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Category Archives: Policing
The wrong time for fancy dress Tom
Last October Tom Winsor became the first Chief Inspector of Constabulary to be appointed who had not served as a Police Officer. This role was first created in 1856 and so this was a significant break with 156 years of history. … Continue reading
The strange views of Iain Dale
This morning somewhere in Brighton a 51 year old man is due to attend a Sussex Police station in connection with an assault on another man on Brighton seafront. The assault took place on Tuesday morning and both men are both … Continue reading
Posted in Policing
Tagged Brighton & Hove, Damian McBride, Daybreak, Iain Dale, ITV, Labour conference, Stuart Holmes, Sussex Police
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‘Profound shock’ has been delayed for over 6 years
According to this BBC News report and our weekend papers Theresa May is to introduce a new piece of legislation during the current session of Parliament which will provide tougher sanctions to tackle modern-day slavery in the UK. This news is … Continue reading
Full marks to the Police, none to Tax Payers Alliance
The Summer months are well known as a slow news period and whilst this has clearly not been the case on an International front this year, perhaps our newspapers are too inflexible to try to expand their International news to take advantage … Continue reading
Lock the door and throw away the key
According to the East Anglia Daily Times the MP for Clacton, Douglas Carswell is angry with his local Police force because they are not locking up sufficient young people under the age of 16. He appears to have based his opinions on a Freedom of … Continue reading
Bone is at it again
I wrote last weekend following comments made by Peter Bone MP in the light of the appalling campaign by the Home Office using advertising vans. Yesterdays World At One on Radio 4 once again reflected on this campaign, partly because … Continue reading
A reckless approach to Policing
As I wrote yesterday the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) has been recently snubbed by the Home Secretary, as their President, Sir Hugh Orde attempts to bring some form of clarity to the relationship between the 41 Chief Constables and the elected Police and Crime Commissioners. … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy, Police & Crime Commissioner, Policing
Tagged ACPO, Association of Chief Police Officers, Conservative Party, European Court of Human Rights, Government, Home Affairs Select Committee, Home Secretary, Hugh Orde, Mark Reckless, Police and Crime Commissioner, Theresa May
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We need good links to the Home Office
In the eight months since the election of the 41 Police and Crime Commissioners across England and Wales, the relationship between Chief Constable and Police and Crime Commissioner has varied from the positive and warm to the down right hostile … Continue reading
Posted in Community Safety, Parliament and Democracy, Police & Crime Commissioner, Policing
Tagged Association of Chief Police Officers, Conservative Party, Government, Home Office, Home Secretary, Hugh Orde, Independent Candidates, Labour Party, Police and Crime Commissioner, Theresa May, Whitehall
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You say scale up, I say scale down …
The power which is exercised by democratically elected Governments is meant to be power that they administer on behalf of the whole of society. This suggests that their role is meant to be facilitative not controlling or coercive. The state inevitably on … Continue reading
Posted in Charities, Community Safety, Parliament and Democracy, Policing
Tagged Bluebell, Charities, Government, Justice ministry, Prison, Probation, Sussex, Volunteering
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Bernard is as inept as Boris
On Friday nights Radio 4 Any Questions one of the questions related to the appalling failure of judgement by the Metropolitan Police in choosing to investigate the family and friends of Stephen Lawrence during the aftermath of Stephens murder. The panel on … Continue reading
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