There Is A God
June 26, 2007 by inspectorgadget
There is a God, and he/she is clearly against any further Police reform.
You can see this is true because Hazel Blears was NOT elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. In fact, Blears came last and was binned at the primary stage.
This means she is unlikely to be Deputy Prime Minister. But stranger things have happened.
Fact: One of these women represents a dangerous threat to the traditional office of Constable. The other is a PCSO.
A Grammar School educated Solicitor; Ms Blears was Chair of the Labour Party, who are against selective schools. She was also largely responsible for bringing us the odious, cynical and transparent pack of lies that is The Sharp End.
For the uninitiated, this is a propaganda trade magazine, produced free of charge by officers too desperate for promotion or too stupid to see that they are being used as a cynical front.
Now that Hazel has clearly lost the confidence of her colleagues and is no longer police minister or Chair of the party; is any one going to apologise for all the damage she did and change it all back?
Now that would be a miracle.
Call me cynical, but I suspect the person who comes along after her, will probably commission a few reports, hold a few focus groups, have loads of photo-opportunities and then procede to screw things up even more.
There’s a word I remember from a course I did. BOHICA, it seems apt.
Hazel Beers …would you ? ,might stop her talking for a bit
You know, I’ve never seen anyone reading the sharp end at my nick. It seems it’s being collectively snubbed.
How can you be a Police minister with little or no knowledge of the job? Sign the next one up as a Special, and get them on shift at a weekend when all the window lickers and desk jockey’s have gone home. Then let them ‘reform’ us with toothless tigers.
We never go back to what we had… thats the problem with policing. We change forward…. no matter how backward it gets!
McNulty is the current Police Minister, met him just before xmas not long after the comment in Parliament about DC’s book being more of a fiction than Dickens.
He stated that he had indead read “wasting Police Time” and didn’t believe that it was a true reflection of modern Policing becuase it appeared too depressing and wasteful - this is despite every Police officer he met that night tellinghim exactly that. Annoyingly it was a busy friday night and we had in excess of 100 PC’s on duty covering my division including a bucket load of specials and the Commisioners Reserve - we would normally have had around 15. There was a group (5-6) arrested for robbery around 2200, they were still booking in/seizing clothing at 0230, He left at 0300 before the clubs kicked out. By 0500 my whole team, all the TSG, most of the specials and even a few normally office dwellers had closed all our custody suite (not small by any accounts) and taken up a large portion of the surrounding divisions, some were normal drunk offences but most were actually decent arrests for assualt, robbery, violent disorder, burglary etc. Most people made a few hours out of that night but some were on duty over 6 hours late, and thats after a 12 hour shift.
Two days later Mr McNulty was on TV saying how the custody process had been sped up significantly and officers were not spending hours on end booking people into custody. Although he did say he should have chosen his words more carefully in Parliament as I was not the only person who emailed him complaining about it (!!!!) he has never apologised or tried to back up his comments in anyway.
No one who will EVER be the Police Minister or Home secretary will have spent any amount of time as a serving Police Officer, they are politicians and see it in no different light than the education secretary, the health minister, the culture secretary or any other area of government. They don’t give a toss and the public are reaping the reward of their politicians seeing Policing as another stepping stone and not caring what we are telling them.
Anybody know how the 3 MPs that signed up as Specials went on?
The sharp end. Too shiney to be any use.
Sharp end ? Couldn’t cut a tomato. As for change, gloss it up in whatever terminology you want. The effort will be to reduce costs and claim that itis somehow more efficient and gives a better service. Then try to put responsibility back onto the Police. Then watch as the upper levels of senior management tidy up their political hats and follow the lead. You can’t just blame the politicians without looking at who advises them because they have their own agendas as well, good working conditions, parking places and good pensions, no daily threat to their lives, the fear of assault, abuse, etc etc etc. Efficiency savings and promoting the brand. It convinces all the people who don’t understand or don’t really give a toss about the quality service we try our best to provide.
Time for a lie down in a darkened room without hoops, hurdles and statistics.
Here’s something about the most prominent MP that’s a special:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6647455.stm
Didn’t David Davis become a special a while ago?
That might mean a home secretary who has at least some experience of the Police.
David Davis is indeed a Special, and after that piece on the BBC the forum host at http://www.policespecials.com/forum emailed him and invited him to join and say hello.
I was quit suprised because he actually did and was very humble about that arrest and even said something along the lines of “its nothing mroe than any other officer does every day”.
Would be good to have a chap like him as a Minister for Policing
May be the worm is turning, http://www.telegraph.co.uk and type in Philip Johnston.
The Sharp End…… Its not absorbant enough to be used productively!
Hazel Blears has always reminded me of those Civvy Staff who i ignore, which his about 90% of them. You know the type, the ones who send you emails threatening discipline action if you don’t reply and copy in your boss. I personally reply by copying in their boss threatening to make a complaint of institutionalised bureaucrozised bullying. No one knows what the hell that is but they are too scared to do anything about it. Civvy’s like our Hazel normally also get the royal treatment of a delayed response until I finally send a email back querying their email, see how they like trying to remember stuff 6 months down the line. When they respond I then fail to reply. I’m probably responsible for an increase of at least 5 Civvy staff alone just because of the extra work I create by not doing what they demand, sort of cutting of my nose to spite my face but stopping the tail wagging the dog if only for a moment is worth it. Of course some of our Civvy’s aren’t Hazels at all some are actually useful like 75% of our SOCO, 10% of admin, 5% of our personnel, 90% of our Casebuilders or 0% of our Witness Care who care for people as long as it doesn’t involve more than a phone call.
I realise i probably hijacked this topic into the Civvy staff debate but I can honestly say I reckon there is a Hazel in every nick and that’s why today is good day.
TotallyUn-Pc, but just imagine the last thing that the image of Hazel Blears would witness as she slid away???
B0B - another festering stinking mess? I shouldn’t wonder!
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Blears is like many such self servists, cocooned in their little world away from the sharp end and even when exposed to it they will close there eyes and ears, click there heels and repeat ‘ there’s no place like home…..there’s no place like home….’
On the note of her being a solicitor, today I was on a course (yes another one!!, a whole day of learning how to upset civilian staff by trying and failing to sort out their greivance!). Examples included a civvy running out the office in tears because another civy in the office wouldnt take a piece!!! We were told this was a valid greivance and need to take this serious! What if the person had a nut allergy? Come to think on it, maybes that why they didnt take a piece, cause the cake bringer was a nut!!!! Damn wish I had thought of that today in class!
I also had it confirmed today that Scotland is slowly being drip fed the English version of policing (ie more statute less common law aka common sense!!) as well as full dislosure which means MASSES more paperwork for us up here.
Not only that but our Executive are currently trying to persuade our solicitors to accept a revised deal on legal aid with a view to getting them to make their clients plead guilty quicker, or even on their initial appearance rather than snarling up the system for months to only say guilty at the end (which happens a lot!).
However the solicitors are saying nooooooooooooooooo. Why ? I hear you ask, cause you see if they represent a client from custody at court and he pleads guilty having been caught bang to rights they get flat rate legal aid fee of £25. If they get their client to plead not guilty so they can represent them, prepare the basic case, get them to appear months later and then say guilty they get £500 from legal aid.
Anyone spot the slight problem with getting them to accept a new deal ???? The words Turkeys coming for xmas spring to mind……….
Bleary Weary will be too busy rubber stamping all her legal aid claims to even think about being a special!
Jock, the new funding will be an eye opener down here if it ever comes in. The big fuss over refusing the right to trial by jury due to cost in the most trivial cases was a good example. Labour wanted to do away with it until they realised that many MP’s and peers were barristers and solicitiors and it would be injurious to their income - hence the idea has gone away. Not because they wanted to retain a fair system. If you are innocent you have the right to a trial by jury, after all leaving it to some of the magistrates and solicitors in my neck of the woods is a non starter. As for ‘Tiny Tears Blears’, glad to see the back of her, like many of her cabinet/ex cabiner colleagues best shot of the lot of them.
At risk of hijacking your thread, Gadget, here’s the latest review of Copperfield’s book on Amazon, which has made my blood boil. Never mind that ther previous 70 odd reviews all said it was spot on, and virtually every copper in the country agrees.
I can only assume Tony McNumpty is ‘Sam’ and he wrote it on his last day before clearing the old desk.
I reviewed it a while back, but positive counters from those who haven’t reviewed it yet might be in order?
Hijack over (and sorry!)
Sam (UK) writes:
You know the stout-flabbed, red-cheeked bellymen who stand at the pub bar and wheeze with amused disdain at anyone who enters the room not looking identical to them? Well, one of them has gathered his friday night diatribes into what has been mistaken for a book.
Don’t get me wrong, he tries hard to not be openly fascist, and it’s occasionally very funny, but only perhaps ten percent of the time was the amusement intentional. Maybe two out of every hundred “points” that he makes have any real-world validity [too many paper-pushers? You don't say . . . but yes he does, perhaps 800 times], even though he’ll insist his narrow, naive and somewhat sinister world-view [he believes he has a world view] applies to the nation, when it’s actually only to his own take on a couple of housing estates in “Newtown”.
Filtered through a sneering and selectively-informed filter of his own self-indulgent woe, this book is quite often a hilarious document of the moderate fascist mind. One who believes that one glance at a persons shoes or experience of them at their absolute worst speaks volumes about every human everywhere who isn’t a policeperson or one of his friends. His blazing contempt for people is couched in pithy, derivative “wit” and helpful pointers on how they could and should be more like him.
The one or two decent points that he makes are well-worn, too. This is a bitter and naive book, lacking in any real insight. It tries hard to appear otherwise, but it’s really quite toxic and hopeless as our author sits merrily wallowing in his exhausted self-indulgence.
Read it of course, but expect to learn more about the state of one man’s mind and fascist hopes than you will about the state of Britain or policing.
watch it ! there trying to flush you out ,clumsy attempt to provoke a response ,like the Penguins say in the popular animation film Magagascar, “just smile and wave “
You might consider us lucky to have missed the opportunity to have “chipmunk” Blears as deputy PM, but you would perhaps admit that Brown’s sidelining of Harriet Harmon was a very wise move!
My word, Cuddles appears to have written a review, that guy gets EVERYWHERE!!!
At least Hazel didn’t try to get rid of JPs on police authorities. Get rid of coppers, yes, increase bureaucracy, yes.
If there is a god, then McNulty won’t stay either….
areasearchnegative re your first comment….yeah probably.
It can’t be Cuddles Metcountymounty, there’s no swear words, no liberal use of the words “pig scum”, no absolutely appalling spelling mistakes & no video links entitled “pig scum die” or “cop killer” by Ice T.
Maybe it’s the educated older sibling?!!
I’m also assuming this is the real Metcountymounty as opposed to the ‘hilarious’ impersonator?
Sorry for the hijack guv!
I dont know if anyone can remember Blears saying in the press about Taser, “its a dangerous weapon” and we shouldn’t get it, well I was amused when Mike Todd got tasered, because if it was that dangerous a weapon why didnt he prefer to be clubbed with our bone breaking Asps, just to prove they arnt dangerous. Blears has got no idea whatsoever of policing and Mcnulty is no better. Im glad she got binned at the first stage, I now only hope that we have a general election to get rid of the other muppets.
PS we start trials on taser in our force in September, to little to late for some I fear.
Thanks a bunch Blears ….
I think Patsy Hewitt is looking for a job, should we point her in your direction?
Please…….
SD
Yeah i must admit the sharp end is a load of rubbish. As truthful as King and Country of the blackadder Goes Forth fame but not at all soft, strong, or thoroughly absorbent.
It cant be too bad though as TAFF, a regular contributor to the site, has it delivered to his home address and work address.
Durham cop, obviously Sam is not a police officer and does not have a clue what he/she is talking about. Almost everyone that I work with has read DC’s book and it is so true to policing life that only a police officer would fully appreciate it.
GND, I meant the seemingly intelligent Cuddles not the other one(s)!!!
BLEARS was dangerous and McNUMPTY is clueless, but do you actually think that there are any current labour MPs who could have a go at the job without making a complete pigs ear of it. The worst part is the bosses just sit and pander to whatever hoop is extended that week.
their should be a royal commission review, completly “independant” of all party politics and should involve the rank and file. Policing should involved pro active and intergrated responses to crime and real policing issues. Then it sgould be left to our “partners” to look at the causes of crime. To much of the ownus is on the police to solve, reduce and erradicate the causes of crime.
Let us get back to PEELs principles, which is a good place for the Mp’s to start. For example the test of effective policing is the absence of crime and disorder, NOT the visible evidence of policing dealing with it (re PCSO’S). Let us police and let the others stop those young ones getting into crime and let the courts really deal with those that defy the laws that are there to protect society.
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