October 2011
7 posts
Busy weekend
I started the day away from Arun chairing the Rape Prevention Working Group.This is a new world to me but by working closely with partners and voluntary groups we aim to prevent as many people as possible becoming a victim of such a serious crime.This is a long term piece of work that needs commitment and real understanding of what the causes really are.
Later on I went to Littlehampton to see...
Interesting Day
I’m heading home after a day assessing some newly trained public order commanders. The course has been redesigned to take into account the recommendations laid out in ‘Adapting To Protest.’
Whilst the assessors and candidates came from many different forces the principles remain the same.The minimal use of force, the facilitation of peaceful protest and negotiation and influence....
Watchhanding over
Just an average day...
Today is my third day as the Silver Commander for the Force and I have to say that ‘PC Rain’ has been very helpful in detering some people from committing cime across Sussex.
Every day across the Force we locally review what has happened over the previous 24hours and respond accordingly.Sometimes we can be incredibly busy for no apparent reason, other times, like for instance on a...
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Let me introduce myself
I hope this will be the first of many blogs that I post to try and provide you with what it is really like to be a police officer in Sussex. Whilst Twitter is a good base it doesn’t let me explain things properly. My aim is to try and help you understand the complex role the Police have; why we don’t always get it right and hopefully through feedback from you try and make it better. It’s probably...
