PC Republic Commando

Stumbling through life and fighting crime in a galaxy far far away. #team999

[Lee Broadbent @leembroad]

Brick cop is spot on here, and the reality is that increasing pay won’t fix this. There has to be a fundamental shift in how we approach the service we provide, by first focusing on the welfare and wellbeing of those who deliver it.

If you look after your staff, they will look after your business… something many CC’s and senior leaders have long forgotten.

[PC Republic Commando @pc_republic]

@JessicaMae50344 @checkmatetrain My email said roughly 10am onwards.

[Tom Gaymor 🎙️ @TomGaymor]

Last night I spent a shift with a @metpoliceuk ERPT team dealing with 999 calls. It is impossible to explain just how surreal an experience being out with these officers is, the officers are exposed to situations no one should see. Here are my notes from the opening two hours.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

NEW BLOGPOST: Two-tier justice? Cutting through the online myths

A cut-out-and-keep guide for the conspiracy theorists in your timeline.

https://t.co/RBPORQTCEi

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

Ok, let’s answer “Why don’t you deploy Cops in riot kit immediately when there’s disorder”…👀

It’s a very fair question and one Cops ask themselves frequently too! 🫡

So why do we often deploy Cops in their patrol uniform first?

To deploy Cops in ‘Code 2’ or ‘Kit’ or ‘Level Two Kit’ more commonly know to the public as ‘Riot Kit’ we need intelligence in advance. Intelligence that Officers are at significant risk of violence and that they need this PPE to protect them. Intelligence that there might be petrol bombs or flares or fireworks is relevant too because the kit is flame retardant. You may notice Cops wear this kit at significant sporting fixtures for this flare / flammable material issue. 🔥

There’s also the very significant factor that if it’s a spontaneous incident or protest there is limited time to gather that intelligence to plan and deploy Officers in their kit. 🙃

We also have a duty to de-escalate. That is directed by and comes from @CollegeofPolice who are directed by @ukhomeoffice. We are directed on what we can and cannot do in the Authorised Professional Practice (APP) given to us. Already sounding complicated isn’t it? We *have to* consider how the policing approach will affect different communities and whether a significant Police presence is more or less likely to cause disorder. 🤯

There’s also a resilience issue. In #London things are sometimes a bit simpler, we can have Officers on #PublicOrder duties in patrol uniform, and then Officers in Level Two Kit on standby nearby if needed. I don’t know how many Officers were on duty last night in Southport, but that kind of resilience takes a significant number of Cops. So to withdraw the Cops in patrol uniform and get them kitted up can be a complicated and lengthy procedure depending on where their kit is. 😅

Even more complicated, not all Cops are Level Two Public Order trained - it’s voluntary. So we have to take into account that some Cops will need to be withdrawn completely because they cannot wear or use the correct PPE. 🤷🏼‍♂️

The takeaway point here is we are duty bound to try and deescalate wherever possible and if we don’t, we are scrutinised, criticised and punished. 😔

I feel we could be better at communicating all this, which is why I try wherever I can to offer these explainers. ✅

#ThinBlueLine 🚨

[PC Republic Commando @pc_republic]

@hurley___4 Indeed. I do struggle to understand why such comments are made after his passing. Have we really fallen so far as a society that it’s okay to denigrate those who have given their lives? 😕

[PC Republic Commando @pc_republic]

I don’t really want to post this, but the amount of sniping at the officer who sadly passed away is not only disgusting, but unwarranted. Footage below shows another angle. Please consider the effects that these comments can have on the family and friends of the officer.

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” #ThinBlueLine 🫡🇩🇪🚨

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

Incredibly sad news, our colleague from @PolizeiMannheim has passed away from his injuries. 😔

Thinking of our Polizei colleagues and of course the friends, family & loved ones of the Officer. 🫡

We might be in different counties, but we face the same dangers.
#ThinBlueLine 🇩🇪

[Thames Valley Police @ThamesVP]

Sound on!🔊

Before you read on... this is 100% real and NOT a late April Fools joke! 🚫

Officers at our Roads Policing base in Bicester have been left a little confused this week, after finding out one of their resident birds has learnt to mimic the sound of a police siren! 🚨

[Tom Gaymor 🎙️ @TomGaymor]

THREAD 🧵 I’m often asked what my affiliation is to policing or what the reasons are behind tweeting about policing 🚓 Up until 10 yrs ago I knew little about policing, I consumed what we see/hear on news and anecdotally, but that all changed when I was invited on a ride along 🚨

[PC Republic Commando @pc_republic]

Excellent work.

[Essex Police @EssexPoliceUK]

'This is not Grand Theft Auto – this is controlled, effective armed policing'

Essex Police Chief Constable @BJH251 has praised the force's armed officers.

In the last year:

- 503 armed deployments
- 121 arrests
- Many lives saved

https://t.co/9yqIgSLSE6

[PC Republic Commando @pc_republic]

12 years old.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Two 12-year-old boys have been charged with murder after a man was stabbed to death in Wolverhampton.

🔗 Read more

https://t.co/rzQ3wWBxok

[Birmingham Police @BrumPolice]

#JAILED | Two of West Midlands Police’s ‘most wanted’ men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit nearly 70 burglaries, as well as an aggravated burglary on a vulnerable man, after a social media appeal led to their arrest.

More https://t.co/7XnG3d5VrO

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

“Hi BC, feel free to say no, you’re busy and it’s not exactly Police related, but my little one is really not well so I thought I’d ask.
Have you seen #Ahsoka and her 501st Clones? I hope that means something to you! Please can you make them ‘battle scarred’ after a fight with some ‘battle droids’, in a forest? I hope that means more to you than it does to me, here’s hoping you’re a @starwars fan! They’d love one of your builds as their iPad background that they have with them in hospital and I said I’d ask. Please feel free to say no!”

Done ✅ and some battle scarred Clones on their way to a new home too!

#BeKind always. ☺️ #Lego 📸💯💫

[Life of a Detective Inspector 💙 @SurreyDetective]

It doesn't matter how educated u are, what position u hold in the public eye, or what u think u would do watching from the side line. If u haven't had to make a split-second decision putting yourself in harms way for the public, you don't know what it's like #ResponsePolicingWeek

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

Rest in Peace Sergeant Graham Saville, formerly of the Metropolis and proudly of Nottinghamshire. #ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Chris Bentley @WYPF_GenSec]

Chief Constable led sacking hearing and shady vetting hearings leading to dismissal provides no assurances to the workforce that they will be treated fairly. Chiefs, like politicians, will react to public whim, not the immutable rule of law. I have no idea why anyone would... 1/x

[REMMY @remmy_308]

A sad day 😪

[PC Republic Commando @pc_republic]

@AnotherTweetCop Same at our nick, we’ve currently got 12 cars off the road…