Not Phil McGee

@JamJarOppo I remember a recent story that recruits at Hendon had to be briefed to stop using "Sargington", much to the confusion of everyone else in the world who had never heard the term.

Guv! Guvnor! Skip! Skipper Fackin luv the intracies of titles in police culture. My favourite from cockney slang is Jack and Jill.

@sherlock_comms Especially given that this very similar case was heard only a few weeks ago: cps.gov.uk/cps/news/polic… Who even knows any more, desperately sad for everyone involved in both.

@McGeePhil Quite! Even if negligent l wouldn't imagine it.

Sometimes feels like cops are the only group that reliably go to jail nowadays.

STOP TEACHING DISTRACTION STRIKES. YOU’RE GETTING COPS SACKED Distraction strikes are sold as a quick interrupt that generates compliance. In practice, many cops can’t convert the moment into dominant position. The result is a strike loop that looks punitive and achieves little.

@gmhales Errors is probably right - HOCR data drawn from police systems, system updated by supervisors using a drop down where Outcomes 8 (CRD), 9 (NITPI/CPS) & 10 (NITPI/Police) are next to each other, job never looked at again on the police side post-closure to sift errors?

Q for police: what would be an example of the circumstances in which a rape case might be closed as "not in the public interest - police decision". There are v few such cases.

@thinkdefence No! Bin the RAF. Air corps get transport kit, FAA get attack stuff.

Would moving the Army Air Corps and Royal Artillery attack helicopters and drones, plus the RA medium range air defence capability, into the RAF, deliver benefits

@rawlimark Grantley Hall?

@Outcome_Code_18 @PropperCop This is exceptional. Cheers!

@PropperCop Protip: at the end of every online training session there's a box for feedback. Write in it: "I did not understand this training and do not feel competent in its stated aims. Can someone please get in touch to discuss further learning". They never will, obviously.

I'd better make sure my college learn packages are all done then. They're of such high quality, they'll clearly equip me for anything & give me the experience required as a lowly PC to know exactly what to do during a terrorist attack! IOPC are seriously scraping the barrel! 🤦

@LestorSpigot @MightyMushroomM I had no idea that they existed (assumed it was Serco or G4S) thank you for such a quick steer. Turns out their kit has previously been supplied by OpGear, who also did HMP, which I imagine accounts for the similarities.

@McGeePhil @MightyMushroomM RCJ Security

Potential BANKSY ARTWORK. Depicting a Judge attacking a protester with his Gavel. Currently being covered by the Westminster Council. #StreetArt #Banksy #LondonArt #breaking #BreakingNews #artnews

@DTTFingers @MittensOff Which law is that then?

@MittensOff You're required to produce three forms of ID to prove you are operating in an official capacity and those documents need to be tendered upon request...basic statutory law. ;)

More from Private Pike, demanding uniformed officers show him their warrant card under Section 90. There is no general legal requirement for them to do so if they are clearly in uniform, and these officers also arrived in a police vehicle. The Section 90 he yawps is from the Police Act 1996 and deals with impersonation and misuse of police identity, not their legal requirement to produce it when it’s obvious even to stupid boys like Pike who they are. Personally I may have shown my ID to shut him up (briefly), but not at the expense of my safety or others in what is a confrontational situation like this one. In summary, he's a knob.

@CBRNEsteve Are Wilts one of the *vile* forces that do the cotton bud of PAVA in the eyeball?

I joined Wiltshire Special Constabulary. The training was tough - lots of law and systems to learn. Generally good experienced instructors. You need to be able to perform across domains (physical, intellectual) under stress and often alone. It’s tough - though not as tough as when you have PAVA put in your eye.

So yesterday I ended a journey as a Special constable after 7 years of shifts in response. The Dekit process is both more efficient than the MoD but also a little sadder as you archive your notebooks, pass over your warrant card and uniform. It strangely felt more emotional to me than when I left regular military service. An indulgent thread about why I loved being a Special and what the MoD could learn @DefenceHQ @wiltshirepolice

@RogerHu08680547 @InspGadgetBlogs But how do we work out what's lawful and what isn't without sending it to court? That's literally what courts (especially crown) are for. It's Reform soundbite nonsense.

@InspGadgetBlogs I think, if I’d read it correctly, she’s suggesting the police who shoot suspects (lawfully) should not be pursued through the courts - or have I got that wrong…?

Kent Council leader Linden Kemkaran says police should be able to 'shoot people if they feel that that person is going to present a real and present danger to themselves or to members of the public'. Police already have these powers. Reform UK is just becoming ridiculous now.

@sherlock_comms Especially those who've a phone plugged.🫣

@marcowenjones @Frances_Coppola Splitters!

@Frances_Coppola exactly 😀

So how does it work with Palestine Action. Can they just rebrand as Action on Palestine and they're good to go?

@gmhales Massive bone of contention in mine is that anyone holding PIP2 can't apply for a non-PIP2 role, preventing people looking for internal roles to transfer to and just going sick instead.

I was recently reminded that there are various policies in policing that may be in tension with officer wellbeing, not least pushing officers to take annual leave rather than sick leave to mask illness. #policeworkforce

@MentalHealthCop @gmhales The annual shock in duties planning that New Year's Eve is, in fact, happening *again*

@gmhales One of the biggest ones, for me, has always been cancellation of rest days and compulsory overtime to police events planners chose to leave unplanned until, relatively speaking, the last moment. And often, all compounded by not training enough public order officers, etc..

@west_response Schrödinger's intervention: job will stick you on if they become aware that you witnessed something and didn't intervene, job will stick you on if you intervene and something goes wrong. Better just hope that you do everything right, always, and everyone else sees it that way.

@SpamNotAMan @PCWibble Lol literally all of them, we do not fund policing correctly.

@PCWibble Has the ability to produce the same items. Which forces have an incorrect funding formula?

@SpamNotAMan @PCWibble Imagine a number of big regional training bases for OST, CBRN, TASER, public order and driving, with accommodation that could be applied for and actually good facilities because of pooling resources instead of just being in a scout hut or something. Like Ryton, but for everyone.

@PCWibble Everything else except info/intelligent will have to remain regional. Imagine getting a PST course, in Coventry or your vehicles being delegated to an event in Manchester. Imagine the national supplier of specialised kit decided to raise their prices 200% and no other business