Joe Bloggs

I'm always in the shit, it's just the depth that varies.

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@daveatherton I’ll take things that didn’t happen for…

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@history99917180 Looks like the one at Bushey (or used to be!)

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@darrengrimes This’ll be the same kids show narrated by a talking rat?

It isn’t a historical drama, it’s an educational comedy, children can tell the difference between costume and accurate depictions.

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Ok so how has @metpoliceuk recruited 1465 Police Officers, but lost 1381 Police Officers in the last financial year?

Let’s take a little deep dive and look into multiple contributing factors that have led us to this point…🤷🏼‍♂️

We’ll go back just over a decade to the year 2012. ⌚️

London is hosting the @Olympics 🇬🇧

In the build up The Met has deployed a team of Officers to escort the Olympic Torch safely around the country until it reaches the opening ceremony. It goes off without a hitch, in fact the only security issue for the Olympics is the company selected by The Government paid to provide security; @G4S have been a complete shambles and the military have to be brought in to supplement what is otherwise an excellent Policing plan.

Police Officers numbers are so good, you can’t join The Met in 2011 or 2012 and you can only just become a Special Constable.

The workforce is motivated as it has a big task ahead of it which everyone understands; protect the Olympic Games. We’re in a world prior to Social Media hysteria and whilst pay is still disputed, the Pension hasn’t been messed with.

The Met Police’s the countries most iconic event in decades without incident and is proud of itself. But not for long. Change is coming.

Somehow The Met owes the Government £450 Million, then Home Secretary Theresa May tells Policing nationally they are ‘Crying Wolf’ about Officer numbers and public safety and a short time later the pension is meddled with.

The retention problem begins. Those on the old pension realise if they stay, they’re going to lose money - drastically, so they begin to leave in their droves. Leadership aren’t worried though, there is a huge back log of applications from before and during the Olympics.

Numbers dip, but they’re bolstered quickly, however training isn’t what it used to be. Hendon has been sold, as are other ‘regional learning centres’. The training is sped up and delivered mostly on digital platforms - mandated by @CollegeofPolice 👀

Across London 2/3rds of Police Stations are shut, thousands of Police Staff; shift roster builders, case file builders, communications staff are all laid off, but their work still needs doing. So Police Officers step into the void. Taking more and more Police Officers off the streets.

To save more money, instead of 32 Policing Boroughs, they are merged into 12 super boroughs or ‘Basic Command Units’. The trials for this are catastrophic, but it achieves the objective of saving money, so it carries on.

Years of history and identity for those Policing London’s boroughs have been eradicated in the name of ‘efficiency’.

Retention is terrible. Thousands more leave and those that are joining are not all vetted properly.

Those who have stayed mostly leave Frontline Policing and move anywhere away from it that they can. The demand is ridiculous and stress off the scale.

The only reprieve comes briefly in the days after Terror attacks, where the public remember what we do so admirably.

Then a global pandemic hits. The Met must enforce garbled and complicated social distancing legislation that quite rightly inflames tensions with communities.

During this period, one of our own, not vetted properly; Kidnaps, Rapes and Murders Sarah Everard.

Every decent, hard working, Police Officer in The Met questions how the public will trust us again.

Then Commissioner Ma’am Cressida Dick is bullied out of Office.

Everything becomes a priority. The cost of living in London is a joke and Police Officers are overloaded with work to breaking point. @policeconduct too have taken it upon themselves to destroy faith in the disciplinary process.

And we wonder why we have a retention crisis when we’ve just been told to save £450 Million all over again…

#ThinBlueLine 🚨

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@RajSKohliexcop @InspGadgetBlogs The point here though is that you can’t rely on Intel to deal with the immediate risk. This is as much luck as it is skill by the officers.

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@leeharris Perfectly steady camera, clip starts mid incident. Almost like the confrontation was set up for click bait and the media attention.

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@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner A change of clothes?

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@Sargon_of_Akkad He pleaded guilty to several offences, none of which was “waving an England flag”.

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@AshleaSimonBF The fact people take these gross misleading simplifications seriously is staggering. 🤦‍♂️

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@PolicingInsight Genuinely curious as to what the expected benefit to having highly inexperienced officers over qualified and experienced officers is?

Show me another industry that takes such a bizzare approach.

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@thencshow @NatCoombs @Carlsonsports @NFL @NFLUK @NFLDraft @passyunkavenue @steelers @chargers @AtlantaFalcons @RamsNFL Still miss Americarnage!

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@history99917180 Well you don’t know what the pass mark currently is for a start.

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@RajSKohliexcop Social-economics and the history of migration?

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@kirkkorner @CourtNewsUK @OliverDowden You claim it was a no insurance offence. The screenshot suggests it was seized for unpaid parking fines?

Less credible with every single tweet.

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@WeAreFairCop Stalked her? They went to her house on one occasion and invited her to the police station for a voluntary interview. It lasted 25 minutes and two hours later they rung her telling her she was cleared.

Exaggeration marrs your trustworthiness.

[Joe Bloggs @ToolWithoutAUse]

@policeconduct @metpoliceuk @CPSUK @policeconduct but as you [should] know, assault by beating doesn’t need the CPS’ authority to charge.

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@gardainfo @Publicjobsie Should open recruitment to international transferees

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@AcrisureStadium @steelers Stadium name still sucks

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@UKCopHumour Mine is trying to work out if the crest on her hat is upside down.