Well by some miracle i managed to pass my sgts exam which i sat in March this year. Quite a surprise as to be honest i didn't put as much time into it as i should have and was expecting to fail the exam.
Part of the reason being that i simply did not have the time to put into it. No time on shift to do revision, and not alot of time on my rest days or in the time off after shift. I always try and leave work at work and found it really hard to do work on my rest days. Kind of a work / life balance thing i guess.
So, great i thought, 5 years to become substantive but the flood of letters and emails from personnel etc wanting me to try and become substantive now but i don't think i have the experience to become a full skipper just yet. I did some cover while our skipper was on leave which i kind of enjoyed but was manic due to trying to do the supervisor role as well as crewing a response car and doing jobs.
I am glad of the break now to be honest, 5 days off with the bank holiday.
We had dramas in the last week with restructuring of the shift and being told we need to loose 2 officers off our shift to resource other shifts. Stressful is not the word id use to describe it! And now they turn around and change there minds........... Ahh consistency in the police, don't ya just love it.
We got some new forms the other day, for stop and account! And we had a training day on how to fill in the new form.
Apart from the fact our old forms were stop and account as well as a producer, we now have lost the producer aspect and need to go back to using the old HORT/1 books. All well and good but we will need to do both forms if we ask a driver to account as well as produce! Estimates put it at about 20 mins to fill in the new form.
I have restarted going to the gym again which is painful! And will be making another attempt at stopping smoking (attempt 6 in 3 years).
Another round of traffic jobs came up last month but not for the base i wanted to passed up on doing that one only to find out recently that anyone who passed the board will go into a pool to fill spaces at the base i wanted. Pissed off a tad i was, so looks like ill have another long wait to apply. I thought i was doing the sensible thing rather than getting posted somewhere miles away! But looks like i have shot myself in the foot here! Doh!
Back onto nights soon so looking forward to that and hope its a good set of shifts rather than the dross we have been dealing with recently.
Everyone and there dog has been calling recently wanting us to sort out their "issues". Although it bit someone who called us to tell of their 13 year old son but in the process both admitted assaulting each other which resulted in both getting nicked! Wont be making that call to us again to tell off kiddy for being stroppy. Although im sure that nothing will come out of the job.
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A look into the job of a Reactive Shift officer working in a mix of sleepy villages and nightmare towns. All names / locations have been changed and the views expressed are my own and not of the Police Service. Enjoy! (All views may not exactly reflect official policy)
3 comments:
I thought you didn't have to do a miss100 if you gave them a HORT/1, VDRS etc... as that in itself recorded the 'encounter'.
But what if you stop a vehicle acting sus.
If you do only the HORT/1 or VDRS then nothing goes onto the intell system.
So what we have been told is that if you ask a driver to stop and account then you need to do both the Miss100/a and a Hort/1 if you want them to produce.
Hi,
Nice post. Be a respected member of your community and become a police officer. Be done with sitting in a chair all day stapling sky-high documents. Be done with the boredom of replicating documents that do not even make much sense to you. Be done with the routine of waking up at 7am in order to arrive at the office by 9am. Join the police force and get a break from the routine that you call life.
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