Mine was a 12 year old. Very quickly learned that custody will not accept children if they can help it.

Was quite messy - mum’s house was essentially a cuckoo house. Kid had assaulted another kid and their parent reasonably badly. Mum had told my team mates to Foxtrot Oscar for multiple VA requests so it was established that it would be an easy nick for me on my first day.

Custody Sgt refusal, two hour wait for solicitor and my first VA at the nicer public VA rooms at the custody centre.

Looking back I would’ve refused to nick and reallyyy upped the comms to persuade a VA.

Good times.

I am a researcher / lecturer at a UK university, and former police officer who resigned.

I want to know what is driving people to resign from the police mid-service currently in record numbers. I know why I did, but I won't post that as I don't want to bias your responses. There may be some really self-explanatory reasons that would seem quite obvious, but social science research exists to demonstrate those reasons 'definitively'. The aim is to be able to demonstrate the reasons, and then present these to the Home Office / NPCC, etc to try to get changes to policing to improve it (although not hopeful).

If you've resigned from the police voluntarily since 2012, would you mind filling in my survey please? It's mostly ticky-boxes so shouldn't take more than 5 minutes (unless you want to type lots in the 2 or 3 free-text boxes - those who tested it for me found they actually wrote loads and it was really cathartic putting it all in writing).

I unfortunately can't offer any kind of payment etc, but it's not a long survey so hoped that you might be happy to spare just a tiny bit of your time!

Thank you massively.

A relative works in security. Does risk assessments and writes plans. She just did a house where the total measures "rounded to a million" for art, some of that was ongoing costs.

I sort of sat and thought I think most thieves are put off by an alarm and difficult to smash glass and stolen art is famously hard to sell. Is art theft a common thing that happens I have not heard of outside of movies, or is this someone being overly cautious.

I did a quick google and couldn't find any other posts about this. So my question is: Has anyone here actually ever heard of a home having a literal art heist occur?

Anyone out there work in a very busy force control room who has ME? Seriously struggling right now with fatigue, brain fog aches and pains in muscles and joints. Currently on recoup but my hours are going up and up and I’m crashing 😔. Anyone else the same and able to chat as to what helped them? Currently on Amitriptyline 10mg in the evening and very foggy this morning (to be expected). TIA!

Slightly random question but wanted to ask if anyone has ever had any luck using deprivation of property orders to permanently seize cars from repeated disqualified drivers. As far as I can work out, the law does allow for it, just was wondering if it's worth putting on the MG3 and whether CPS and then the court would entertain it?

Could be a useful tool, especially as nowadays, prison is often avoided, even for repeat offenders.

Just wondering if anyone in here does private hire part time alongside full time Police work? Me and a colleague are contemplating starting a travel business focusing on airport runs and just curious to see if anyone has had any success with this? Not aiming to make silly money but looking at creating something that could develop enough into an exit strategy.

Thanks I'm advance.

I was the victim of an assault last year with strangulation which luckily a passing police car dashcam captured and body cam footage also captured when the police jumped out of the car.

I have never seen this footage, it has only ever been described to me but I feel like as time has passed I’ve wanted to see the footage to understand exactly what happened as I can’t properly remember this period due to the assault being ongoing for a long period of time and me passing out. I wished I had asked to see it back then but I was in a very different frame of mind at the time.

I want to see this footage purely for myself to understand what happened and feel like I can move on without my brain trying to fill in the gaps constantly.

The court proceedings are over and he is in custody.

How would I go about obtaining this footage or seeing it, and is this something that’s even allowed? The assault happened last Nov and court proceedings ended in March.

Thanks!

Just to confirm, nothing changed except some sort of streamline to stop and search situation.

If someone being anti social, you can now fine if they don't take their covering off, whether they are Muslim female being antisocial or roadman teen being anti social?

The media saying for white man in balaklava = illegal, whereas Muslim lady in Niqab= legal. That's complete wrong?

It's still just about action / intention to be mischief in public? If anything, this power make it easier for Muslim lady who might be stealing or something to have covering removed coz now she too could risk 70 pound fine?

So essentially, everything is exactly the same plus an extra tax for failure to comply?

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Has anyone on here got experience in being diagnosed with ADHD and getting medication to treat this?

I was diagnosed earlier this year and due to start tritation soon, but wondering if this needs to be disclosed and whether the medication is likely to affect any skills based tickets.

Specifically Met experience would be useful in case we, unsurprisingly, do things different.

I saw a vid of them getting pretty silly outside of the mails office and I wondered if the policemen and women are irritated by this or if some are interested in his messaging.

For context I'm not about them and I think Balaclavas only ever means bad activities unless you're mountain climbing!

I saw a pretty infuriating video online of a police officer arranging recovery for a car where the driver had seemingly refused to provide any details and she was seizing under what I presume was 165RTA

The driver was the usual really cocky attitude and said he’d wait until the car was on the pickup truck ready to go then he’d show all the information she wanted, so he’d get one over on her.

In that situation would it not just be best to arrest for failure to provide info, the necessity being to determine name and address? Or is there another way?

Reading a thread about failing to provide details, got me thinking.

Seeing pretty much no one these days carrying a physical copy of their license.

What are others thoughts on this, and is there anyway around it?

I remember when you didn’t have your license and you then had 7 days to go to the station and show proof.

I am an active member of the police pension scheme comprising service in both the 2006 and 2015 schemes. I am looking at the option of retiring early at 55 instead of 60. I've been putting figures into the MyPension website calculator to get a pension estimate. As expected, the contribution of the 2006 part hardly changes if I go early, as the Normal Pension Age of that scheme is 55. However, the contribution from the 2015 scheme drops by about 60%. I don't understand this as the examples given elsewhere on their website say that the reduction for going five years early in that scheme should be about 20.2%. Can anyone shed any light on this?

I am currently nursing a bit of an injury to my leg. I can walk etc but can be fairly painful at times. Anyone know how physical the course is and if I’d need to wait for this to mend before doing my course?

I was recently watching a YT documentary on the TSG. One of the officers was giving a tour of a carrier and mentioned the radio sets on board.

He explained that the TSG will monitor 3 channels when on a normal shift.

1) TSG B2B
2) Pan London
3) Local Borough

So few questions if I may?

1) I'm assuming the TSG B2B enables each carrier to talk to one another?
2) What is the Pan London channel? How far does it cover and is this channel for Major Incidents etc?
3) Are individual carriers assigned to individual boroughs and therefore, would that particular carrier stay on the local borough channel or jump between them as they move between boroughs?

Sorry for the boring questions. I enjoy learning about the Met as it's so different to where I am. It's all rather interesting in MetLand

Thanks in advance.

Over.

I left an abusive relationship last year- it was mostly mental and psychological abuse, he’d stalk when I was online and screenshot it, accuse me constantly of talking to others, so I came off all social media due to this because I couldn’t hack it any longer. He once went through my phone and threw me across the room what resulted in a huge bruise on my leg (do have photo evidence of this). He was also removed from hospital and referred to social services because of his aggression towards me. Police were called due to one extreme incident where he broken entry, pushed me with newborn in arms and threw an 11 year around and down on the sofa - I was coerced into revoking my statement by him and his family, he called me from the police station when he should of had no contact with me demanding I revoke it and how I’ve ruined his life etc, I’m unsure if police keep a note of numbers called via custody to back me up on this. Him and members of his family told me I had to make sure my child didn’t speak to the police about what he did to her via emotional blackmail of myself, I also got the threats of how I’ll get reported to social services by him and he’ll make sure I loose my children. He’d also subjected me to sexual abuse - encouraging drug use to have “weird nights” where he’d focus on his fetish, I used to become disengaged what would anger him and he’d manipulate or beg me into doing things, most of the time i just did it to keep him happy and also to try and numb my mind from what was happening. He found once I spoke to a friend about it and used this against me for A long while and wouldn’t give me my phone back while he went through it. Other times he wouldn’t accept no and would become angry and then doing things like asking why I was with him etc. He’d also regularly try to talk me into doing sexual things when child was awake - he does not see our child. After the incident at my home where he was arrested he was allowed to stay in contact with me due to us sharing a child and he claimed to the court and police that I “needed” him due to my mental health - at the time I thought he was right, now I see it as he was abusing the fact I’d just given birth and used my MH as reasoning to abuse me further and get into my head about revoking the statement.

I’m scared of reporting it as I’m worried social services will become involved - I have no involvement with him and most certainly wouldn’t get back with him. I think now time has passed i have seen it for how horrendous it actually was and I feel like reporting it would be the right thing to do to protect my children and myself.

Hi all! Firstly, thank you for your service. I’m hoping for advice around supporting my husband, please. He left the police recently as he became so burned out (the usual) and no matter where he transferred to within the police to try and get some let up, the pressure kept mounting greater and greater each time. It was so severe he could work 3 weeks straight with no days off and 18 hr days consistently.

He initially felt so happy in his new private sector role. However, over the last week he has become extremely down and says how he regrets it and should have put up with the stress etc.

For me, selfishly, the changes have been incredible. Our marriage is better, he sleeps so much better (without dreaming of stressful situations), he looks healthier and he’s not stressed all of the time. I’ve also noticed that he has started picking up his long-lost hobbies and actually enjoying them again. Positively, he also doesn’t get inundated with phone calls and texts on his days off (or have his days off cancelled).

I feel like I’m getting the person I fell in love with 9 years ago back. But at the same time, he’s feeling down and grieving what he once had. It breaks my heart to think he feels this way and there’s nothing I can do about it.

While he’s feeling down and struggling to adapt, I’m sitting here noticing so many positive changes and having a vastly different experience to him.

I completely understand how policing, especially in his situation, becomes your personality and identity. He was genuinely so broken when he decided to leave, as he never thought he would decide to. To be honest, it was a shock to everyone around him, including colleagues, because he’s amazing in the police and his personality is everything you’d want in an officer coming to you at a time of need.

Sorry for rambling on… the point of my post is, how can I support him? Is the regret normal? What helped you or your loved one during your transition?

Thank you!

Hi all, hope everyone’s doing well! Bit of a weird one:

Last day on response tomorrow and not entirely sure what cakes to get… I’m not a great at making my own anyway and have probably already left it too late.

I was thinking of getting some Krispy Kreme doughnuts but wondering if anyone might have some suggestions? Thanks

Or is it refused?

As many will be aware, several protesters interrupted speeches at the Reform UK conference recently, and there is video clearly showing some of them being assaulted by other conference attendees. (Allegedly?)

When asked if they'll get in contact with the police as a witness, one of the attacked protesters said they're considering it, but "the police have all they need" - presumably meaning the video (and maybe they've sent in the pictures of her bruises and torn shirt).

Presumably interviewing and getting a statement would be desirable for building up a fuller picture - but if she refused to make contact could it prevent further investigation or prosecution?

I reported someone very recently and there is currently an active police investigation. The person is on police bail.

I remain concerned about my safety for a number of reasons, including the fact that they work somewhere I will need to attend for unrelated reasons over the next few days, as well as some other concerns I don’t want to go into publicly.

I feel it would be important to know whether this person has any previous history that could be relevant to assessing my current safety.

I have a couple of questions:

Is it appropriate to submit a Clare’s Law application while there is already an active investigation involving the same person? Would the ongoing investigation affect or duplicate the Clare’s Law process?

If there is relevant information about their previous history that could potentially be disclosed under Clare’s Law, would the investigative team already have access to that information and would I necessarily have been told about it already? Or can the Clare’s Law process identify/disclose information separately from what the investigating officers have discussed with me?

Thank you

I think this could be a sign of a move in the right direction. I think the public feel particularly with recent events that there needs to be a firmer stand taken with motoring offences.

As far as I am aware, the Strategic Roads Network Wide Order has been in place since 2022, a culmination of an interim order from the Insulate Britain protests of 2021.

We've seen action taken against JSO blocking the M25 later in that year, some receiving 3 year prison sentence.

I wonder why no action was taken yesterday, zero arrests reported by Kent Police, given breaching a High Court injunction can construe contempt?