The police custody sergeant probably has the most difficult job in UK policing.  In my humble view, it is more demanding than being a ‘duty inspector’ where you are responsible for almost everything going on.  A constitutionally significant role, it is recognised as a quasi-judicial authority for the purposes of the European Convention on Human […]

Sometimes, I listen to protracted debates at work around divisions of responsibilities.  Is a particular type of burglary or robbery a local CID job or a force CID job?  Is a neighbour dispute neighbourhood policing or 24/7 response job?  How do we determine whether a fraud is for Economic Crime  – value or complexity? – […]

I’ve had a couple of comments (presumably) from police officers, regarding issues raised on the blog which raise a question over our use of the word ‘capacity’.  I’ve also heard the question hundreds of times, “Do they have capacity?”  It is almost as if we’ve worked out that this is the legal magic bullet to […]