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Mice have feelings too!

October 25, 2006 by inspectorgadget

Here in Ruralshire Constabulary, we use four established CENTREX tactics to stifle any meaningful debate, especially when the subject matter may be uncomfortable, even if it is true. Here are the tactics:
1. Link your views to “change”, and therefore label anyone who does not agree as “resistant to change”. This is almost as bad as being called a racist in today’s police service. (”Openness to Change” is a competency we are all assessed on each year.)
2. Discredit the individual making the argument, rather than the argument itself. For this, you can use any of the “isms”. Claim that their view is linked to an “ism”.
3. Disguise the language describing your view so nobody can understand what you mean. E.g. “Neighbourhood Performance Management Tasking Group”.
4. If the debate is about a group or individual, give them “victim status”, thereby placing them beyond criticism, entrenching their views and absolving them of responsibility for their actions. (This does not apply to real victims of course.)
There is a final emergency tactic. Agree with the sense you are hearing, promise to adopt it……………. and then don’t…………….and then say you have………..and then use tactics 1 to 4 against anyone who complains. I call this “doing a Hazel Blears”.

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19 Responses to “Mice have feelings too!”

on October 25, 2006 at 1:43 pm1 justacop

I really liked this one, you ought to get a job as a police minister, like Mr McNutty, you have grasped the labout concepts of ’spin’ very quickly.
on October 25, 2006 at 2:04 pm2 Debbie Gadget

On the domestic front, I call the “final emergency tactic”…. doing an Inspector Gadget! Reading this I can so now see why the old man is like he is at home!
Debbie G xx
on October 25, 2006 at 2:32 pm3 alicethearchitect

Sounds like some of the more vociferous bods at the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects). Debate there is often stifled by labelling someone with an ism or and ist. I’m just waiting for the new President to start his pet ism. At the moment he talks about ‘inclusiveness’. Whatever the hell that means. I think it means ‘included as long as you are not labelled as an ‘ist’ by some of the screeching RIBA members hoping to become president in the next few years’. Otherwise sit down and shut up.

Alice
on October 25, 2006 at 4:31 pm4 pcsouthwest

I don’t think we could possibly be resistant to change in this job. The operational wheel is re-invented on a daily basis and we are almost expecting some kind of policy change or regulation to appear every so often.
I like number 3 best of all, there is always some new kind of group or name for some new initiative that no-one truly understands.
on October 25, 2006 at 6:32 pm5 Disgruntled

Hmm… I remember the last time I spoke to my divisional commander I decided to insert a few ‘isms’ into the conversation. Their face was a picture and as I had already said a few buzz words they couldn’t think of anything to say so just looked away and sipped their tea.

The difference between the CI and me though is that I KNEW I was talking bullshit as opposed to them believing it.
on October 25, 2006 at 6:50 pm6 Library_rat

I work at a large univeristy library and we use this tatic every day. I want more apple computers, therfore I give vicitim status to all mac users, we must adapt to them. Bang more apple computers.

It’s evil but I have to play their game.
on October 25, 2006 at 9:50 pm7 Gargoyle

Y’ know, We not only have the same political grooving going on in our Police force, but we have a megaversion of it in our Government. Not only will you discredit your opposition, rather than their views, you will call them cowards! I have had enough of working for this pupet master, I’m off! If anyone is looking for me, I’ll be underground earning obscene amounts of dirty money!
on October 26, 2006 at 7:13 am8 Vicola

Hazel Blears is a poisonous little twerp who hopefully, now that Blair has announced he will be going, will scuttle back under her rock like the cockroach she is. I had the misfortune to do some work for her once and I can say with all honesty that she IS as bad as she comes across.
on October 26, 2006 at 1:48 pm9 A. McShane.

Heres a radical concept for everyone in the Yoghurt Weaving Departments:

“IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT.”
on October 26, 2006 at 10:00 pm10 psychiatric nurse

Brilliant analysis, Inspector.
This is an inevitable consequence of having a huge surfeit of pointless bureaucrats. If they have nothing in their in trays they are vulnerable to the question “what exactly do you do for a living”?. They have no option, they have to change something. Anything. It won`t stop until the bureaucrats are sacked. Perhaps the money saved could re - invested in front line policing. My apologies, there was no need for logic, was there ?.
on October 28, 2006 at 3:06 pm11 The Sleepy Policeman

Regarding point 3… surely if people can understand what you’re talking about you can get be held to whaty you’re saying.

Its like that bit in the movie “Snatch” - if you can’t understand what they’re saying, they can basically get away with anything they like….
on October 28, 2006 at 11:23 pm12 PC Bitseach

As an LGBT Liaison Officer, I feel the need to point out that the odd -obia these days is almost as effective as an -ism. DO try to keep up with the times guv! LOL!

[management will HATE this post - it's SO true!!]
on October 29, 2006 at 2:52 pm13 rodin

Bit off topic, but it illustrates the chaos in which we live and work:

With everything that’s going on, spiralling debt, reduction in police numbers (real police that is, there’ll be an increase in the ‘new, new’police of cours), what is this all about?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6095260.stm

I thought we had a plethora of public order, criminal justice, serious and organised crime Acts to cover all of these?

With a competent prosecuting authority, and a government who really wanted law enforcement, we wouldnt have this prime example of a Sunday (news) Story. Complete drivel.
on October 29, 2006 at 3:29 pm14 The Sleepy Policeman

The flag-burning question is an interesting one.

The Americans hold flag-burning to be an issue of freedom of speech protected under the First Amendment.

Wouldn’t we have issues with that in the Human Rights Act?
on October 29, 2006 at 5:16 pm15 Gary

I always thought that change in the police service was used by senior ranks to show when applying for the next rung up the ladder that they had ‘managed’ something pointless. I can think of numerous examples such as moving everyone lock stock and barrel to another police station 3 miles away at a cost that must have equalled a few PC’s wages to changing policing styles that have previously been tried and shown to fail. Very little really changes
on November 1, 2006 at 5:53 pm16 Petronius Arbiter

For why this is happening see the excellent explanation of Cultural Marxism on ConservativeHome by Dr Simon Newman:

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2006/10/dr_simon_newman.html

The bastards are destroying our society, and using our own Public Institutions to do the dirtywork without most of us realising that what is happening is NO accident!
on November 4, 2006 at 12:37 am17 mr.grumpy

Hi,

That was absolutely spot on. I experienced similar tactics as a union rep when I used to work for Royal Mail.
on November 17, 2006 at 12:48 pm18 jerym

Would`nt it be wonderful if everyone could send this type of crap back to the originator marked “translation required”
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