http://200weeks.police999.com ...not long now... Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:10:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Daily Mirror were reporting this week that 99.99 per cent of cops are let of speeding tickets. A Freedom of Information application showed that police cars set off  speed cameras 107,000 times in the last year, but only 150 police officers received tickets. * Sarah Fatica from the road safety charity ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/932 I love the way the government spend waste my money. They decided that in order to stamp out passport fraud, the answer would be to arrange for people applying for a passport to have face-to-face interviews. 216,581 applicants have attended these sessions up until July 2008. The cost of introducing the scheme ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/929 If you really can't drive properly, it's best not do prove the point in front of other people. Take a look at the video & wait until the deed has been done for an appearance of a 'professional' witness. http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/918 Regular readers will know of my disdain in certain compensation claims where you can get a squillion pounds for hurt feelings & £2.50 for having your legs blown off. The MOD has just paid out £2.4million to a Kosovan man who was accidentally shot in the face by a British soldier. Six ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/926 Tick-boxes, targets & graphs. No, not the modern police force this time but Haringay Council's Child Protection Department. I didn't expect the senior executive to apologise regarding the death of Baby-P, after all, nobody in authority apologises for anything because an apology can be construed as an admission of guilt, but ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/923 I'm not sure if I'm normal amongst police officers or not. The thing is, I've never seen the Bill. Not once, ever. It occurred to me last night watching the BBC's Children in Need. The cast of the Bill did a musical routine in the form of a tribute to the ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/920 Welcome to any visitors from our farming community. I'm not sure where the link between farming & policing is but for some reason I've been recommended as a 'website you really must see' over  at the British Farming Forum. I expect that even farmers have some spare time to read other ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/915 Yes, You, PlanetPolice! Can you do whatever it is your system does to grab blog highlights to remove that bloody Brian's Brief Encounters from your aggregating system? It's the same bloody post which he's post-dated so it is grabbed up by your system every single bloody day & I'm getting really annoyed ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/913 I don't actually remember my first day in the job. I think it involved attending HQ & getting kitted out with uniform. I know we took the oath but I'm not sure if that was the first day or in the first few days. Anyway, after a week or two we ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/909 I love the Germans; they have great beer, they don't cross the road until the little green man flashes & they have a wicked sense of humour. Take the Chaos Computer Club. It seems the Germans have the same concerns over the introduction of identity cards & storage of personal data as ... http://200weeks.police999.com/archives/905