Filipa Leite

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@onporter @TypeForVictory No you can’t. At least not an actual one bedroom, proper one bedrooms in most zones you referred at +£2000. Studios? maybe. And then also it’s not just rent. It’s council tax and bills. Council tax for one person is around £100 average.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@dieworkwear Boxy fit > slim fit. Always. For everyone.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_ Low numbers, public order abstractions… the usual

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_ Consider yourself lucky if you had three days. Usually it’s the day before or better at briefing with a ta-da you are working 12 hours today!

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

That line ‘Police Response Times will be Standardised and Measured’ has really got to me.

So firstly not all Police Officers can drive, let alone drive using Lights and Sirens. Most people don’t know that. They assume quite rightly that it would be a requirement like it is in most countries, but it’s not here.

Also unlike in most countries it’s not an offence to not move out of the way of an Emergency Vehicle responding to an emergency. The Highway Code tells you you’re obliged to give way, but it is not an offence for not doing so.

Emergency calls have three gradings:

Immediate - 15 Minute Response
Significant - 1 Hour Response
Extended - 24 Hour Response

They’re called slightly different things across the country but the timings are already ‘Standardised’. 👀

What’s not standardised is the Human Factors in the nature of Policing.

Just because I come on shift and on paper it says I have 30 Cops, that isn’t actually the case.

Four are restricted due to injury or other welfare reasons.

Six have been taken to AID another borough, most likely to Police a protest.

Eight are covering hospital guards, crime scenes and constant watches.

So you’re left with twelve Cops to cover a HUGE London Borough, all of the outstanding calls from the previous shifts, and the calls that come in as you start.

Those twelve Cops already have crimes to progress, but instead they are sent out to deal with and record new ones. They’re burnt out and work incredibly hard.

During the shift there’s a serious traffic collision so I lose another four Cops, four more make arrests, and another two are dealing with a serious domestic incident.

Now I’ve got two Cops left and they’re running to as many ‘I’ graded calls as they can and the @ukhomeoffice has just told them they will be ‘measured’ on their response times.

En route to one of the calls, they have a serious collision with a member of the public. They’re suspended from driving and are investigated. When asked why they were traveling at the speed they were, they mention ‘charter times’. The @policeconduct don’t care that there are charter times; public safety is more important, and for once they’re quite right. And surprisingly no one from the @ukhomeoffice is sat next to the Cops in their criminal interview defending them and telling @policeconduct how important ‘charter times’ are.

So from a lowly Response Police Sergeant, to Response Cops, Sergeants and Inspectors everywhere, our Cops get to calls as quickly as it is safe to do so, and they arrive alive. Not in a time frame set by people who have never and will never do or understand our job.

#ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@BuffaloRon Nope. Get the dog.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@bernjcc @JamJarOppo Sure is! It’s not a police car if it’s not 54’d.

[Chinook Crew Chick @chinnychick]

So having had no takers for my Falmouth weekend. I’ve decided, to pay it forward. If ANY POLICE involved in the riots, can get time off and want a getaway…then I would love to gift you a fully paid, double room, in dog friendly Greenbank hotel in the center of Falmouth this weekend. It’s Falmouth week so lots going on and the hotel is amazing! If any of my police followers can share amongst their network, particularly area south that would be greatly appreciated! 🙏@PC_ResponseCop @Brick_Cop @Sandford_Police @CopMoustache @HantsPolice @Ex_arv_sgt

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

There are no ‘extra Officers.’ 🤦🏼‍♂️

We are in a recruitment and retention crisis. 👀

These are Cops who are having rest days and annual leave cancelled. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Same number of Cops edging closer to burn out and leaving. 😔

That’s the reality of it all…🤔

The very #ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@MPS_n_P @frangipani2023_ Uau that’s just ridiculous. Love that we pay council tax (and I pay to Hackney 😂) and they use it by creating stuff like thinking spaces.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@MPS_n_P @frangipani2023_ Very true! Hackney in particular is quite brutal how the homeless and addicts and not looked after. Also a quick visit to the town hall and what used to be a place for beautiful weddings now it’s a camp site.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_ Hackney is slowly becoming the worst area to live in zone1-2 I think. Specially around Hackney Central. I dread doing big shops and have to go into the area.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

https://t.co/sNSruIun1A

[Justin Ng @justin_ng]

Lunchtime.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_ Can’t wait for the misuse of it to happen and the flow of assault claims to come through.

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@vernalscott Stormzy? Why is he in the collage?

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_ That is pretty! I will have a look out for that glitter for sure

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_ I shall have a look!!

[Filipa Leite @filipaleite]

@frangipani2023_ I do my own gels at home. I’ll have a look at Magpie never heard of it, thank you!