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These boots were made for walking…
No mighty tempest was going to put the Walsall Police Walking Club off a trip to the Peak District! As you may have noticed previously on this blog, us police officers are an adventurous lot. Last year...
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All these things that I’ve done…
Offences can stay on a criminal record no matter how long ago the trial. How are criminal records treated and who needs to disclose what? On many job application forms you’re likely to see some...
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All the things I should’ve said that I never said, all the things we...
Christmas can be a busy period for our Family Liaison Officers but what exactly is their role? In this specially written article marking the start of our Christmas Drink Drive Campaign, WMP Family...
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The near and the dear ones, the old and the young…
We’re now four days into our annual Christmas drink and drug drive campaign and with every patrol car in Walsall and across the West Midlands carrying freshly calibrated breathalyser kits, our...
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I feel like they’re talking in a language I don’t speak, and they’re talking...
It can be hard to follow us police officers sometimes. What are we talking about, over? The other day I was out pushing a panda around my default patrol area. The RADS at WS saw from ARLS that I wasn’t...
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Every word handwritten…
Statement taking has moved on a long way since the Middle Ages. We rarely use quills for one, what does it mean to give a statement to the police though? For us police officers with our uniformly...
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All I want for Christmas…
Stuck for Christmas present ideas for friends and family? How about giving a copy of our fraud book? It’s what every seven year old dreams for! A modern classic. Harry Potter meets Fifty Shades of Grey...
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Communications breakdown…
Another excellent bit of twittering from Solihull Police. How are the CPS advising decisions be made when social media is misused though? What would be a realistic approach? As you may have noticed if...
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You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout – I’m telling...
Christmas is just around the corner, are you prepared for a ‘reverse burglary’ by Santa Clause though? Read on! Christmas time is here. Check out www.isitchristmas.com tomorrow and it’ll confirm as...
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Memories are made of this…
What were my highlights of 2012? The below blog tells you, this caption doesn’t. There we go then, 2012 is pretty much out the way. The Queen ‘Jubileed’, the Olympics were brilliant and to top it all...
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A neighbor’s blessed burden within reason, becomes a burden borne of all and...
Arresting folk can only achieve so much, hence why working with partner agencies such as the Kickz Football Project is so important to us. Oh, how I do love arresting people. Apply the cuffs, say...
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I read in the papers there are robbers with flashlights that shine in the...
Police dog puppies are amongst the cutest known to man. Do they stay cute though? No they do not. How do they help us officers though? There’s a good chance that 2013′s batch of police dogs are the...
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Words they meant nothing, so you can’t hurt me…
Should you be convicted for calling a police horse gay? Many think not and the law is a-changing accordingly (Image from Arriva436) Hello there, stupid. Concord called – it would like its nose back...
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The streets here at home had rapidly filled up with the whitest of snow…
One of our fleet’s older but more important vehicles, especially when the snow flakes are falling. How does the cold weather impact on our work though? In case you haven’t picked up on it, some snow...
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When you try your best but you don’t succeed…
Lance competed in a world where there was a great pressure to take drugs, are there parallels elsewhere? (Image from Hase) I’m not angry with you, Lance, I’m just disappointed. Years of refuting...
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This is my investigation, it’s not a public inquiry, I go checking out the...
A Day In The Life – Parading at Bloxwich Police Station, Saturday January 26th 2013, Tour of Duty – 09:00 to 18:00 As you may have noticed from a few mentions here and there on my ‘officially endorsed’...
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Changes are taking the pace I’m going through…
Senior officers have always started on the beat before working their way up, direct entry proposals may end this tradition but should proposals for reform really cause so much controversy? As things...
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I see a darkness…
Via West Midlands Police Appeals for Help - Police officer dies after being assaulted while off-duty A POLICE officer has died in hospital after he was assaulted while he was on a night out off-duty in...
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There’s always another point of view, a better way to do the things we do…
Heroin addiction can be a horrible affliction, a little understanding can go a long way to helping address the issue. (Image from Psychonaught) It was one of the strangest prisoner interviews I’ve done...
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Idiot, slow down…
Just a quick post this and one I’ve decided to pick up on for two reasons. Firstly, the video is part of a witness appeal that we’re making to identify the driver of the black Audi. The collision...
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