Happy Christmas
December 24, 2007 by inspectorgadget
Happy Christmas to all Inspector Gadget readers. I hope that 2007 was good to you. Unless you are a criminal, in which case I hope it was terrible.
In 2008, I will continue to bring you real-life local and national examples of what Theodore Dalrymple calls “The absurd and dangerous leniency of the criminal-justice system”. I will also tell you more about all the nonsense thrust upon us by promotion obsessed Senior Officers and hapless politicians.
“Right you lot, keep searching for that snowball. A Detection is a Detection and we won’t stop until we reach our Government target!”
Hopefully this will be done with style and humour. You will also be entertained with all the latest news about the Ruralshire animals, my clandestine meetings with other members of the Resistance Movement and real life accounts of the tragedy and danger faced by officers on the front line.
Above all, let’s not forget why we joined the police in the first place; to eat doughnuts, drink coffee, drive fast cars and lock up bad guys.
At least we still get the dougnuts and coffee.
Roll on one million hits! After all, statistics are so important these days.
I see both you and bloggs have ghosted out that “meeting”.
Happy Christmas Gov!
Merry Christmass to all and lets hope 2008 brings us and extra 0.6%.
Happy Christmas Boss. Look foward to the book.
Happy Christmas Gadget!
Can’t believe you are looking to increase hits - isn’t that the same as trying to increase the number of assaults?
You should be looking at reductions - it’s the way forward.
Calling all cars, calling all cars, this is a “Dog with Ginger Eyebrows alert.” Last seen rewriting history and airbrushing photographs. If observed, report location but do not approach. When he considers himself cornered he has used administrative sanctions to deadly effect.
Merry winter festival an all that. Regards for 08. Keep the keyboard clicking and your mind a hive of corporate disobedience.
Go Gadget, Go
A million hits can’t be wrong.
All the best for 2008
Hope you Debbie and the little Gadgets have a great Christmas.
Be safe as you protect us from them, and them from them.
Happy Christmas to you & Mrs IG.
Coffee, dougnuts and - ‘driving fast cars’, as at the moment we can still just do that after we have ‘Dynamically Risk Assessed’ it!!
2008 - lets wish for our remaining pay increase to follow the potential 6% the MP’s want?
EHU
Merry Christmas to you and yours
I hope you have a peaceful one and also the new year
Keep up the fight for the right (Not the wing that is)
P.S. Look after the llamas
Have a brilliant, if not cracking, Christmas IG.
All the very best to you and your family….kingmagic.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Inspector Gadget and to all of the UK’s finest.
Keep up the good fight against crime, despite the kick in the teeth you received in lieu of a decent pay rise. Why do we Americans call it a pay raise? Always remember ” A full jail is a happy jail,
Just finished my RT car posting but the other 3 still hold true!
A Happy Christmas and a fine New Year to everyone.
Keep smiling and keep taking the pills
Love ‘n’ hugs
Gadge,
Will there be a special prize for the 1,000,000th hit please?
Bless you and all your family…Merry Christmas…
Happy Christmas Gadget (sir) hope you are not working this one!
Merry Xmas to all crimefighters out there. And to my colleagues working over the silly season, be safe and get your retaliation in first.
Happy Christmas to you and all your family.
Thanks for showing us what you are really up against.
Hope 2008 is good for you.
Lyds
Merry Christmas yourself!
Ho ho flippin’ ho and all that.
I echo Lyds - and I hope to God that still you believe, as I knew when I was a little girl, that the Police Force is to protect the public good. God Bless you all -we need you more than ever.
After last nights “idiots who can’t hold their drink fighting outside pubs” night I prepare for tonight. . . the traditional Christmas night “Idiots who can’t have a nice family day without resorting to a domestic”. Can’t wait!
I think last night’s nominee for “drunken idiot of the night award” thought that being obstructive in custody and then kicking off big stylee when shown to his en-suite accomodation would prevent me finding the two big bags of skunk he had on him. How wrong can one drunken half-wit be I asked myself as I further arrested him. . . .
We’ve just had our first husband-snots-wife-after finding out about her affair for christmas. He’s in the cells, she’s in the hospital. Goodwill to all persons!
Merry Christmas to you all, you miserable buggers. Perhaps we’ll all meet at the lobby on Parliament in January?
Hands up those who are working today and are (A) Chief Insp or above, or (B) Anything other than response. No takers?
Ho ho ho, one of my best boys has just locked someone up for Riding a carriage furiously in the street, contrary to section 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847!
Merry Christmas Gadget!
Having watched the Great Escape again I considered constructing a tunnel as far as the treeline from the pulpit area of the custody facility where I am currently detained for the duration (admittedly at the right side of the cell doors ) but then thought better of it as I didnt think that I would get far with a spork as my only digging implement. Better then to sit it out and draw strength from the little things in life that give you that warm glow inside such as serving ‘all day breakfasts’ ‘Lasagnes’ and a variety of microwaved curried mystery items to all the naughty boys who have pushed their luck way too far on the street on Xmas Eve and now have to stay with us until those nice Magistrates sit again on Thursday. Ho Ho Ho!!! Happy New Year.
happy winter solstice!
Merry christmas, albeit a day late!
p.s., how on earth did you do that snow effect thingy? It’s not confiscated (sp?) charlie is it?
Tidings of joy - and I’m not response… or custody…. but I’m still here!!!
Merry Christmas Gadget!
Regards,
Nick
http://nickhough.blogspot.com
Ho Ho Ho! (And that’s not a comment on the virtues of one of our comms assistants). I walked in on Christmas day to find a Reg 9 on my desk. Nothing like a bit of Christmas spirit to start your shift.
Happy Christmas and new year to all. (Apart from the morally corrupt individuals who make up our ‘Government’- I hope you all got Reindeer jumpers as gifts)
All the best you and yours IG, and to all emergency service workers everywhere.
I thought you were in the Police? Surely you can show that you already have reached a million hits. In fact, you reached it four years ago, before you started writing it. Unfortunately, the Home Office have changed the way the figures are now collated, so it doesn’t give a true reflection of all the hard work the Safer Neighbourhood Teams have put into increasing the figures….
But seriously, keep it up guv’nor. Crackin’ read.
Onwards and upwards. Lets hope that in 2008 everyone out there on the the thin blue line stays safe and happy.
Yes. Those Ruralshire animals. I have my suspicions about the Ruralshire “sheep” that so often appear on this blog. They are not genuine sheep but actors!
Merry Christmas to all!
Merry Christmas to you too.
Sombre news I’m afraid Gadget
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7160944.stm
IG & Cogidubnus
Terrible news, what a memory for the family now, for them, every Christmas in the future will now be diverted to, (what you and I take for granted, being with family at what should be a happy time), their remembrance for their loved one. My thoughts are with them.
EHU
Sits silently in sadness. Oh, bugger. Not again
Ms Smith, ‘ Why should we be treated any different to a school teacher ours is ONLY LIKE any other job’. Thank you and a Happy New Year to you Ms Smith and Mcnumpty with his weasel words.
Happy 2008 to you Gadget and all other police bloggers.
When I feel low after another absurd memo from on high. When my supervisors tell me my sanctioned detection rate is lacking. When I am told to think of a piece of ‘diversity’ to add to my PDR, I log on to you, PC Bloggs; 200 weeks; Another Constable and all the others in ‘the resistance’ and I realise that I am not alone in this sea of madness. I realize that perhaps there is hope at the end of this grubby, immoral, target obsessed, tarnished rainbow that is policing in the UK today.
Thanks to you all - you keep me sane.
A belated season’s greeting.
John
A Merry Christmas to you too, Guv (is that the correct way to address you?) I love reading your blog and PC Copperfield’s too because they remind me that the Dark Satanic Mill is not so bad after all. I haven’t been online much since the end of October and so haven’t had a chance to read your blogs. I will endeavour to remedy my omission in the New Year!
Happy New Year to you and Debbie Gadget!
Season’s Greetings to all at Schloss Gadget, and to all those out there in harms way.
Nil illegitimati carborundum.
Boss,
Season’s greetings and wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year to you and your family and also to all the readers of your blog. Despite receiving copies of my force’s monthly newspaper telling me how safe our county is, I then turn to your blog and those of Dave and Bloggsy to see that though it’s a different day, it’s still the same s**t. Keep blogging.
Regards,
Plodnomore
Merry Christmas, love the snowfall.
Oh Gadget, we’re all criminals one way or another - be it speeding or copyright infringement, nicking a pen from work, etc; and that’s before we get on to some of the forgotten laws that are still on the books.
Still, a Merry Christmas to you anyway!
Best wishes for 2008 to you and your family, and keep up the good work
We had our first sales queue disorder incident in the early hours of the 26th. Only another 365 shopping days to Christmas
Oh and happy Christmas to you IG and all my fellow readers of the most accurate police blog that there is
Is that your dandruff falling over the screen IG?
Safe New Year Guv!