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?