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Category Archives: Policing
A reflection on a bad old year
January is a month when many of us set new years resolutions (although most of those set on New Years day morning are usually forgotten by now) and when lots of official data for the year before is published. It is the month … Continue reading
Are we equipped to make this decision?
In recent years Governments of all hues have expressed a commitment to extend democracy into areas of life that our parents would not have been expected to participate in. Some of us have the opportunity to decide if our children’s … Continue reading
Posted in Policing
Tagged British Crime Survey, Democracy, Government, Nick Herbert, Parliament, Police, Police and Crime Commissioner
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Politics and Policing don’t mix
In October the Government announced a fundamental change to the way in which our Police force is to be governed. There is a danger that this will lead to the police becoming political footballs. The proposals will remove decision making … Continue reading
How to avoid offence
In the context of a Summer of disturbances in some of our major cities we in Sussex are grateful that the copy cat actions did not reach our County boundaries. Some early indications of trouble were picked up in Crawley and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Policing, UK Riots in August 2011
Tagged Community Chaplaincy, FareShare, Ken Clarke, Police, Probation, Riots, Street Pastors, Voluntary Sector, YMCA
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How Green was their Valley?
The aerial photograph below is said to show the travellers site at Dale Farm in Essex before the travellers began to remove the scrap cars and develop part of the site without planning permission. Something of the back story is contained in the BBC … Continue reading
Posted in Planning Rules, Policing
Tagged Dale Farm, Eric Pickles, Lord Hanningfield, Parliament, Police, Travellers
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How our elected representatives can get things wrong
None of us can be expected to be right all the time, but in political terms Dr Caroline Lucas MP whose face appears on the banner photo above this blog has made a number of very good public judgements since her election in … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Parliament and Democracy, Policing
Tagged Caroline Lucas, Government, Magistracy, MPs, UK uncut, UKTI
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We need Policing not Politics
The coalition Government came to power with a long list of ideas and proposals that were intended to change the way in which services are delivered in local communities. Many of these were inspired by good intentions but few appear to have been thought through adequately. One … Continue reading
End the farce at New Scotland Yard!
As part of the famous handbag scene in Oscar Wilde’s farce, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Bracknell declares ‘To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.’ This same epithet … Continue reading
The last 10 days have been a difficult time for many of us in a number of ways. Not everyone has the certainty of a regular holiday, so sympathy for Boris and Dave who under some duress (particularly on the part of the … Continue reading
A Policemans lot is not a happy one!
This years Centenary of the death of WS Gilbert commemorates the man who wrote these words as part of his Operetta, Pirates of Penzance ‘Our feelings we with difficulty smother, when Constabulary duty’s to be done, Ah, take one consideration with another, a policeman’s lot is not … Continue reading
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