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Steve Smith

3 months

I have decided, and this will be controversial, that I hope the incumbent is returned in the London mayoral elections. I have a very real fear that otherwise, should labour win a GE he is likely to be parachuted into the first available safe seat byelection and be elected leader

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 months

@oxfordteddy @Nigel_Farage So it is someone else's fault that you messed up? Given that "stolen freedom of movement" seems to be the number one complaint of remain folks, and it has been a lot longer than few weeks since the rules changed, I don't see how this could really happen

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@NoContextBrits No, they walk the same, its just the non Welsh readers spend a couple of minutes seeing if they can try saying the Welsh bit

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

7 months

If you complain about police staffing today, wait til tomorrow. The average nick will contain:- 4 PCs with 8 months experience between them, scared to leave the building 34 officers of NPCC rank who are in meetings with "stakeholder focus groups" 1 sarge 3 days from retirement

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 month

Well done taking on a job the majority can't even talk about intelligently, never mind apply for, pass induction and do.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@Sandford_Police I have been led to believe the driver was cycling mikey or Jeremy vine trying to create content

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 months

@VeteranIrish You missed the poison tea usually attributed to Churchill? “If you were my husband, sir, I’d give you a dose of poison!” The man looked at her. “If I were your husband,” said he, “I’d take it!”

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@Shayan86 @akhmxt In other news....Zelensky security officer is of similar build and has beard.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@DrProudman Have you ever considered how you put yourself across and why such clarification is necessary? I just hate unnecessary violence. I don't care who does it against whom. It's called equality.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 years

@echetus The way some people carry on, it would appear to be thousands of "unarmed young black men" shot by police, one wrong death is one too many, but investigations demonstrate none of these were wrong. That 10 year wait to try PC long after already being cleared speaks volumes

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

10 months

@JuliaHB1 Why "of course it is"? Stereotyping much? Makes me think "of course it's an entitled middle aged, middle class, white woman complaining about nothing of real consequence that can easily be rectified with less effort than it takes to tweet a complaint"

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

4 months

@drewsnx I wonder if that might have anything to do with the relative rarity of cyclists being prosecuted for ignoring the law? I'd expect lots of news coverage and twitter comments about elephants stampeding down the M11, because that's pretty rare too

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

3 months

@Ali3Mctavish It happened. Stop crying, pull your big boy pants on and deal with it. There is no reason it cannot be better, it just requires effort, and does not require a new application to join the EU.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 month

@edwinhayward May I draw your attention to a bit of UK law that enshrines all of those? The Human Rights Act 1998. Leaving ECHR does nothing to alter UK law. We are also signatories to the UN fundamental charter on Human Rights, should the UN be permitted to rule on UK proceedings?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@DaysofNHS Perhaps not the best comparison. It can be read as the coronation was a bargain, and/or the NHS is a behemoth that takes far too much money

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

26 days

@4ChordsNoNet It's called increasing line of sight. They were there practically the entire time you could see them, and yet still insist on riding right up to them. Give way to someone who wasn't even there? Don't be daft, and it is a give way, not a stop.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

Why on earth is everyone assuming that cops should be mind readers, know every aspect of their colleagues' lives when off duty? Where the average adult works, statistically their 20-25% of their colleagues have a criminal record. Do they know what for, if its still ongoing?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

6 months

@policeconduct If by positive impact you mean destroying any faith in policing and yourselves.........

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 months

@Soulgirl1RN At the risk of pointing out something obvious. The home care industry is hugely understaffed and under resourced. So what is better, washed by a man, or not washed at all?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

8 months

@policeconduct @metpoliceuk The IOPC should face gross misconduct hearings for the appalling mismanagement of far too many cases.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

11 months

@Aviation_Intel Long time since I wore green, but even back then tanks, AFVs and the like were considered sacrificial. The guys inside being much more important. Like the crumple zone on a car armoured vehicles are supposed to fail before the occupants.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

4 months

@H_H_Gray How often are cyclists actually prosecuted at all for any traffic offence, let alone 4 in one go? It's pretty rare. You ever wonder if it made the news because it trended, and it trended because so many of the cycle lobby didn't believe the offence took place?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@TimFegley @RAF_Luton Luckily there is no difference between the US and Canadian flags to complicate issues

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

5 months

@n00dles71 If you think that is because you are a cyclist, I suggest driving and finding out its not all about you.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@DrJessTaylor Believe it or not, appearance, especially of the defendent is a factor in every trial.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@SadiqKhan Who listens to the families of people murdered and demand MORE stop and search?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

11 months

@IainWatkinson Well done those folks at the sharp end. It's never "just" response.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@DebatINQUEST Where does it say in that article, or any article there was no attempt at deescalation? What would you have done?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@MayorofLondon I am a millionaire. I can sit there with my supercar/megaSUV idling all day between tearing up the high St and not pay. I on the other hand am a junior constable with no public transport for many of my shifts and I live outside London with an older car to get to work

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

8 months

@barbedquill A) Professional means "paid to" not necessarily "good at" B) Both drivers and mechanics at that depot talk rubbish.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@RAF_Luton With that on patrol we don't need another hero, as it passes over river deep mountain high

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

3 months

@4ChordsNoNet I'm not @AshleyNealDI , but as someone who likes to #ArriveAlive I would give space. Being "right" is useless from a hospital bed or a mourgue

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 months

@SheilaBurgoyne1 @UKLabour Just stop and think for just a second. If they have moved right, to try get into power, it is because that is what voters, "the people" want. To get into power they need votes, they need to represent the people. You are not the people

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@RAF_Luton Canberras fly in rain too! If cloud is too low they just taxi to their destination using bus lanes.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

6 months

@____Foxtrot____ "Doesn't look dangerous" All those hours I spent doing investigation, evidence etc completely wasted. All I had to do was look at people to decide.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

6 months

@drewsnx Thats not a swerve towards the cyclist, it is simply an inability to drive to the conditions and within one's own competence.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

3 months

@KatyMontgomerie @JoPhoenix1 Purely out of interest...... Where did you obtain data/stats as regards the incidence of trans people being arrested on suspicion of solicitation merely for walking down the street so you could perform "real analysis?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

11 months

@UKCopHumour The answer is simple. Uphold the law showing no favour and let the outraged whine and pay the fines. The silent majority are still behind you

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@RAFAssociation After noise complaints from local residents @RAF_Luton bring in their specialist NIght Ops Team Specialist Helicopter Insertion Troop to show @NPAShq how to avoid upsetting locals. This will cost NPAS 8.008 billion pounds payable in daily installments of 71.75 pence

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

5 months

@TomGaymor @metpoliceuk SEG are among the best of the best. I have done Heathrow to Central London with them, not coming to a halt a single time. The choreography is beyond reproach.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

9 months

@amandajplatell Outrageous that a "journalist" ignores basic facts, or fails to look for them. I'm unsure which option is worse.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@chooselove Entering the UK illegally is a crime Entering the UK illegally is a crime Entering the UK illegally is a crime Get it yet?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@MayorofLondon Ignoring voters, misleading city hall, selective use of data, not considering alternatives, outright lies, using city funds for election stunts, all of these could be seen as misconduct in public office. Pot, Kettle, you know the rest.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 years

@999London @RicciGuarnaccio To all those complaining about bad taste. For many of us who deal with things like this day in, day out humour is an essential survival mechanism. As is you are always free to use the block feature or just scroll right on past

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@ItsWeary Why oh why can't we have habitual offender rules, no bail, minimum 10 years with no discounts, parole etc.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@KevinTurveyRIP @MatthewStadlen 4, those who are waiting for it to actually happen 5 people who can't accept they lost the vote, caused the leaving process to be a mess, and just won't shut up about professing their beliefs.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@DrProudman The principles of the convention are enshrined in statute law (human rights act 1994) the court is unnecessary, we have courts of our own. Why not be subject to the courts of Brazil?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 month

Big one tomorrow. And a completely different load out to usual. Not looking forward to having to set off at oh-frack-thirty.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@DrProudman @Sistah_Space So, certainly nothing to do with both the charities commission and the GLA investigating the charity then? Imagine your post if a male cop resigned during an investigation.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@MPSLambethNorth @Cllr_Kellermann This is exactly the kind of post police comms should be making! @DameLynneOwens

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Steve Smith

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1 month

@sweettooth70 @UKdemocrat Which we had in UK statute law before ECHR even existed

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

8 months

@Foxtrot_Cop "The HMICFRS reviewed bodyworn video footage and concluded that police had not exaggerated their statements." "Police received 463 messages of praise and 181 messages of criticism." Two simple sentences that say it all. Keep up with the good work of presenting facts

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

9 months

@willnorman @Labourstone @wfcouncil Yet funnily, the London borough with least car ownership has decided they do not work. It certainly does not work for my ambulance, every minute delay makes cardiac arrest 10% less survivable, I am already on average 7 mins and 19s away. Longer routes, on more congested roads.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@DrProudman In a public place, on public record. How is that an invasion of privacy? Why do I think if it were a female photographer it would be "well done for exposing the trauma" from you?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@CMPG @OFFICIALWMAS @WestMidsFire @HighwaysWMIDS Frustrating that this even needs saying. Red X on gantry signs has been around for decades, there is NO excuse

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

6 months

@policeconduct @swpolice 18 months to investigate, almost as long again to follow through with a hearing. Disgusting does not come close. I hope you are subject to civil claim for undue stress, and any other costs caused to the officer involved. If the police took that long to investigate someone.....

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

10 months

@CoventryPolice Some great quick thinking there to ensure adequate containment pending arrival of someone suitable

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

9 months

@policeconduct @metpoliceuk Should be shortest investigation ever. Could they help? Did they help? Shouldn't take 20mins, let alone 20months

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@NatashaMDay I want the best people for the job. That's certainly going to include experienced which of course is going to mean a certain age bracket. It's often going to mean male as women take years out for family. Quality, not checkboxes

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@parajon82 Immediate custodial sentence required. No suspension, there is no mitigation, full term to be served

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@DrProudman Too many people with too little information and double standards are talking about it

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 months

@WindsorDebs Abolish VAT, and income tax will have to rocket up. VAT is mostly an optional tax, don't want to pay VAT, don't purchase the product or service.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

4 months

@clairebubblepop Doesn't alter the fact the NHS is bloated, mismanaged, perhaps even over-funded, and certainly in need of ground up reform.

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Steve Smith

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4 months

@baoigheallain Speed has nothing to do with airbag deployment. A stationary vehicle can have them deploy. Just a little tip from someone who understands road traffic collisions.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

8 months

@CrimeGirI How the public see it is broadly irrelevant. This is aimed at police management, IOPC, CPS, and politicians.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

5 months

@Ex_arv_sgt Shame karma couldn't do better given the ruin of the lives she had a hand in

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@DrProudman Better idea, let's scrap this ridiculous separatist genderist rubbish that merely creates friction and trouble both sides.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

3 months

@Ali3Mctavish A) Not my house B) A house I do not want to enter under any circumstances. C) Like people forcing me into a place I don't want to go with no public support, reliant on economical application of truth. When you look, you are not the vast majority, you have to rely on fudged polls

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Steve Smith

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2 months

@Ex_arv_sgt Vetting would have stopped the method, there is no guarantee it would have stopped such an ending.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@TheFreds You know that's just a stab vest thrown on over civvy clothes as worn by CID as a matter of routine. Stick to music, leave policing to those who have knowledge of the topic

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

10 months

@MayorofLondon @metpoliceuk Well, you just included an explanation of what happened as a quote within your post. Or did you mean you want some explanation that means you can attack the police again?

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

9 months

@PoliceChiefs @missingpeople @findmbp Surely an improvement in response and effectiveness for all missing persons would achieve that?

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Steve Smith

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9 months

@Brick_Cop @metpoliceuk Even simpler explanation. Too many crimes, not enough coppers.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

10 months

@DisabledJourno @MayorofLondon It's not rarer. Every reputable study puts the split at 50/50. Erin Pizzey, founder of Refuge knew this from her own victims in the 70s, so got death threats and hounded out of the country

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@SadiqKhan @FT Did you mention the number of council homes slated for demolition, or the funding loss for not building enough of them? Tax rises, fare rises, ULEz expansion TfL buses cut. Doing a pretty good job of making people poorer yourself

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@MPFed So, @MayorofLondon is once again incapable of meeting the standards he demands of others, well the police anyway.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@themetskipper Potential removal of a basic human right by a "human rights lawyer" demonstrates what a sham it all is.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

11 months

@Brick_Cop @metpoliceuk Seagull management. Fly in, make a lot of noise, crp over everything, fly out. The only changes to teams should be of necessity, Eg moving having gained a speciality. Rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic otherwise

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

10 months

@johnfreame1 @RAF_Luton 7175 and 80085 are the same thing, or things. 8008135 is too. ( . )( . )

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

8 months

@RAF_Luton Surely the answer fly a canberra over the county, take a quick snap, and there it will be as canberra misses nothing

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@MayorofLondon You mean TAXPAYER FUNDED, they are not free.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@MayorofLondon @StevenBartlett Homicide is actually a) a very rare crime and b) usually involves intimate partners, so using it as a metric to judge how you are doing on crime is just plain ridiculous.

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

9 months

@ConstableChaos Any of the managers that ignored the multiple warnings should be facing gross misconduct hearings at the absolute minimum. Both by the trust and any professional bodies they may be members of. It's the barest minimum that would be expected in any other public service

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

11 months

@helenandrews68 @DieMadTerf Society is everyone's business.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@StopWatchUK @CityMonitorAI 3 out of 10 result in contraband being recovered. 10 out of 10 create intelligencee. 10 out of 10 create a deterrent. Increasing stop and search increases intelligence gathering and deterrent

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

1 year

@Sandford_Police I have heard a rumour that courts were going to bring back stocks for such people. The lack of Polish carpenters means instead the offending cyclist will be cable tied to the grille of the next available skip wagon for 7177135 days

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Steve Smith

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8 months

@gmptraffic He's a repeat? simple solution, ask borders to not permit entry as a persistent criminal

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Steve Smith

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7 months

@MPSCroydon Why? Seriously why? Even from the half story on social media it is clear the entirety of any wrongdoing was on the part of the "victim"

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@RAF_Luton Pretty sure the correct identification of the heavyweight versions of the Spitfire that came after this was in fact the B16/B-0085

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Steve Smith

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6 months

@magnatom How dare the police enforce the law and consider safety!

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Steve Smith

@HidingSmith

2 years

@CopWellbeing Don't forget to demand all time owed when working to rule. All those postponed rest days, refused leave and such. I once worked out nationally enough time was owed for everyone from greenest probationer to CC to have 3 working days off. Pick a Thursday and have entire nation out

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@DrProudman I think that about anyone who murders a partner, directly or otherwise. I don't do gender discrimination. I do equality.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

Is this the bit where tens, hundreds of thousands of people sit and say "Told you so" ?

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1 year

The Baroness Casey review has highlighted the grim realities of frontline policing.. “unloved, under-resourced, and creaking at the seams. Neighbourhood Policing teams have been decimated. Response teams, CID and Public Protection are totally overstretched.”

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Steve Smith

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6 months

@gazzabiker Some of them may well right, it is the best and/or only. Best is subjective. I would rather sit an hour in my own car than spend ten minutes on a crowded bus. Much better for my health.

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Steve Smith

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10 months

@ConstableChaos Persuaded how? By what? I can only assume no room in HM prison system.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@ClaaareKirwan The operating costs for each differ. Rents, tools, materials, transport. I charge up to £60 an hour, yet often barely make minimum wage once all my costs of doing business are covered. I'd quite like £28/h with zero overheads.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@MayorofLondon You missed an important fact. The majority don't want it.

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Steve Smith

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8 months

@policeconduct How is 3 years for a simple investigation "working"? Police have no faith in you, public have no faith in you. Not fit for purpose.

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Steve Smith

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1 year

@Ex_arv_sgt Common sense is so rare it could be considered a superpower. It's not just common sense, but simple observation skills too. Worse, many of these people who do not observe likely drive

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Steve Smith

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4 months

@XploredHistory Worst tourist traps in America. Shows one in Asia. Wonder how accurate the rest is?

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1 year

@MayorofLondon Men are more likely to be victims of violence. Inside an intimate relationship they are just as likely to be a victim and have practically nothing in the way of support services. So that's nearly £18m, only available to half the victims. That's beyond discrimination, disgusting

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