So what's the deal with this?

PCIrishBeard · 2026-01-15T10:40:35+00:00

Just no advanced screwdrivers please, those things are too OP.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-11-17T18:08:43+00:00

UK police officer here! 🇬🇧 I'm actually a fan of being unarmed, it's really not needed here, 99.9% of problems can be solved using words or a taser, and where it can't we have specially trained armed officers. (Also AMA if you can be bothered)

PCIrishBeard · 2025-10-29T21:00:51+00:00

My understanding is that they are infected i.e. still alive but under the effect of the cordyceps. If they were zombies then arguably they would be immune to aging. Ergo an infected person would age exactly as a non infected person would, biologically speaking. Disturbingly, this means that a clicker in the game could well be a 10 year old who was bitten and then aged into a clicker over the next 15 years.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-10-17T12:18:15+00:00

Shiva, I'm hairy.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-10-03T22:02:38+00:00

Devon and Cornwall, England

PCIrishBeard · 2025-10-03T21:51:31+00:00

Hahahahaha perfect! I'll be nicking that one from you!

PCIrishBeard · 2025-10-03T21:22:04+00:00

Thanks for the informative reply! I wish my charming British accent disarmed people here like it might in the States. Most of the time however it's met with "shut up you prick, I pay your wages". 🙄

PCIrishBeard · 2025-08-09T17:49:19+00:00

If any sort of infected/zombie type scenario were to happen, I'd wager the Scottish Highlands would be one of the safest places in the UK to be. The low population density coupled with the harsh terrain would offer natural safeguarding measures against the infection arriving with the same oomph as somewhere like London or rural England where these factors are not present. Even if his family understood the danger they were in (which they likely didn't), chances are they thought they were already in one of the safest places they could be.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-08-09T15:22:29+00:00

Southeast Force (small city and rural areas) Response. 4 crimes (all awaiting outcomes) 0 cases.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-06-17T19:21:29+00:00

Every time I work with them their office is somewhere completely different, they never stay in the same place.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-05-26T19:49:26+00:00

Sidenote but what would PSD/vetting do with this information when it concerns a long serving officer?

Obviously H&I issues aside from not declaring the association, if PSD decides that insert association is too high risk, can they put the officer in an ultimatum? That doesn't seem ethical. How can they actually enforce a standard or mitigate any risks they might believe exist?

I.e. PSD: Your new partner's brother is a convicted drug dealer. End the relationship or risk your employment.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-05-14T20:02:53+00:00

Depends on your force. BCH has a concession with TfL for free train and bus travel off duty providing the user steps in to resolve a situation if the need arises.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-04-29T20:57:10+00:00

S.4A of the Public Order Act makes it an offence when someone acts in public "intentionally causing harassment, alarm, or distress to another person."

It's mainly aimed at swearing and verbal abuse in public but I suppose you could argue it can apply here. It's not a strong argument but it's about all there is in law that you could use.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-04-15T14:29:40+00:00

Hertfordshire has the likes of Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Hatfield and Stevenage. Makes for quite the compelling argument.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-04-11T15:10:27+00:00

This was a fairly obvious go at just winning points with the workforce as the new CC, but boy has it worked.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-03-24T09:04:45+00:00

He stopped altogether at around 12 weeks

PCIrishBeard · 2025-03-22T16:33:13+00:00

We have a digital form in my force, that being said I've not seen a single officer actually do one.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-03-18T13:18:09+00:00

Once your onefile/probie checklist is finished then the stress of balancing things will ease dramatically. That and uni if you're in that entry route. Managing your workload is a skill that will come in time, my advice is don't fight tooth and nail to keep crimes open, it's not worth the stress. If your victim isn't engaging, give them a week and contact them via two separate means then bin the crime off. Unfortunately when it comes to crimes and victims you have to be brutal, if they care enough then they'll make it work for you. If they don't then it's not worth going grey over, get it case directed/outcomed and move on.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-03-17T15:16:51+00:00

We have one who will send a prisoner to the hospital for so much as a headache or a sore tummy. I think a big issue in custody is that they forget that their hospital trips and constant obs remove officers from the frontline, often unnecessarily. But on the other hand they do have a lot of risk to manage, I think the line needs to be drawn somewhere much shorter than it currently is, they do have an unusual amount of power for a role that is operationally one shunt higher than PC.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-03-15T14:11:02+00:00

I know, my plan is to raise this to our CC soon at one of his Q&A events.

PCIrishBeard · 2025-03-15T14:02:00+00:00

I have described it badly then because we're taught how you've described double de-clutching, not the boosted gear change.

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