Posted in Uncategorized on August 14, 2007 | 25 Comments »
Some days in this job are made for this Blog.
It’s as if the general public say “Inspector Gadget is writing a Blog about policing nonsense, let’s give him something to write about”.
Today was such a day.
I went round to the houses of two local residents who wished to make seperate complaints against Ruralshire Constabulary.
The first [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2007 | 39 Comments »
Here in Ruralshire Constabulary, we use four established 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 [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 4, 2007 | 19 Comments »
As you are by now aware, Ruralshire police are a County Constabulary. That means woods, rivers and fields. Lots of fields. And lots of fields means some crops but mainly livestock. We have already met Ruralshire’s sheep and Llamas.
As a new outbreak of foot and mouth disease begins to break out, my Superintendent is glad [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on August 2, 2007 | 44 Comments »
The new centralised Force Control Room has to be one of the biggest, and probably most expensive arse covering exercises ever known to man.
Emasculated by crippling political correctness, stripped of power by numerous oversight committees, fearful of dismissal and loss of pension and slaves to various Government inspired targets, the so called decision makers are [...]
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