Plod
@policemanslot.bsky.social
Full time police officer, part time social worker, psychiatrist, marriage guidance counselor and dog whisperer. Godwin's Law is not justicable.
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Firmly agree. It applies to all sorts of services too — when I spoke to crime victims about communication from the police/CPS, they really emphasised how frustrating and distressing it was to not know where your case was in the process or who was responsible for it at any given time.
I strongly believe every service that requires people to wait should beef up their information provision, whether it's waiting on the phone to a call centre, or on a waiting list for medical treatment. I'm sure it would manage people's expectations, reduce anxiety, and reduce incoming questions.
December 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Firmly agree. It applies to all sorts of services too — when I spoke to crime victims about communication from the police/CPS, they really emphasised how frustrating and distressing it was to not know where your case was in the process or who was responsible for it at any given time.
'Director Reiner'?
Who the hell speaks/writes like that? Is this some weird Americanism or an AI artifact?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who the hell speaks/writes like that? Is this some weird Americanism or an AI artifact?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
'Director Reiner'?
Who the hell speaks/writes like that? Is this some weird Americanism or an AI artifact?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Who the hell speaks/writes like that? Is this some weird Americanism or an AI artifact?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Research(er) question: has any research been done on the dynamics/motivations/decision making around police asking (or not) for people to provide their self-defined ethnicity in the context of stop and search in particular, but otherwise other uses of police powers? Thank you.
December 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Research(er) question: has any research been done on the dynamics/motivations/decision making around police asking (or not) for people to provide their self-defined ethnicity in the context of stop and search in particular, but otherwise other uses of police powers? Thank you.
I'm not saying the youngsters do not understand the old ways, but one of them just asked me where the 'printing machine' was.
December 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm not saying the youngsters do not understand the old ways, but one of them just asked me where the 'printing machine' was.
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My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
December 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.
It would be nice if 90% of my conversations with my rabbi weren't: me telling him that someone has murdered Jews as they prayed, him tell me that someone has murder Jews as they prayed, or use discusing how to stop someone murdering our congregation.
December 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It would be nice if 90% of my conversations with my rabbi weren't: me telling him that someone has murdered Jews as they prayed, him tell me that someone has murder Jews as they prayed, or use discusing how to stop someone murdering our congregation.
New career goal: make a Superintendent come and search a ship with me
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2...
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2...
www.legislation.gov.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
New career goal: make a Superintendent come and search a ship with me
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2...
www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2...
There would also be 25% fewer police officers in my unit.
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
There would also be 25% fewer police officers in my unit.
But we are perfectly willing to grant her the title of 'No. 1 Laughing Stock of the United Kingdom for Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.
Wow. Everything, from font to seal to layout, is an attempt to brand her as a former President. 56th Prime Minister? We don't do that.
December 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
But we are perfectly willing to grant her the title of 'No. 1 Laughing Stock of the United Kingdom for Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.
'It was the other bloke who definitely didn't break the law, officer'
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
'It was the other bloke who definitely didn't break the law, officer'
Mum! They're doing it again...
Dear BBC Radio 3,
You wouldn't play Hark the Herald Angel Sing in June. It's no less jarring for you to play Bruch arrangement of Kol Nidre in November.
Regards,
Plod
You wouldn't play Hark the Herald Angel Sing in June. It's no less jarring for you to play Bruch arrangement of Kol Nidre in November.
Regards,
Plod
November 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Mum! They're doing it again...
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It's so striking, when you use the NHS regularly how some bits are total choas with staff run off their feet and rhen others are clearly overstaffed with few patients. Not much rhyme or reason to it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It's so striking, when you use the NHS regularly how some bits are total choas with staff run off their feet and rhen others are clearly overstaffed with few patients. Not much rhyme or reason to it.
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A mate of mine went to culinary school. He said that when he interned in restaurants cooking French food the chefs were scooping literal handfuls of butter into individual dishes from 10 litre tubs. In case you were wondering why French restaurant food tastes nice....
November 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A mate of mine went to culinary school. He said that when he interned in restaurants cooking French food the chefs were scooping literal handfuls of butter into individual dishes from 10 litre tubs. In case you were wondering why French restaurant food tastes nice....
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Why is autism so politicised? Professor Simon Baron Cohen writes about the implications of the other thing RFK Jr did; examines why diagnoses are rising and calls for the spectrum to be divided. on.ft.com/49tIxdM
The new politics of autism
[FREE TO READ] As contentious claims over rising diagnoses get a presidential platform, Simon Baron-Cohen explains where talk of an ‘epidemic’ goes wrong — and why we need more recognition that autism...
on.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Why is autism so politicised? Professor Simon Baron Cohen writes about the implications of the other thing RFK Jr did; examines why diagnoses are rising and calls for the spectrum to be divided. on.ft.com/49tIxdM
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Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.
Reform’s £25bn p/a savings plan. A theme emerges:
- ending foreign aid
- increase immigration health surcharge paid by foreigners
- deport foreign criminals
- end UC payments to foreign nationals
- ending foreign aid
- increase immigration health surcharge paid by foreigners
- deport foreign criminals
- end UC payments to foreign nationals
November 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Everything is the fault of foreigners, everything can be fixed by penalising foreigners. To call them Little Englanders is generous and euphemistic.
I took a mock version of the British citizenship test in solidarity with some mates who are taking the real thing. I guess it's back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire for me...
November 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I took a mock version of the British citizenship test in solidarity with some mates who are taking the real thing. I guess it's back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire for me...
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The asylum and refugee system is supposed to be about helping people. It’s unconscionable that the dialogue has flipped into using it to punish people.
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The asylum and refugee system is supposed to be about helping people. It’s unconscionable that the dialogue has flipped into using it to punish people.
The People's Front of Judea
NEW: Inside the Corbyn-Sultana power struggle
— upcoming Corbyn v Sultana leadership race (+ ‘plague on all your houses’ candidate?)
— Jamie Driscoll + Adnan Hussain bow out
— ambition for conference reduced
— plan for the party’s name
& more 👇 www.politicshome.com/news/article...
— upcoming Corbyn v Sultana leadership race (+ ‘plague on all your houses’ candidate?)
— Jamie Driscoll + Adnan Hussain bow out
— ambition for conference reduced
— plan for the party’s name
& more 👇 www.politicshome.com/news/article...
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The People's Front of Judea
DI: "We have no money left in the overtime buget"
Me: *works 21 hour shift* "What about now Guv?"
Me: *works 21 hour shift* "What about now Guv?"
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
DI: "We have no money left in the overtime buget"
Me: *works 21 hour shift* "What about now Guv?"
Me: *works 21 hour shift* "What about now Guv?"
@brickcop.bsky.social I've found your spiritual ancestor.
1920s juries were not taken to crime scenes and so the murder scene of Emily Kaye in an Eastbourne bungalow was brought to them in 1924 thanks to the craft skills of PC Edward Er Onan Shelah (1890-1962) at Brixton Police Station. #CM150 #Museum30 #making #truecrime
November 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
@brickcop.bsky.social I've found your spiritual ancestor.
Did any of them ever commission any crimes?
Part of me is still sad we called them Police & Crime Commissioners. Rather than Sheriffs.
Police and crime commissioners to be abolished, government to announce
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Did any of them ever commission any crimes?
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Advice I received early in my career: Be loyal to your colleagues, but not the institution. Because the institution doesn't care about you.
Never truer.
Never truer.
November 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Advice I received early in my career: Be loyal to your colleagues, but not the institution. Because the institution doesn't care about you.
Never truer.
Never truer.
Dear BBC Radio 3,
You wouldn't play Hark the Herald Angel Sing in June. It's no less jarring for you to play Bruch arrangement of Kol Nidre in November.
Regards,
Plod
You wouldn't play Hark the Herald Angel Sing in June. It's no less jarring for you to play Bruch arrangement of Kol Nidre in November.
Regards,
Plod
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Dear BBC Radio 3,
You wouldn't play Hark the Herald Angel Sing in June. It's no less jarring for you to play Bruch arrangement of Kol Nidre in November.
Regards,
Plod
You wouldn't play Hark the Herald Angel Sing in June. It's no less jarring for you to play Bruch arrangement of Kol Nidre in November.
Regards,
Plod
I took a fork to Cape Town. It had the tine of it's life.
I took a teaspoon from the office on holiday to Thailand before returning it to the drawer. I bet its teaspoon mates don't believe where it was for two weeks.
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I took a fork to Cape Town. It had the tine of it's life.
I'm dressing up as a Chief Inspector looking for evidence for their promotion board.
What terrifying thing are you dressing as this Halloween I'm dressing up as acid reflux
October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm dressing up as a Chief Inspector looking for evidence for their promotion board.