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Ruralshire Constabulary Easter Emergency Plan

March 23, 2008 by inspectorgadget

Chapter One: Floods.

Chapter Two: Organised Crime.

Chapter Three: Terrorist Attack.

Chapter Four: All Other Major Disasters.

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18 Responses to “Ruralshire Constabulary Easter Emergency Plan”

on March 23, 2008 at 7:26 am1 areasearchnegtive

oh yeah
on March 23, 2008 at 8:49 am2 uphilldowndale

Chocolate doughnuts Gadget, chocolate, it is Easter.
Do you have any snow shovels? we could use some.
on March 23, 2008 at 8:57 am3 joker the lurcher

we could do with some doughnuts round here, mr gadget, please send emergency supplies in a nee-naw.
on March 23, 2008 at 10:49 am4 Stinky

Easter - not a single squad, desk jockey or Senior manager in sight.

Revel in the beauty of not having any e-mails and being able to go and do some Police work, before they all come back on Tuesday and the car park is full.
on March 23, 2008 at 11:55 am5 Bobby

Empty car parks, no emails and best of all, no bosses.

Isn’t it amazing that all forces the length and breadth of the UK are exactly the same in this respect ?

Obviously no crime occurs over the holidays.

Bring on the doughnuts !
on March 23, 2008 at 12:27 pm6 Bob

Something that always amuse me is that we are able to fully function without any SMT in the station for four whole days. Who needs who the most?. And what about all those support staff we function without them as well.
on March 23, 2008 at 2:23 pm7 nightjack

Yup, this grim faced murder squad detective has just polished off roast chicken dinner and is about to start on the chocolate eggs.
on March 23, 2008 at 4:29 pm8 TaxPayingFool

A little light relief…

http://www.sundaymail.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/03/23/drunken-ned-goes-on-run-from-police-in-8mph-scooter-78057-20359496/

for the hard-working boys in blue.
on March 23, 2008 at 4:56 pm9 frank

How come all those office dwellers with the whole of easter off have to put the auto out of office reply on their emails though?? WE KNOW YOU’RE NOT HERE!!! I’ve made sure I’ve left them plenty of emails to get through on tuesday, thus guaranteeing us another hassle free day.

IG, is that a Krispy Kreme donut or is ruralshire too rural yet for Krispy Kreme?? Mmmmmmm….
on March 23, 2008 at 8:42 pm10 Ex-RUC

Sorry, but one small part of the UK has leave cancelled at this time of year. The annual “Easter Rising” parades in Northern Ireland, you see. Mind you, they are not a patch on the old days - I bet not a single baton round has been fired!
on March 23, 2008 at 9:54 pm11 TheBinarySurfer

That said, while all your upper management have mysteriously vaporised for the next 48 hours, theres plenty of (oddly) very bored PC’s around. Mind you it was pissing it down here so i guess most of the Friday night drunks were indoors…

The domestic in the flat above me last night (unusual as i live in a pretty nice area but what can i say - the one guy seems to think it’s a spectator sport beating his girlfriend - he makes sure we’re all aware of it - scum) got a response in less than 10 minutes which is pretty damn fast for my area.

From speaking to mates on the job in the area more like 20-45 is more common unless it’s something unusual.
on March 24, 2008 at 1:38 am12 PT COP

These weekends always take me back to my first August bank holiday weekend in the job (1995) when I worked all three days because the shift I loved working with only had 3 PC’s and a skipper. Normally you’d expect to see 10-12 plus the skipper.

These numbers are suicide in the winter but during a long weekend in the summer its totally nuts. Everyone out getting hammered, domestic central and plenty of alchol fueled public order. But oh yes, we had the chief constables reserve on watch over the county - what a relief. It would only take the Iveco(no sprinters back then) 30 mins (at a push) to make it from one end to the other in the event of female chest parts elevating suddenly.

Thats exactly what happened. To this day I don’t remember a shift ever being quite so busy. We were like DHL dropping off and heading back out, no time for PNB’s, other than a quick time stamp. Cuffing off the bollocks (because you could back then), and the two cars systematically backing each other to every call, which never seemed to end, the skipper single crewed dealing with the low level jobs to get em off the screen. The only respite when the overlap hybrid of bank holiday shifts, 2 PC’s coming on at 4, turned up to increase our numbers by 50%.

God knows what the real MOP thought of the service. Our regular customers got short shrift on that day. No time for their usual attention seeking.

And we had a minor siege with a man barricading himself in to deal with. 4 of us and the skipper, and one of us, me, wet behind the ears with 3 months in, handed a round shield and a big old style heavy stab vest to wear. Not quite sure what I’d do if Mac the knife headed in my direction.

But for the fact the bloke thought he should just give himself up and came out after 20 mins we’d have been totally in the brown stuff.

That said we had coppers with 8-10 years in as PC’s, masters at dealing with all this sh*te. Not today.

As I recall, we didn’t even have time for donuts - shocking I know!
on March 24, 2008 at 10:19 am13 pcmcgarry#452

Empty car parks, no emails and best of all, no bosses.

And you get paid double bubble today as well. Yippee.
on March 24, 2008 at 3:29 pm14 scrofulla

Ex-RUC @10
Of course not.We all love each other now!Beside’s that you wouldn’t want the Top Team having kitten’s offending any of our community rep’s and nice politicians.It’s much more acceptable for them to let officer’s get a good kicking than to let off a few AEP’s.You only have to look at the Ardoyne shop front’s a couple of year’s ago when the White’s and Green’s got hammered to see how bad they would let thing’s go in order to protect themselves.
on March 24, 2008 at 3:57 pm15 Insp Bloke

Double bubble ? If only the Inspectors hadn’t been sold down the river when we lost our paid overtime years ago.

Still, at least the office based bosses are quids in. Must say, though, it must be far worse for the DIs, especially those on call out.
on March 24, 2008 at 10:35 pm16 were doomed

Re 5. Even the Pikeys knew there would be no one around over Easter when they pitched camp near Tessa’s pile. Ho Ho Ho.
on March 25, 2008 at 10:25 am17 Stocking

I thought it was a cup of tea that was the reached for in an emergency!
I stand corrected.
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on March 27, 2008 at 10:01 pm18 Metro Gnome

Delicious IG, but I do hope that they were fairtrade organic doughnuts. Society would expect us to eat with equity and integrity.

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