Missing the game September 9
After the chief made it back from London this week he was fuming
that the Tube strike meant he missed his train and didn’t get to see
the England match.
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It’s just not cricket September 2


The cash flows of illegal business never cease to amaze, some of our
criminals seem to be wallowing in assets; holidays, houses, jewellery,
you name it. Money to burn it appears, let’s hope they spend it on
Ferrari 458s which are likely to be just as combustible.
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Shine a light!
It is at times like these that you realise that we are so fortunate to live in the UK; as someone who has coughed up for the victims of the floods in Pakistan, I realise this was just one of a number of disasters around the world over the past week.
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Monopoly it is not August 19
The Met come in for a lot of stick for the amount of money it
spends on everything; from protection officers staying in the most
luxurious hotels around the world to the amount it costs to keep chief
officers in accommodation. But I would like to be a fly on the wall of
the next authority’s resource committee meeting when they discuss ways
of cutting budgets.
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I thought you meant a VW Golf skip August 12


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Beeping Blackberrys August 5
A friend of mine is a staff officer in Leicestershire where the senior
officer team has suddenly been taken over by former Hampshire ACPO
officers. Leicestershire does seem to be attractive for a number of
senior officers, our ACC is applying for the deputy’s job there too.
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Small talk costs jobs July 29
Was it just that ‘National Policing Improvement Agency’ was too long a
name or its acronym made the alphabet soup a little too thick?
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No smoke without fire? July 22
Did anyone try getting hold of ACPO last week and couldn’t get through? The chief did but to no avail. A call to a mobile, however, found cafes filled with senior officers evacuated from 10 Victoria Street due to a fire alarm.
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Robben my benefits July 15
When I was watching the World Cup final on Sunday, I wasn’t aware that
the English referee was actually a sergeant from South Yorkshire Police
on a career break. Doesn’t he know that the years’ service before
pensions are changed are going to be so valuable?
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A dummy’s guide to savings July 8
The chief came back from his jaunt to the annual ACPO bash, from where
I asked him to fetch a doggy bag of the best lobster and strawberries
dipped in chocolate he could find. Needless to say, all he brought was
a pack of mints he was given by an exhibitor and then he didn’t share.
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