BTP Branch International Police Association

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One of the many benefits of IPA membership is the travel opportunities it provides. Whether you're attending a course, want to meet some local members, or get some top tips for your holiday destination, we can help #BePartofSomethingBigger for just £10. ipa-uk.org

Have a peaceful holiday.

Our thanks to @ipaiac Section Gibraltar and @RGPolice for putting this trip together for us. #BeOneOfUs at ipa-uk.org or ipa-gibraltar.gi

@martin5671 They're reference books for stuff I've found online, rather than teaching books. Companies want £100 a pop, or if you've got a university login it's fill your boots

Currently doing a teaching qualification, but no OpenAthens (or similar) access. Some amazing books and reference materials, but how on earth does an academic book go for £100? I just don't get the economics, certainly I can't afford that.

@Steph_BandT Amputate everything below the eyebrows. Sorted.

It's never good when your physio can repeatedly clonk and pop your hip bones. It's never good when your physio wants to use you as a case study. It's never good when your physio wants you to see an orthopedic surgeon.

@DrAmirKhanGP Been a strange year for birds. Pretty sure some of the starlings in my garden are on their third brood.

Morning! There must be a lot of love in the air as the ducklings keep coming Hanging out on the waters edge, these guys look fairy new arrival to the world and very welcome they are! #tuesdaymotivation

@NicholasAngelUK @Miles_PBH Not at all, they're God's amongst men.

@IPA_BTPBranch @Miles_PBH Trying to work out if this is disapproving of their proactivity?

BTP seem to be a very different beast in London as opposed to the far flung outposts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_is…

@DP_RyanHowell @HantsPolice @ldavidmarquet Probably the best book on leadership I've ever read.

Today I'm spending some time with the CSI team in Poole before meeting up with their new CSI Team Leader, who's coming over on promotion from @HantsPolice. We're meeting over coffee and we'll talk about leadership. I've got a gift to share with her:

We have organised a FREE online seminar on Human Sex Trafficking with a retired US undercover detective. Friday 5th July at 1900hrs BST. Open to everyone, check the link below to find out more buytickets.at/internationalp…

@MountyinaCounty @toniwriter You can have my cold, dead body before you take away my sprinkles, marshmallows and chocolate dust.

@toniwriter And don't forget the sprinkles

I don't like tea or coffee but can confirm that, over the years, I have received a lot of shitty comments & looks for ordering hot chocolates as an adult, as if I'm somehow 'childish'. I'm glad I've not changed & now influence lots of you to enjoy hot chocolates too 💖

Kudos to the NYPD Transit Bureau for their Broken Windows initiatives and their push back against the tired, old argument by the progressives that it purposely and disproportionately targets minorities. No, it targets those who are breaking the law, and appropriately so. Keep it up, Chief Kemper and your hard working cops. Just think what you could do if your understaffed Bureau was staffed to the level I had in 1990 as Transit Chief — 3,800 cops and if the NYPD was staffed to the level I had as Police Commissioner in 1994 — 38,000. Enough cops and the right strategies could bring New York to even lower levels of crime and disorder. amny.com/editorial/edit…

Railbob on tour @HelstonRailway

@4d_s5 @OMRS17995839 @metpoliceuk I think I know who that skipper is. But anyways, I know several former Irish Army chaps who have either gone straight to service in UK policing, or joined the British Army then UK policing. Chuck a few deployments in and it's a wide range of gongs.

@OMRS17995839 @metpoliceuk This boggles me. This Irish Peacekeeping Medal cropping up with British medals, to Officers in the Met Police.

Sat pondering the ambiguity surrounding foreign awards. With modern veterans receiving US awards, Polish awards, the Estonian NATO KAITSEL medal, and the NATO ISAF medal… I hope we see it become more widely accepted for these medals to be worn. @worcmedals @cabinetofficeuk @VeteransGovUK @grantshapps

Wembley Park’s NPT were at WP for the Wembley Stadium Taylor Swift ERAS tour The multifunction award winning OpCharge point , handed out cards , charged over 160 phones, was a Safe Zone, Santuary and safety where yellow wrist bands were given to children in case they get lost.

@Protect_ServeUK Tis a feral place at times.

@obbsie Nothing but common garden criminals, although most of them would be more sensible than to damage Stonehenge

What absolute scum. Utterly counter-productive.