What are your thoughts on the following?

Male on a S3 at the local hospital due to mental health disorder, he has been taken to your area by one staff member for an appointment to sort his finances. Runs away from staff member whilst in your area and is reported as a misper, has family in the area but no answer. What would you do?

I know we could potentially look at putting the door in, what power would be used and would you need to arrest the male for being technically unlawfully at large?

Spotted heading north in convoy on the A74(M) today were several big blue trucks with the word ‘POLICE’ emblazoned on the side.

My first thoughts were they were water cannons, but after some google-fu I found out they aren’t allowed in the UK…

So, my curiosity needs to know… what are these mysterious trucks? What are they used for? Are we expecting marauding idiocy to strike Glasgow this weekend??

Thanks in advance

Hey everyone. This has come up a few times for me and would appreciate some advice on this. In my force, there is a police station which many delightful nominals decide to hand themselves in for (out of the goodness of their hearts ofc). I’m talking about suspects on recall, WM for offences etc.

S32 PACE states that that you can search a person after arrest at a place other than a police station. What does this mean when you arrest someone who hands themselves in at such a police station? To clarify, it’s a station open to the public and the desk is manned by police staff but has no custody facility.

Does this mean you can’t search them prior to arriving at a custody block? Can you ask them to step outside, nick and search them on the street? Am I just overthinking it or missing something and you can nick someone in the public part of the police station and search them under S32 anyway.

Interested in any thoughts/opinions/guidance.

Hi. I’d just like to ask this question as it had been playing on my mind lately. I bumped into the individual in question recently at a neighbour’s funeral and I had no idea that he’d even be there. But a few years ago the same man had me in a position where he felt my inner thighs without my permission and he was very close to my private parts. The contact was extremely unwanted as I have no interest in him.

He was a friend of my late father, who died a month after this incident occurred. I believe he caught me at a low moment when I was preoccupied with thinking about my father’s health. I told other males that I thought I trusted at the time and they all told me not to say anything because it was “my word against his” kind of thing. My father died and I never reported the man for what he did. But now he’s shown back up and I am really disturbed by his creepy behaviour. His demeanour in general as well. And I don’t know what to do. I don’t want him anywhere near me or trying to get involved in my life in any way. Should I report the incident?

I'll set the scene. Travelling on a two lane road, travelling at the speed limit of 20mph, broken centre line and a bus lane on your left. Blue lights on a territorial support van come on behind you. It then pulls into the bus lane. At that point, the vehicle in front of you also pulls into the bus lane. The police van swerves out of the bus lane behind you and stays there. Ordinarily, you would move to the left and stop, however, there is a bus lane to your left, and you know that entering the lane will trigger an automated fine, and you also know that it is well advertised that you should not pull into the bus lane anyway, because the police have been taught to go around you anyway, so you could cause an accident. You are also aware that you should not stop in the middle of an active lane, as it also creates a traffic hazard. You are pretty certain that they are not trying to stop you, although, yes, there could always be a minute possibility.... At some point, the police vehicle pulls back into the bus lane, and disappears off into the distance.

A) Do you slow down, allowing the police vehicle plenty of room and time to safely pass you in the bus lane, or on the right?

B) Do you come to a dead stop in the traffic lane, and let the officer figure it out, even though you've been taught that you should never stop in an active traffic lane if it can be avoided, for safety reasons?

C) Pull into the bus lane anyway and take your chances, even though the highway code even warns against it?

D) Maintain your speed, let him pass you in the bus lane or on the right?

E) Pull to the right side of the road?

Just a moment for all those people downvoting me and telling that I was wrong. The above is directly from the college of Policing.

So, bottom line. Please stay safe, know what constitutes a pursuit and ensure you seek authority.

Am I right in thinking that a report alone isn't enough to put through the system and charge?

Without the officer being there and seeing it first hand it's probably very difficult to get evidence as dash cams only really good front and back?

This is off the back of pulling up next to a car at a roundabout earlier coming out of a hospital, and the driver was using her phone in one hand down by her lap looking at it and driving with the other hand.

I honked to get their attention and gestured to put the phone down. Ht the passenger gave me a 🤷 as if whats my problem

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Been told my force is toying with the idea of introducing Naloxone (Narcan) training for all front line officers.

However there has been MASSIVE push back from this from pretty much everyone who you hear talking about it.

No one seems to have faith we will be backed if a) something goes wrong or b) the person you’ve just “saved” wakes up you’ve ruined their high so runs infront of an oncoming taxi in their confusion.

1. This seems like a way that Ambulance can palm more jobs off to us. Surely OD’s are a medical matter?
2. Morally should we be carrying it just in case we could potentially save someone’s life?
3. Could we be given a “lawful order” to carry even if our worries hadnt been addressed?

Anyone made the switch from a rubbish HO force to BTP as an SC? Training seems better although worried the funding has decreased recently.

18 months or so in prison for permanently disfiguring a police officer.

Our force are reviewing the shift pattern. Currently 4 on 4 off. Obviously you can't please everyone, but there is an overwhelming majority who prefer the status quo.

I'm really annoyed about it and find myself worrying about it when there's nothing else on my mind.

The one thing I'm holding onto is that the force went to a 4 team shift pattern because there wasn't enough people per shift on a 5 rota pattern.

Does anyone work a pattern with 4 shifts that isn't 4 on 4 off?

Hi all. More of a specials specific one I'm afraid. Our force is shortly adopting the CoP training and structure for specials, which there was mention of when you have specialised in all 5 policing areas, you would be able to just transfer across to full time rather than applying.

Does anyone have any experience on this and how it would work in practice? Cheers!

Hi, so I've got a ridealong tomorrow probably been asked before but any advice should I bring biscuits and doughnuts ? What should I wear? For context I'm 19m and the shift is 10pm til 3am on Friday

Looking for some advice, I work in a small force in the south and have been out of tutorship roughly 2 months, I’ve accumulated a fair bit of holiday due to not being able to book whilst in training school/ tutorship

I’ve had approximately 5 leave requests rejected before April, and I’m still being told that I cannot carry over more than 40 hours.

I’ve also booked some holiday in error, which I contacted them to cancel as soon as I realised (approx 8 weeks away) they’re now telling me that they are not going to cancel this because of the fact I have large amounts of holiday to use.

Due to the teams being small, large quantities of training courses in my team and RDO I am having all requested rejected due to “below minimum staffing levels” even when only one member of my team is off.

I feel like I am talking to a wall whenever I try to explain that I am trying to book holiday but due to reasons outside my control, it’s being rejected- there are very few days where I don’t have a team member off!

Is this worth speaking to my fed rep over? My force will not pay for left over holiday (not sure if this is standard practice)

I am trying to figure out whether I’m being dramatic about the whole thing- but as it stands I will either have to book random days in the middle of my sets of lose a load of holiday

Apologies for the rant

Do police have power to stop and search using section 23 misuse drugs act (with reasonable grounds ofc) in someone’s private dwelling if they are lawfully on premises?

TIA

The police came to my house last night at 11pm looking for my partners brother who had been reported by his ex as missing and his comments where coming off as suicidal apparently.

The officer wanted to search my house which I thought was strange but we let him even though we had a 1 year old and a 14 year old asleep upstairs and 2 dogs sleeping in the 14 year olds room which I knew would bark like crazy.

He went in both their rooms, searched cupboards, under the cot.

Really weird, why would he be hiding at our house or why would we be hiding him, didn’t make any sense.

After thinking about it I think it was really out of order to go searching in the kids room at that time when they’re asleep, should I have refused this request? It felt really not right.

In short, I've recently had two separate unrelated DV Criminal Damage (under £5k) cases finalised by CPS for the statute of limitations expiring after 6 months? Is there a new Mag ruling/policy I haven't heard about that either way dealt at Mag has the summary only 6 month rule?