Why Calls Involving Naked People Can Be Deadly – How Police Should Deal With Acute Behavioural Disturbance
Have you ever been given training in Acute Behavioural Disturbance – also known as Excited Delirium? I hope so because attending an incident where someone is affected by this condition can be a life-changing event – for them, because approximately 10% of diagnosed cases result in sudden death, and, for you, through spending the next […]
National Three Peaks Challenge Raises £1131.24 For The Mat Ratana Foundation
Never did update you on this little adventure … Well, we made it – if a little over 24 hours if I’m honest due to a navigational mishap in the dark on Scafell Pike. Coming across that Free Palestine protest rally in the mist on the top of Ben Nevis was rather surreal … Standing […]
Yet More Modern Day Problems And Dilemmas For The Elderly Patrol Sergeant
Okay, what youngster is at hand to show me how to do something probably quite simple on the computer were it not for the fact that I have the memory of a fish … and is this the same officer who showed me how to do exactly the same thing only two days ago? Oh […]
Modern-day problems & dilemmas for the elderly patrol sergeant
Actually, what DID I just say then on body-worn video when it was all getting a bit tasty there …? Where’s the nearest piddle-stop when I’m out and about? And why do assistance shouts always come in when I have a full bladder? Have I got my reading glasses … prescription sunglasses … and those […]
Police Service Takes a Battering
The police service has, once again, taken a battering in the media over the last few days. My focus on this website is about the welfare of officers and so try to avoid getting involved in the politics around policing but this constant criticism can only – let’s face it – worsen the health of […]
National Three Peaks Challenge Raising Funds For The Mat Ratana Foundation
On August 7th, I along with PCs Neil Finden, Steve Chapman, Carl Ashby and Darren Smith from Margate Police Station, will be attempting the National Three Peaks Challenge in aid of the Mat Ratana Foundation. For those of you unfamiliar with the N3P, it will involve – in our case – setting out from Kent […]
Australian jailed for filming dying officers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56910687 A horrible story which demonstrates once more that if you are going to be killed in this job then the chances are that it will be as a result of contact with a fast-moving vehicle driven by an idiot. My commiserations to the families of the officers killed.
Police Constable Albert Alexander …
…And His Part In The Development Of The Antibiotics That Help Look After Us Today I feel we should take a few minutes to consider the experience of one of our departed colleagues. Imagine a life without antibiotics. Imagine this. It’s 1941 and you are a forty-four year old constable who develops horrendous staph and […]
Could Covid Vaccine Research Lead On To A New Cure For Cancer?
If there’s one glimmer of hope from this covid-ravished year of gloom, then it’s the advances made in RNA research used to create the vaccines. But is it possible that the vaccine discovery might only be the start of the benefits provided by this research? Could it also unlock new treatments for cancer? Talking with […]
Viva Las Vagus Nerve
Viva Las Vagus Nerve. You ever heard of the vagus nerve? No, nor had I until a few weeks ago but since learning how stimulating – or ‘toning’ – it could reduce stress levels then it has fascinated me. Oh, there was a noticeable could in that last paragraph … is our writer (could our writer be …) hedging his […]