It had to be predictable (although it was'nt mentioned during the time) but following the mayhem of New years eve a calm decended over the town during the following 4 nightshifts which i believe was due to:
1. Everyone was spent out after Xmas and new year after draining their bank accounts and Maxing their credit cards.
2. It was work the next day (no more hungover lie ins)
3. Everyone was exhausted after New years eve (The once a year drinkers could'nt handle the pace)
4.The pubs had all ran out of booze!
It was quite calming just to have a few hours peace and actually drive around and do some pro-active policing. I like policing the town/city at night, not being bogged down with your own enquiries on Niche and just reacting to jobs. Also, the city has a calming effect on me when it's lit up with the dull yellow hue of the millions of street lights everywhere and most law abiding people are tucked up sleeping and there is no noise of traffic etc. Also, i like it when the morning comes,especially in winter, when you finish on time and it's still dark and when i drive home to my warm bed i see all the other suckers driving to work. Lovely....
Tuesday 9 January 2007
Tuesday 2 January 2007
Happy new year???
It was all going so well.I could have almost used the Q word. But then on the stroke of Midnight to herald in 2007 it was as if someone pulled a switch and then battle commenced. As clock struck midnight i was in a front garden on a council estate trying to keep apart feuding neighbours, one of whom decided to see in the new year by throwing a concrete slab through the others window.Lovely. As the neighbours were venting their fury on one another, pretty fireworks exploded above our heads in a cacophony of colour. With that and the mayhem on the ground, i got some flavour of what our troops must be dealing with in downtown Basra. Anyway, arrests were made and this charming area of the town returned to some kind of order. Maybe it's because i wear rose tinted glasses but i always see the new year as a transitional period where people can step back and say to themselves 'this year i will try to be a better person and behave accordingly' but alas, this never happens or if it does it wears out by January the 3rd.
As for the rest of the night, it was the usual round of drunken domestics, criminal damage, suicide attempts etc. One pleasing moment for me however was when i had to assist an ambulance crew to gain entry to a house where a male had taken a handful of pills and could'nt answer the door. We arrived with no Method of entry kit and only a short crowbar in the boot of our car. In a vein attempt to open the UPVC front door (always the worst to open) i tried to 'jemmy' the door open by brute force and ignorance. I inserted the bar in the door frame near to the lock and pushed. The door then made a satisfying pop and then swung open with little or no effort. Fantastic. Also i managed to locate the keys for the door in the flat (The gentleman inside was incoherent and could not tell me where they were) and secure the door again without the need of a locksmith and potentially hours of waiting. It was a small victory, but it made me happy. The gentleman was then whisked of to the local hospital to be looked after.
Amazingly, i managed to get off duty only half an hour late which in my book is an achievement for a new year.
As for the rest of the night, it was the usual round of drunken domestics, criminal damage, suicide attempts etc. One pleasing moment for me however was when i had to assist an ambulance crew to gain entry to a house where a male had taken a handful of pills and could'nt answer the door. We arrived with no Method of entry kit and only a short crowbar in the boot of our car. In a vein attempt to open the UPVC front door (always the worst to open) i tried to 'jemmy' the door open by brute force and ignorance. I inserted the bar in the door frame near to the lock and pushed. The door then made a satisfying pop and then swung open with little or no effort. Fantastic. Also i managed to locate the keys for the door in the flat (The gentleman inside was incoherent and could not tell me where they were) and secure the door again without the need of a locksmith and potentially hours of waiting. It was a small victory, but it made me happy. The gentleman was then whisked of to the local hospital to be looked after.
Amazingly, i managed to get off duty only half an hour late which in my book is an achievement for a new year.
Saturday 30 December 2006
From the Top.
As i sit here, centimetres from my sick bed recovering from my annual manflu i am contemplating who will read this blog. I am taking my first tentative steps into online publishing and am wondering if i have the motivation to keep this up already...
I am going to write what i feel without political agenda or too much contraversy. I just want to reflect what i do day to day in the job and hope someone finds it interesting, whether they are thinking of joining the job or simply reading out of curiosity. I am going to start on New Years day when i have, hopefully, returned to work. If you like what you read then please add me to your links and we will see where this journey takes us.....
For a bit of background info on myself, i am a response PC working in a large town in the South West. I am going to try to remain anonymous and so will the town. Let's begin.....
I am going to write what i feel without political agenda or too much contraversy. I just want to reflect what i do day to day in the job and hope someone finds it interesting, whether they are thinking of joining the job or simply reading out of curiosity. I am going to start on New Years day when i have, hopefully, returned to work. If you like what you read then please add me to your links and we will see where this journey takes us.....
For a bit of background info on myself, i am a response PC working in a large town in the South West. I am going to try to remain anonymous and so will the town. Let's begin.....
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