Home

[Cockney Corner.]

Joseph Wambaugh's Lines and Shadows that is. I'd completely forgotten about that book until I saw the title here. I read it in the 80's and the issues are all over the news right now....

[Cockney Corner.]

Makes me realise just how densely populated England is. The county I police is also around 600 square miles but has 1.2 million inhabitants - and we don't even have any major cities. We frequently run out of officers to attend calls on week-end nights; our neighbouring force was in the news last week...

[Cockney Corner.]

Dr Martens shoes. They are hard-wearing and practical, shine up OK and you can run in them. You can also get them in steel toe cap - kick someone in the knee, you don't have to do any of that undignified wrestling on the ground. Which works well at work too.

[Cockney Corner.]

Our help and support for MH is pretty good and colleagues are genuinely understanding when an officer, as we say round here, "goes wibble" (suffers a breakdown or can't cope). Regular screening is restricted to certain roles - such as those that necessitate access to indecent images of children...