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Steve Cooper. Former Royal Marine & D/Insp. I support aspiring cops to realise potential, develop as leaders & nail promotions. ILM L7 coach/mentor

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🔷🔷 INSPECTOR EXAM SUCCESS? 🎯

🎉 ☀️ Congratulations! 🚦

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[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Negativity & pessimism is killing so much potential.

People stop trying & they join the chorus of resignation…
And by “fitting in,” they lose the life they could have had.

Be the biggest optimist you know.
Go create a fantastic life.
Try for unreasonable things.

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🚨🚔 🔎What do people in policing think about police reforms❓🤷‍♂️

Results of my independent survey out now. Mixed reviews but overall clearly negative 👎

🪪 Licence to practice…shot down. 🔫😲

✍️ See full results, analysis & officer’s comments here 👇

https://t.co/fnmfxefrKW

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[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Have a place where you go to think. A porch. A trail. A coffee shop. A park bench. Somewhere your mind knows it's time to slow down. Most people spend their lives searching for answers. Few create the conditions for answers to appear.

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What does good police leadership look like?

I recently asked operational officers working early, days & late shifts.

Across two forces & various roles, here's what they said.

✍️https://t.co/X4RtrMgoAc

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🚨🚔 🔎What do people in policing think about police reforms❓🤷‍♂️

Results of my independent survey out now. Mixed reviews but overall clearly negative 👎

🪪 Licence to practice…shot down. 🔫😲

✍️ See full results, analysis & officer’s comments here 👇 https://t.co/IAI63jaCje

[Growth by Visuals | Visual Simplifier @growthbyvisuals]

The only thing that matters. Quote from @jeffmooreofficial

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“Building a workforce with the intellectual & psychological aptitude necessary to work in an increasingly automated environment will be an important part of preparing policing for the future..as an aspiring leader what are your thoughts on this?"
https://t.co/RJ24dgGto3

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🚨🚔 🔎What do people in policing think about police reforms❓🤷‍♂️

Results of my independent survey out now. Mixed reviews but overall clearly negative 👎

🪪 Licence to practice…shot down. 🔫😲

✍️ See full results, analysis & officer’s comments here 👇 https://t.co/IAI63jaCje

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

He Punished Officers For Telling The Truth. Then He Was Arrested For Stealing From Them.

Mukund Krishna was the first civilian chief executive of the Police Federation of England and Wales. He was a former management consultant born in India who relocated to the UK in 2007 and had no frontline policing experience. He was paid £701,100 a year, more than twice the salary of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and thirty times the salary of a starting constable. Across 2024 and 2025 his total remuneration was £1.4 million. Some of the 145,000 rank and file officers his organisation represented were using food banks to feed their families.

On March 3rd 2026 the Police Federation publicly called for a minimum seven percent pay rise for officers, warning that morale and recruitment were suffering. The following morning Krishna was arrested by the City of London Police's Domestic Corruption Unit on suspicion of fraud by abuse of position. He has now been sacked. He will receive no further payments.

Before his arrest Krishna had used the Police Federation to do two things. Collect £1.4 million across two years. And punish officers who told uncomfortable truths about policing.

Rick Prior, the head of the Metropolitan Police Federation, was suspended in October 2024 after warning publicly that his members were increasingly nervous about challenging people from some ethnic minorities for fear of being labelled racist. His offence was stating precisely what the Henry Nowak case, the West Yorkshire Police sectarian policing story and the Rotherham and Rochdale grooming gang inquiries had all documented independently. Fear of a racism accusation was paralysing British policing. Prior named it. Krishna suspended him.

Richard Cooke was removed as chairman of the West Midlands Police Federation for posting a comment online disputing suggestions his force was institutionally racist. Krishna removed him too.

The High Court ruled both suspensions unlawful and a breach of Article 10 free speech rights. The Police Federation spent more than half a million pounds of its members' money defending the claim. Members who were using food banks. The man authorising that expenditure was collecting £701,100 a year and incurring legal costs exceeding £1 million in 2024 alone.

The problems were visible long before the arrest. In January 2025 Craig Hewitt, the Head of Civil Claims and National Board Member, resigned with a damning email exposing alleged long-standing financial mismanagement. A Tortoise Media investigation found that the federation had used 14 confidentiality agreements in settlements costing more than £700,000 and that multiple senior officials faced disciplinary proceedings after questioning Krishna's approach. Glassdoor reviews from employees described a toxic working environment and a marked increase in questionable dismissals and suspensions of very senior officials.

The pattern is now complete and precisely documented. A civilian management consultant with no policing background was installed as the first chief executive of the organisation representing rank and file officers. He suppressed the officers who named the two tier policing problem. He spent members' money silencing them. Warning signs of financial mismanagement were documented and ignored. And he was arrested the morning after his organisation demanded better pay for officers some of whom could not afford to feed their families.

"Across 2024 and 2025 Krishna's total remuneration was £1.4 million. Some of the 145,000 rank and file officers his organisation represented were using food banks to feed their families."

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Police Reforms Consultation – Results So Far…

“Where is the consultation with the officers & staff themselves? Equally important, if not more, where is the consultation with the general public?” https://t.co/IAI63ja4tG

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@FABSITEUK It could be you ☀️🤞☀️

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What does good police leadership look like?

I recently asked operational officers working early, days & late shifts.

Across two forces & various roles, here's what they said.

✍️https://t.co/X4RtrMgoAc

[Clifton Sellers @CliftonSellers]

Most people will quit

That’s your advantage

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“I’ve used your resources to get to SGT, Inspector & now Chief Inspector.  There’s no better proof that what you do works..." 👇

🚨Except the science behind rank success!

"I started to share your methods & Qs with other candidates going for it. I’m pleased to say the others also passed their board. As I go into my journey as a SGT, I’m going to keep my momentum going"
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Time to move on?

Aspire to promotion?

Then ...Beware the Specialist Trap! 🪤 https://t.co/RbBFidVqxl

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Charlie Munger’s life advice for young people:

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“Building a workforce with the intellectual & psychological aptitude necessary to work in an increasingly automated environment will be an important part of preparing policing for the future..as an aspiring leader what are your thoughts on this?"
https://t.co/RJ24dgGto3