Police Skipper

Response Sergeant in London 🚨 🚔 Response Driver, Taser, L2 Public Order. Opinions are my own. Please do not report crime here, dial 999 or 101 📞

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

If your force has a PC to Sergeant promotion process opening up I would strongly recommend taking a look at Rank Success…Steve and the materials he offers are absolutely superb. I struggled with getting my head around some of the CVF, preparing applications and the board…1/3

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@Brick_Cop @JonjayNeedham1 @ukhomeoffice Shocked but not surprised. All the best for the future 🫡

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@InspGadgetBlogs To be fair I’ve seen quite a few jobs going with 400+ applicants and only a handful of positions

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

Alright if @PFEW_HQ won’t say anything, I will.

I’m appalled by today’s outcome on behalf of our colleagues who responded and the investigating Officers who worked tirelessly to put the charges and files together.

I sincerely hope our injured colleague is being properly supported at this really challenging time and that an appeal is well on the way and a retrial will take place.

What I would say to you all, is what you already know.

We have a job to do. No one else will do it and if we give up, no matter how we’re treated then the most vulnerable will sincerely suffer.

So we keep working and we keep pushing in the naive hope that this horrible mess will sort itself out and never happen again.

Thank you all for what you did today and like my team, what you will do tonight to keep the public safe; take criminals off the streets and do what we joined to do.

We are the #ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@Brick_Cop @ukhomeoffice I’m looking forward to the ‘league tables’ 🙃 🤡

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@Brick_Cop @ukhomeoffice @metpoliceuk Very accurate 👌🏽

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

This is good news in theory as theft snatches have become an epidemic particularly in the city centre but as always, where are we getting the ‘extra’ officers to resource this?…

https://t.co/qpAxrHKj8b

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

One of the hardest things to defend is when we appear utterly incompetent. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Policing, surprisingly, isn’t easy.

Believe it or not you actually have to pass a number of exams before you’re allowed anywhere near the streets of London, or wherever it maybe you’ve chose to do this silly job.

You’re expected to learn *a lot* of legislation. For example the difference between a theft and a robbery.

A theft, is when you; dishonestly appropriate property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive it. Basically if you go up to someone in a pub take their pint out of their hand and neck it without their permission, theft is complete. Why? It was their’s, not yours, you didn’t ask if you could have it, you didn’t intend to give it back to them, so now theft is complete.

A robbery, is when force is threatened or used before or during a theft. *But*, not after a theft has taken place, as many a weary Detective Sergeant will happily tell you.

Say you’re nearly home and someone wearing a balaclava pulls up in front of you on an e-bike and hits you over the head and takes your phone, robbery. Or they pull up, shout at you to ‘give them your phone or they’ll hit you’ you don’t and a tussle ensues and they grab the phone and hit you on the head, robbery.

But, they take your phone, no force is used or threatened but you quite rightly call them a ‘waster’ or whatever six letter word comes to mind and then they come back and hit you over the head, that’s a theft and an assault, *not* a robbery.

The law is complex. And to progress a crime, the law must be consulted to confirm the points to prove, for the offence to be complete and to be investigated.

Now you’re a reponse cop. You cover a borough containing a couple of hundred thousand people, you are allocated 20-30 crimes to investigate, a week. So in a month you’re at or near a hundred.

You aren’t given time allocated to each crime, you have to manage your time alongside taking statements, finding exhibits, going to court, staffing up other teams, it’s pretty much impossible.

So the reason we have a 30 minute CCTV window, isn’t because we want one or want to let victims down. We simply don’t have enough Cops investigating volume crime and they don’t have the hours in the day to be as thorough as they’d like to be.

And that’s just ‘volume’ crime.

Don’t get me started on anything more complex.

But don’t worry, allegedly we once again owe the government £400 million, so I’m sure resourcing won’t be an issue any time soon…🤦🏼‍♂️

#ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@andyscott471 @AvantiWestCoast *you’re 🙄

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@andyscott471 @AvantiWestCoast Just convince yourself your sat in full L2 kit on a warm day 😂

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@grahamwettone I feel the forced 12 hour shifts are on the horizon!

[Brick Cop©️ @Brick_Cop]

We don’t have enough Cops on Response or Neighbourhoods anywhere, let alone for a ‘National Public Order Unit’ 🤦🏼‍♂️

#ThinBlueLine 🚨

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

Arrghhh. Cohort is a very annoying system 🙃

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@MatG235 @andyscott471 He’ll miss me! 😂 the office will definitely be a lot quieter without all his blah 🧘🏽

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@andyscott471 I might actually give that a try 😂😂

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

Something tells me it might be chilly on my Level 2 refresher 🥶

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@WecopsCaroline Cheers Gov! I have no doubt 😂

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@SgtMattB @metpoliceuk Only if you’re writing the H&S risk assessment for it 😂

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@WecopsCaroline @Cole_Jim_1 would be proud 😂

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@WecopsCaroline Brilliant 😂

[Police Skipper @policeskipper]

@WeCops A lack of time to give people what they really need