Showing posts with label SecretPCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SecretPCC. Show all posts
Saturday, January 16, 2016

The party conversation that confirms it (Secret PCC)

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Picture the scene: Saturday evening drinks at my wife's cousin's place. Slim glass of pop in hand, cheese & chutney sandwich in ...
Friday, January 15, 2016

The Secret PCC: should I stand again?

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Well, well, well. It has been a long three and bit years. In a way, it has gone by as quickly as a South African innings. And here we are,...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

My Christmas Message: the Secret PCC wishes his girls and boys in blue an innovative 2015

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It's that time of year again: when we notch up another annual episode in our lives. I have been working exceptionally hard all this year...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Plebian correctness gone mad: the Secret PCC develops new ethical guidelines

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Of course in my day, back at the old alma mater, you could pretty well call the boys in the nearby village anything you liked... but not to ...
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Sepia policing: the Secret PCC hankers for the wild west

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Ah, dear diary, as I was rearranging the model police cars on my desk before my annual leave, I caught the beginning of an episode of Alias ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The Glossary: The Secret PCC is relieved

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I see that the HMIC have just published their analysis of policing in a cold climate . The report manages to be all things to all people: ev...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

Secret PCC: my life long quest for the smooth vinegar flavoured cucumber

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It's no good dear diary, I am going to have to write this down: being a PCC is all becoming a bit of an desparate anti-climax. Oh... I h...
Monday, June 16, 2014

The Art of Listening to the Public (the Secret PCC explains all)

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Although I have my doubters: I am very much a government for the people, by the people sort of chap (unless, of course, the issue is a tad ...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Chief Constable Zero: the Secret PCC gets tough

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After a very long and careful consideration of all the issues and consequences over a couple of macchiatos in Costa's last Saturday, I h...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Secret PCC: A LibDem MP considers applying for Direct Entry

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I chortled and guffawed this morning when the Chief Constable arrived at my door with news of some early applications for the Direct Entry S...
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

The 'not giving a floating duck' problem (Secret Diary of a PCC)

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Well, I am totally stuffed : not just by the turkey, fox & game pie but also by the Home Secretary and her velveteen apparatchiks in Mar...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

The magic of Brasso (Secret diary of a PCC)

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Well, here we are, just over a year in post and I am still here! I think that is some achievement. Some of my close friends said I wouldn’...
Saturday, October 19, 2013

Social media policy (Secret Diary of a PCC)

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I am becoming rather concerned that some of the social media accounts of several senior and other officers in the constabulary are becoming ...
Friday, August 30, 2013

Witchcraft: the Secret PCC & managing awkward Chiefs

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I am wrapped up with Lawyers today, so this is only going to be short post. But let it be known far and wide that these pesky Chief Consta...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Too big for their pixie boots: the Secret PCC makes a speech to his Police & Crime Panel

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Seems to me that the darn Police and Crime Panel are getting just a little bit too big for their statutorily small pixie boots. They have ha...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

By the pricking of my thumbs, something radical this way comes! (Secret diary of a PCC)

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Pish posh, this government is just not being radical enough! They are just being pusillanimous, pathetic and puny. If this country is really...
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Fields of ponies: the Secret PCC does Income Generation!

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Never one to be out done, I have decided I need to have an “Income Generation Strategy” . I see that one PCC is embarking on trying to get s...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

PCCs must show people its worth voting (interview with the secret PCC)

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Hah... spotted today that Tony Lloyd had been interviewed by Policing Today . I presume this is the start of a series, so I thought I would ...