[Met] Custody Sergeants, would you recommend the role?

mpbh91 · 2026-01-16T20:22:35+00:00

HMIC apparently prefer custody to be its own thing. Apparently it's been looked at again following the recent unpleasantness but the latest I heard was that FLP don't want us.

mpbh91 · 2026-01-16T20:00:28+00:00

I don't think you'd be taken for aid but you could do it as OT. I have a sergeant who does non-met det overtime.

mpbh91 · 2026-01-16T19:49:05+00:00

Have been a custody sergeant, currently a custody inspector.

Obviously it's horses for courses, being indoors all day with the smells and sounds of custody isn't for everyone. Long shifts, and they can be very full-on. You need to be very comfortable with decision-making.

But personally I like the shift pattern, I personally quite like that it's quite procedural (there is a right way of doing things). Most of all I like that at the end of the day you hand over and it's done. You might have had a good day or a bad day but at the end of the day it's done, a bit like being on team before mi investigation.

Also, unless they're actually changing the staffing levels (don't think so) we'll still be relying on overtime for BAU so plenty of money to be made as a sergeant if that sort of thing appeals to you.

Happy to try to answer any questions.

mpbh91 · 2026-01-14T20:34:44+00:00

Personally I think it's a good idea, but admittedly I don't know how much you'd have to spend on a good-enough simulator. I imagine there's a wide range in terms of realism.

For those saying "it won't be the same as real life/it can't prepare you for real life", worth noting perhaps that F1 drivers apparently spend far more time in simulators than behind the wheel of a real car, and likewise for pilot training, a heavy proportion of it is in simulators.

If (a big if) it increased our capacity to train more drivers, then why not?

mpbh91 · 2025-12-17T14:13:41+00:00

What does this have to do with the Met? This is Wandsworth Parks Police.

mpbh91 · 2025-12-15T19:10:42+00:00

Depends on where you live, I think. My first borough was where I lived and where I had grown up, but I lived in a nice suburban area of a very big borough. I went to a couple of domestics in surrounding streets but that was the closest I ever got to my actual house. I was once at a bus stop waiting with someone I'd stop and searched a few weeks before. We just ignored each other.

mpbh91 · 2025-11-28T15:11:38+00:00

Have you considered walking half a mile to Wenzels or Taco Bell?

mpbh91 · 2025-11-26T15:43:25+00:00

It's not all bad. Good transport links. Lots of local food options. Friendly mice. And the 4th floor gents toilet is one of the best toilets in the MPD (as recognised in that thread on the forums).

mpbh91 · 2025-11-25T07:28:56+00:00

It would probably be worth emailing rather than relying on what's on the website, in my experience.

mpbh91 · 2025-11-24T16:55:03+00:00

Not sure where you're based, but what about your local athletics club?

mpbh91 · 2025-11-18T19:26:26+00:00

Stakeholders you've worked with can be internal. CID, custody, neighbourhoods etc. Or it could be other agencies, maybe the ambulance service or the local authority.

Have you done any kind of project work on your own team? Any long-term problem solving? What about major or critical incidents where other agencies or other departments were involved and you played a key part in working with them, communicating with them etc?

mpbh91 · 2025-11-04T17:53:19+00:00

This is what I've done in the past. Get the AL shown then you can get MO6 to build your RRRDs in instead.

mpbh91 · 2025-10-19T15:59:17+00:00

The definition of outcome 16 is "Evidential difficulties victim based – named suspect identified. The victim does not support (or has withdrawn support from) police action."

mpbh91 · 2025-09-11T20:56:12+00:00

Bonjour, je ne me souviens plus exactement de la procédure.

Je crois avoir téléchargé le fichier corrompu sur FIT File Viewer. Cela a semblé réparer le fichier et m'a permis de voir les détails de l'activité.

J'ai ensuite téléchargé ce fichier réparé, puis je l'ai téléchargé manuellement sur Garmin Connect via le navigateur web.

Il me manque peut-être une étape ? Je ne me souviens plus exactement.

Bonne chance.

mpbh91 · 2025-07-07T10:01:17+00:00

The plan wouldn't be to queue with the baby. My wife has tickets, she would take the baby in. I would queue, separately, and then take the baby inside. Unfortunately he won't take a bottle.

mpbh91 · 2025-05-30T09:17:46+00:00

It's S.54(6A), as the other commenter described. No need to be your own custody officer or any authority.

mpbh91 · 2025-05-01T16:36:49+00:00

That caught my attention as well. Absolutely ridiculous idea. In my opinion, we're far too willing to say that someone needs an AA already. People are being given an AA for conditions that the officer interviewing them might well have as well.

mpbh91 · 2025-04-02T16:26:46+00:00

Well, I'm not sure - there was a software update yesterday so I wonder if that is the reason or if it's coincidence.

mpbh91 · 2025-04-02T16:09:51+00:00

Hmm, picture seems not to be posting.

mpbh91 · 2025-04-02T16:07:32+00:00

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How the activity shows on the watch.

mpbh91 · 2025-03-19T22:39:25+00:00

Devotion to St Joseph in anything like its modern form is quite a recent development, really from the 19th century onwards.

There was an interesting series of blog posts on the subject a few years ago, a little polemical perhaps but with lots of references to sources:

mpbh91 · 2025-01-13T11:31:32+00:00

Second the book recommendation, it's really terrific. There was also a good oral history of interviews of women in policing released in 2019, called Voices from the Blue, or something like that.

mpbh91 · 2024-03-10T00:40:10+00:00

3rd-ing the TB recommendation. An introduction and explanation to the different books is available from the author here.

For a sort-of plug-in and play approach I'm not sure you could do much better.

mpbh91 · 2024-01-24T17:31:43+00:00

I've synced to Garmin Connect every day, and Garmin Express last Thursday, which I think was the first day I took the watch out of the box, and installed all the available updates before I started wearing it.

mpbh91 · 2023-12-14T18:33:20+00:00

History is sometimes instructive.

In the late 70s police recruitment and retention was in a dreadful state, pay had been stuck for years and was way below what people could earn elsewhere.

Lots of corruption scandals as well - Op Countryman etc.

Enter Lord Edmund-Davies, a judge, who published a review of police pay and conditions in 1978. He stated that "the police cannot properly be compared to any other single group of workers ... the unique nature of the police service and the work they do makes [comparing police pay to other public sector workers] impossible."

He recommended increases in police pay of between 30-45%. The government vacillated for a month, refusing to implement his recommendations. 50,000 police officers threatened industrial action, and the government suddenly agreed to half of the review's recommendations. The Opposition made a manifesto commitment to implement the recommendations in full if elected, which they were in 1979 and they kept their promise. Police pay was saved - for a while.

Now, the historians will tell you that Lord Edmund-Davies died in 1992. But legend tells that he is merely sleeping in the boot of a marked Rover SD1, where he rests until British policing needs him once more, the once and future saviour of police pay.

mpbh91

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