serving officers regarding Taser: http://polfed.org/newsroom/3882.aspx Closes 20th January

I start my training as a special next week which is incredibly exciting HOWEVER, I've never been very good at fighting! All throughout school I avoided fights and scuffles etc like the plague, a few months ago my girlfriend and I got assaulted and I ended up being punched a fair number of times by a 6'4" brick out house... I'm worried that when I'm involved in attempting to restrain a violent suspect I will be more of a hinderence to my colleagues than an actual benefit! I have never been involved in any boxing, martial arts or similar. Big question is will the training teach me what to do to a competent level or do I need to look at some extra classes? …

Firstly, apologies in advance if there is already a thread on this. I had a good search but couldn't find anything besides the odd post here and there. I'm currently on a specials intake and have been assigned to a station not too far from me. I got in touch with one of the specials there (put in contact by another cop), to ask a few of the usual questions about the station, area, shift patterns etc. The guy was really helpful, offered to give me a tour and have a chat over a coffee whenever. The station is NPT only. For this reason us guys who will be on NPT have been getting a bit of a bashing from others on my intake, who have been assigned to stations where they wil…

http://www.npcc.police.uk/FreedomofInformation/Reportsreviewsandresponsestoconsultations.aspx I don't know if anyone has heard of this plan from npcc or Acpo as they were known. It discusses possible new pay structure for officers and ideas for the police roles, including an advanced practitioner role. . One of the ideas appears to be, that along with annual assessment tied to incremental pay rises, officers will only reach the top level if they become advanced practitioners, with extra skills and whatnot. There is also a diagram which demonstrates the idea of positive churn. That strange combination of words essentially means they envisage…