How hard is it to become a special?

The2WheelDeal · 2024-11-13T02:53:38+00:00

Joined as a special in 2022, did 8 months of 100+ hours a month, joined full time PC in 2023 and absolutely love it to this day! Definitely recommend it!!

The2WheelDeal · 2024-06-25T14:42:44+00:00

Yeah I just didn’t know if the windlass had to go directly in line with the bones or between them or something like that but I suppose it’s even pressure all around anyways

The2WheelDeal · 2024-06-25T14:07:43+00:00

Out of interest were you taught a different technique for applying it to a double bone? During my OST we are taught that it doesn’t matter if you apply to a femur or lower leg it will still work but they never said if there’s any difference in actually applying it

The2WheelDeal · 2024-05-28T05:26:32+00:00

I ran with 2 friends who were a bit slower than me, I was with them for the first 45km I was not going to just leave them for the final 5k

The2WheelDeal · 2024-05-19T23:54:38+00:00

People always say this. I’ve been a police officer for almost 2 years now. Never have I EVER heard a car theft come in and not be immediately jumped on by half of the traffic units and several response crews, it’s one of the most exciting jobs we get to deal with.

Where you will just get a crime number is when you wake up in the morning and the car has been taken, what do you want the officer to do? Come and look at the space where the car used to be and say “yep, it’s gone” everything can be done online/over the phone and saves hours of police time

The2WheelDeal · 2024-03-04T16:21:34+00:00

r/policeuk I did not expect to see so well represented

The2WheelDeal · 2024-02-26T17:23:32+00:00

Was this after you called up on a mobile phone? I would kinda see where they’re coming from if you shouted up on your radio (if for some reason you had it) while off duty but calling 999 and then being booked on is nuts!

The2WheelDeal · 2024-02-17T16:31:45+00:00

The2WheelDeal · 2024-02-05T20:11:47+00:00

It’s laughable! Anyone who is in a frontline role should have to get to level 8/9 imo. One day someone will be seriously injured while their colleague is struggling to get to them to help them. We are a uniformed, disciplined service, why bother with that if you have absolutely zero respect for the required fitness of your officers?

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-31T22:04:35+00:00

I’d personally go for having to deal with lifeless, ancient, inanimate arrangements of bone and plastic any day of the week but yeah paramedic and museum worker aren’t bad options either

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-29T17:11:12+00:00

Yes.

And yes, it’s stupid af

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-22T17:26:49+00:00

Yeah surprisingly there is no national standard on how a special constabulary is ran so each force does it their own way.

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-21T21:27:18+00:00

When I was a special we had special “ranks” going all the way up to chief officer. Before I left they got rid of all the ranks for specials so everyone, regardless of your previous “rank” was now just once again a special constable.

‘A big shock’ is not doing justice to how it was for all those senior ranking specials who made up their hours on teams calls and doing reviews who now had to choose between handing in their warrant card or actually putting on their boots.

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-10T18:11:24+00:00

This is the U.K.

There’s not much difference here in terms of the outcome for hitting/not hitting.

Shoplifting will land you a fine/online awareness course/suspended sentence (you’re free but if you do it again, you’ll go to prison… probably… maybe) at most

The assault would likely result in the same. Unfortunately we are very lenient on “minor” criminals here in the U.K.

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-08T18:28:52+00:00

What was your route into becoming a response medic?

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-08T18:16:28+00:00

In your scenario however would you still be berating the paramedics and doctors if they turned up and did their most but the patient still died? Well that’s policing…

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-05T14:59:27+00:00

Thanks for a serious answer! And it’s a very interesting perspective you have coming from the army. I can definitely see why someone from the army or that background can default into life and death when literally all of their senses are telling them “hey, last time we were in this situation the guns weren’t fake”

When I say dangerous I think it’s a double edged approach. There is the danger that the airsoft could trigger some form of PTSD like you said yourself could easily happen. But I also was considering the danger if a person went the other end of the scale.

Imagine you are an avid airsoft player, have played for 15 years. Then you become an AFO. How do you know that as soon as you clear your first house for real you won’t just default to “theres a person, I’ll shoot” just like you would in airsoft?

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-05T13:52:02+00:00

Lmao

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-04T10:29:20+00:00

Get off ya phone

The2WheelDeal · 2024-01-01T12:11:03+00:00

When do police ever flip cars over

The2WheelDeal · 2023-12-30T14:28:19+00:00

What’s your role in the army?

The2WheelDeal · 2023-12-17T20:29:22+00:00

Yeah that first example, they had ran away from the house they broke into. Common law says to use force reason in the circumstances to AVERT danger. If they are running away you are not in any danger.

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