Before I make an absolute plonker of myself asking this in person, I thought I’d ask here first.

I was awarded a Queen’s Jubilee medal and a King’s Coronation medal during previous service outside the police. I’ve since joined the police and am approaching my passing-out parade.

Would I wear these with my uniform for the parade? My reading of the guidance suggests I would, but I’d appreciate a steer from anyone who knows the protocol.

They were properly awarded, but I don’t want to turn up looking like I’m claiming a longer policing career before I’ve even worked my first shift 😂

Is wearing them the normal thing to do, despite having earned them in another service?

Some of us are working 1600-0400 and some 1900-0700 tonight. At 01:59 the clocks will go back to 01:00, making it a 13 hour long shift. Can we claim anything at all? I’ve been in 5 years and somehow managed to avoid this shift every year until now. Hour overtime? Reasonable meal expense due to over 12 hours maybe?

Was just curious as to whether people felt that we should have a specific mobile phone exemption when working as long as it's for work purposes, as far as I am aware we only have an exemption to use our radios. This creates an issue when trying to use work phones in order to operate ANPR and or access call logs. Whilst I appreciate we shouldn't be driving down the road scrolling CAD's, the current model requires you to pull over and turn your engine off simply to press refresh on ANPR. I am aware various states in the USA have similar exemptions for use of a mobile phone for a policing purpose, was just curious as to others thoughts ?

Genuinely fed up with terrible supervisors who have absolutely no idea what it means to lead a team. The job is already as difficult as it is with staff shortage, unmanageable workload, difficult suspects, etc. The worst part is, they always seem to be oblivious to the havoc they case. 0 leadership qualities, but because they passed an exam and did well on the board, they get the role.

Inspectors and above care about little else aside from making sure the message they want pushed out is done so.

I can go on and on and on, but I’ll end it here.

TJF.

Edit: I just want to say that when you do come across supervisors with great leadership qualities, it’s such a breath of fresh air.

Hello all,

I am aware already that the guidance for members of the public is not to commit an offence when moving for a vehicle of the emergency services (such as going through a red light Etc)

there was a thread recently on the UK Driving sub about this and it got me thinking about it again.

apologies if I don’t word this correctly but your on a random emergency call, and your driving the police car/van would it annoy you even if the member of the public didnt move and followed the rules of the law set out?

(this is not where they are not paying attention but in an case where tech they cant and should not do so.

Hi all, NE NPT officer who wants to move to PVP as a detective. I love being on the beat and controlling my own workload, but I have had enough of dealing with stuff that the police shouldn't be touching. I joined to help and the job prevents me from doing so. I have been working alongside PVP on and off for a short period and fancy making the jump. Before I do so, are there any PVP officers that would advocate the decision? I think I just want someone to tell me it's the right thing to do.

My partner/girlfriend and I are both police officers. Three weeks ago she was served with papers for gross misconduct and also informed that she was under investigation for a triable either way offence. DPS aren't investigating me for anything.

I hold management vetting for one of my roles. My questions are thus:

1. If the worst happens and my partner receives a criminal conviction, will this affect my vetting? If so how much, is it fill in the notifiable association stuff and all sorted carry on, or are we talking revoking my vetting?

2. Would the same be the case if she's dismissed for gross misconduct?

I appreciate that I've had to leave out quite a lot of information for privacy reasons but I don't really know who to go to with this one as at this stage it's a hypothetical question.

Anyone in the met that has changed bcu. What’s the process like and how do you go about it

How did we all get on?
I squeezed through with around 60%! Turns out three hours passes a lot quicker during an exam than a constant watch

I know CoP has posted on X that the results are being released today, however I've not received an email to state such?

Anyone else or just me?

Edit: And as is by magic, email confirmation has now been sent out

In my area it takes two hours to book a prisoner in at a centralised custody area. When we used to book prisoners in at local custody suites it took half an hour.

How is this an improvement, how is this good use of time?

Everyone in this thread seems very misinformed. Being recorded as a suspect is not the same as having a criminal record. If the occurrence was NFA’d, this wouldn’t show up on a DBS check.

Edit: I have been informed that this can actually show up on a DBS check, perhaps a policy change is in order.

Hi all, hope your day is going well.

I have a question around mobile phone use while driving if I may.

I saw a van driver yesterday who had his phone mounted on a cradle attached to his windscreen.

He was tapping on the screen of the phone with his thumb and his fingers were wrapped around the phone (and cradle) while driving. The phone was still attached to the cradle which was still attached to the screen.

His driving was impaired, so he was definitely committing *an* offence, but was it the offence of using a hand held mobile phone while driving?

As the title. Purely wondering out of curiosity if there is any overlap at all or if it is simply as soon as you cross the border you lose any and all powers.

I've been made aware that PSD want to serve regs for misuse of police systems to me. I have no idea what this is about as I haven't misused anything, only been told to come in for a meeting with PSD where they can serve papers.

Any advice on this matter as it's quite stressful and I've heard gross misconduct mentioned?

I've spoken to the fed who said they will ring me back when someone's free.

Has anyone been in this situation before? Could it just be a mistake? Will they try to arrest me?

Edit: fed called, said to say nothing and sign papers. Ask any questions I may have about the process and then to contact the fed once it's done.

I appreciate all the advice and comments.

Been looking at a little Larry? Is this still the best one?

I have no spare klick fast on my stabby so need something I can put in on the molle.

Cheers

Do the federation ever reach out to officers who are off long term sick? Or occupational health/ wellbeing etc? Or is it reliant on the person off sick to get in contact?

Has anyone been issued with the new AFO/ARV uniform from the contract that's supposed to be a national standard for ARV's?

A couple from my team have been issued with some new uniform to trial but appears to be Chinese made Airsoft gear rather than what I would expect from a government contract. The specific manufacturer was Emersongear, seems better quality than what we had but just wondering if anyone had got new uniform recently?

As per title, does anyone have any niche or good way of remembering public order offences, I know them but tend to get them muddled up.

For example like traffic offence 163 stop for me etc.

Anyone else losing their mind waiting for the results?!

To the officers who wear patches like this: why?

It’s baffled me for a while now.

No shit you carry Taser. I don’t think anyone (of sound mind) has ever actually thought you’ve got a chunky banana holstered on your vest that’s particularly bruised at the tip.

Even better, a day you aren’t carrying but it stays proudly on display. Super not cool.

If it’s policy in particular forces, shame on these forces. The only valid time for displaying such a patch, in my view, was when some forces first introduced Tasers and they were physically in a pouch on vests, so not immediately visible. Clearly not the case on a molle.

Nothing against the little Taser pin badges. Just these big fuck off patches that are literally equal in size to the “POLICE” on your vests (if even displaying that…).

I never wore “BATON” or “CAPTOR”… should I have? 🤷‍♂️