Police HQ, Greedy Corporate Aspirations,

Too many Head Quarters are growing, like mushrooms in an early morning horse field . Ours, (bless ‘em), fills its car parks before 8 in the morning, BMWs, Mercedes, Porches, Hi-end ford pickups. The ‘common’ car park, used by the run of the mill civilians fills quickly, with its Bangers to Bentleys. The Priority parking area (Closer to HQ) fills with more high end vehicles than any car showroom in the area, and a good percentage belong to people in IT, HR, Road Policing, Assassins (sorry, firearms), Business Planning and Corporate Services. The ‘Essential Staff’ car park, attracts the heads of departments, several marked police vehicles used by uniformed heads but rarely taken out, a whole row of covert vehicles with big white stickers on the windscreen stating ‘COVERT VEHICLE, Do Not Use’!

Before you get pissy at me, I am not complaining about all the HQ staff having a nice earner to be able to buy the best motors, I am using the above as an indicator of the greed value of the HQ leeches, to milk the system for all it can get, hundreds of jobs for the boys, you know, been a mediocre copper for 20 plus years, now retires, full pension and on Monday comes back as a civvie in a post that never existed before, but now on a good pension and a Senior Staff Pay Rate. Said ex-copper can still hang out with his mates in the Restaurant snurdling coffee and having such a good time.

Head Quarters thinking they are a Corporate Entity, lapping up the Pounds, Shillings and Pence in their greedy desperate bid to earn more by doing less. This is where the money goes, the money that could be funding more officers on the front line. The money that could be putting more resources on nights so there are less single crewed cars looking after an entire city, missing their refs and getting it in the neck when they failed to spot a huddie skulking in a bush who later went on to burgle Mrs smith and stomp on the poor ladies cat in the process.

HQ is too big, it’s too expensive and ours has lost its way. Ours thinks it is an entire corporate entity, with corporate managers, decision makers, problem brokers, the thinking centre with respect for the people, communication enablers, Community Resource Centres of Excellence, Enhanced Area Management Teams and so on and so forth...

I wish we had a CC with his own head on his shoulders instead of one who thinks he is an important public dignitary, always on the television bleating on about the flavour of the day, telling us how good the last place was he worked at and spending most of his time at the Bramshill Goon Show, (No Point In Asking)

VS

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Headdress war of words. Tin Hat Brigade.

No Helmet, No Training, Q.E.D.

If you cannot wear the safety equipment, provided by the Force to protect you while undergoing riot training, firearms training or other confrontational training, then you should not be asking to be given the role.

It may feel good that you are being given equal rights along others; it may be that you can gain credit for being a highly paid police firearms user. But to gain equal rights, you have to demonstrate equal opportunity and when some colleagues are able to wear the safety equipment, and you choose not to, then you should not get the training.

You are self excluding and that has nothing to do with equal rights. It has everything to do with making your colleagues more vulnerable. If you get killed or injured because you refused to wear a bullet proof helmet or chest protector, then you are placing an increased burden on your colleagues around you and one of them could get killed or injured looking after you.

I understand the need for some to act within the scope of their Faith, however, when that Faith requirement impacts upon the safety of colleagues and members of the public, your employer should do whatever they can to protect those whom would be endangered by your actions.

There are anti-ballistic headdress options, sadly, the manufacturers charge an exorbitant price and demand a very high purchase rate over a budget period. For the numbers taking up the option, some forces simply cannot justify the cost of entering into the purchase. Some headdress options, acceptable to some, are not acceptable to others, so the spending costs are extreme and simply not cost effective.




Take for instance two recent headlines:
1) The Indian Army do not have bullet proof turbans
2) Police Force blows £100,000 on failed search to find a helmet to cover a Sikh officer’s turban.

One thinks it odd, some people will happily wear a motorcycle crash helmet, but not a riot helmet.

Even more odd when evidence exists of a Sikh military metal headdress!

Police Officer, £50,000 pay, complains about income.

Spare a copper, guv!

I read the blogs today, and read how a Police Officer is complaining about the volume of overtime they have to work, taking home only £50,000 to £90,000 a year. These are cops that have the maximum increments and have failed to rise above the rank of Sergeant in ten years policing. Police officers with extraordinary knowledge in many cases, seen by their colleagues to be ,’The Right Stuff’, with an exceptional knowledge of crime, criminals, the justice system and how to milk the public purse, a purse already stretched to the limit funding massive unemployment, for maximum benefit.

The author of the blog, (http://pcbloggs. blogspot. com) blames predictable events and shows, shoplifters, the courts system and the pace of work police officers can find themselves subject to. The author goes on to suggest that managers and supervisors are unable to simply reallocate officers to cover shortfall. If senior officers are unable to complete minor office staff and management anomalies, it begs wonder if officers are promoted through the ranks too easily, leaving others to flounder in the promotional system, to systematically milk it for all they can get.

Officers are not poorly paid by any stretch of the imagination, when one considers they are have a job for 30 years or more if they keep their noses clean, with little likelihood of losing their job simply because there is a downturn in jobs as the recession bites. You never hear of police officers being laid off as there is no demand for them. Pop along to your local Police HQ and look at the high end cars and trucks in their car park, ours actually has porches, big BMW’s, and other high value marques. (Normally such cars are out of reach to most people in times of a recession, but officers earn interesting sums and can easily afford the better cars)

There is a simple solution.

1) Stop the second jobbers in toto. This would ensure all officers are bright eyed and bushy tailed after their 16 hours off duty.
2) Compensate all police officers by introducing a fixed Salary.
3) Reduce the number of officers occupying roles that require no use of their warrant or charge.
4) Re-employ uniformed officers in the roles that depend upon the officer having police powers (put them back at the ‘sharp end’).
5) Employ much lower paid civilians in the tasks previously done by the police that had been miss-employed at a cost to the public purse.

The armed forces do not get 'overtime', why should the Police?

Easy peasy solution, but watch and listen while the whiners in blue find a million faults with the simple logic that provides an affordable, realistic intelligent solution.

VS

Tired of listening to MP's complain.

I don’t want to hear leading political figures apologising for members of their cabinet. Technically, the members who have made claims for products and services that have been deemed to be in the spirit of expenses listed in the Green Book, but who now appear to have been taking the Great British Public for a ride, should be dismissed and handed over to the Police and the VAT Authorities.

Where we have quite happily made a rule that enabled the free flow of public money into pockets owned by MP’s, we should now create the complimentary role of removing those financial abusers, removing the public owned money from them, and then placing them in a position that prohibits the person from attending any meeting upon the behalf of the poor innocent voters in the constituency that sadly elected them in the first place.

You cannot sack an MP, but you can ensure that a person, who has acted much like a highwayman, is unable to resume office, and that needs to be done now.
It is a perfect moment for a new leader to shut parliament and call an immediate election, with every sponging MP being barred from attending for life. Mr Cameron seems to be the only one who has not siphoned funds from the system, let him be the one to select a safe house to see us through the General Election. I have no doubt the Ghurkhas would be given the rights and freedoms we have promised, without fuss or demerit.

In-car computer maps to speed limit!

From the Mail-OnLine.

A sophisticated in-car computer could soon make it impossible for motorists to speed.

The system detects the speed limit and automatically slows the car if it is being driven too quickly.

It pinpoints a vehicle's exact location via satellite and accesses a database of every road's speed limit to determine how fast the vehicle should be travelling.

The Intelligent Speed Adaption system will be unveiled today as part of the largest-ever pilot of its kind.

It is seen as a blueprint for a nationwide scheme which could add around £500 to the cost of a car.

But critics last night claimed that it was further evidence of state interference.

They say it undermines motorists' freedom and claim it could hinder, rather than aid, road safety.

Comment: probably from the same stable as Trident, TSR II, Free Nuclear Electricity, The National Health Computer System, joined up police IT equipment and Government Sanctioned Expenses Allowance.

We don't expect our Police to kill innocent people, repeatedly.

It appears, that unless you ‘toe the party line’, and agree with those authors who believe they are the word almighty, you are considered rubbish, stupid, infantile and aggressive, abusive and illiterate.

We are all entitled tour own opinion. I have every right to get upset when I see Police Officers behaving like idiots. I am allowed to get pissy when I see an Officer kill another officer in order to hide something that the first officer has done wrong. I am allowed by law to get angry when a police officer abuses their powers to drive at breakneck speeds with no flashing lights or sirens and kills a young innocent teenager girl.

We pay enough to dress our police, to train them, to educate them, to support them while they are sick or off duty without having them dictate to us that they have absolute right of authority as no one else could possibly know the law as well as they do.

We do not expect our senior police officers to sanction raids on innocent civilians simply because they come from the wrong ethnic side of the city.
We do not expect our officers to use their powers to kill civilians and then claim that they thought the dead victim might have had a gun.

We do not pay our police officers to swan through a hit and miss career and then offer excuses when they kill one of their own in a shooting accident in a warehouse.
We do not spend a fortune on police officers so that they can abuse their privileges and decide to stop being a senior police officer because the going has got tough and the press are taking an interest.

We do not countenance our police officers to claim their very good pay and then whinge and moan on the internet at how hard their job is or how tough it is for them. A phrase comes to mind, “If its too hot in the kitchen...”

VS