Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2006 | 32 Comments »
Allegedly, after a recent Major Incident planning exercise, a Home Office talib expressed some concern about police use of the titles “Evacuation Centre” and “Casualty Clearing Centre”. The Government feel that in the event of a major incident involving significant loss of life, use of the terms “Evacuation” and “Casualty Clearing” will have a negative [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2006 | 27 Comments »
The vacant space between the ears of those who espouse political correctness in Ruralshire Constabulary has again been temporarily filled. The latest heresy is “inappropriate decoration likely to offend (insert the name of any group who may be insulted)”. The clue here is the word “likely”. This means no one has actually been offended.
A Diktat [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2006 | 120 Comments »
I feel physically sick. I arrived at the nick this morning having only slept between 10.00pm and 2.00 am. I gave up at about 4.30 am, kitted myself up and drove over. The Night Duty Skipper and I are old friends; he drove me up onto the ridge which overlooks the town and we put [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2006 | 19 Comments »
“Leadership is not a popularity contest”, ever heard that from an unpopular leader? In my view, “Leadership is not ONLY a popularity contest” is more accurate.
In F Division my husband relies on goodwill more and more these days to get the job done. It helps to be popular. I used to measure his success [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 26, 2006 | 14 Comments »
A few years ago we were told not to fill up the police vehicles from a certain type of petrol station. This was because the fuel was a few pence more expensive than the other brands. We were given a list of alternative petrol stations to use. The problem was that all of these were [...]
