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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

This is my much loved nephew. He's a doctor. He's working on a *respiratory* ward. The Dark circles under his eyes are new to me. This is the only mask available to him at the moment. I'm beyond shocked.

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Richard Horton

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5 years

You may gather that I'm not best pleased with @BorisJohnson I spent a good chunk of my detective career investigating historical sexual abuse of children within the care system. To hear this hard, dedicated, necessary work derided as malarkey & spaffing money up the wall burns.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

Morrison's delivery drivers, welcome to the club. You may now legitimately exchange waves with the crews of other passing emergency service vehicles.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

I have a strong suspicion that if every private police team WhatsApp group was suddenly made public, the majority would be benign but the contents of many would necessitate a much bigger recruitment drive than 20,000. #CharingCross

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@Cilvrnum Because an actual suicide vest can be detonated by the wearer really really quickly. They are designed to project lethal shrapnel in a bullet speed cloud around the wearer. No time for a dog. Wear a suicide vest (real or fake) on a public street necessitates a deadly response.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Has she been yet?

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

Appointing a Knife Crime Tsar now would be like creating a Admiral for three rowing boats & a pedalo. You can't take (for example) 50,000 people out of policing, ruin probation, run down the courts etc and suddenly expect a Tsar to change everything by force of personality.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

This please.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Seriously, wearing that uniform bears a price that this man has not paid.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

Children all over the country get to know that when the chips are down mum working on the tills at Asda or dad working as a hospital cleaner is actually really really important but running a chain of sports shops isn't. #bravenewworld

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

Thing is @OwenJones84 , when loads of UK Police Twitter accounts change their picture to the thin blue line, it doesn't indicate a sudden police lurch into racism, it's a commonly understood emblem showing solidarity in shared grief.

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@iofiv

4 years

@Telegraph @allisonpearson No it isn't. Stop adding to the nonsense

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@davidallengreen There is no cop, popular stereotype or otherwise, that could police this rapidly agglomerating cluster of afterthoughts...

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@iofiv

4 years

A rather depressing conclusion by @davidallengreen The latent weaknesses that have been exposed in our constitutional checks and balances would be lamentable even if our govt. had achieved world class performance by exploiting them.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

Tweet theft but in a good cause.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

@AdamWagner1 @davidallengreen @law_and_policy I was the Licensing Sgt for South Lancs. Preston, Chorley, Leyland, Skelmersdale Officers sought advice from me during lockdown as I tried to keep up to date. I found your blog and Twitter invaluable for sorting the legal wheat from the daily ministerial pronouncement chaff.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

@RDSS400 @metpoliceuk For clarity, did you drive this route before you could find somewhere safe to stop?

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

When I retired from policing I promised myself that I would do nothing for two months and then voluntary library work and some sort of supermarket job. Mission accomplished.

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@iofiv

4 years

@Justsay42301571 @Frenchi74280369 It does. It breaks my heart & it makes me angry that he doesn't have basic decent kit for a risky job.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

There is no racism, sexism, homophobia or misogyny in my phone but i have to tell you all that imminent retirement looks better than ever at the moment.

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@AllieHBNews

2 years

Saturday’s TIMES: “Trawl police phones ‘to weed out the misogynists” #TomorrowsPapersToday

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@iofiv

1 year

'I don't understand why the police issued that information about her" Noted. You don't understand. That's OK, not everybody understands. That doesn't necessarily mean it was a bad decision. It just means that you don't understand it.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Police morale at PC, PS and Insp ranks is an utter mess. All the hope has been sold. Promises are no longer believed. People won't keep giving their lives for the job any more. #microblog #NightJack

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Police performance targets are back on the horizon. We have learned *nothing* Worse, we are ignoring a wealth, an absolute wealth of evidence that they are *a* *bad* *thing*

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

If my conduct in a stop search was professional, necessary, proportionate, legal , compliant with all policy, guidelines and APP, I would hope that a public apology from my most senior leader would be unnecessary.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

8 months

If policing could go on strike, I think it would.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

@NorthWestCop I had a tutor detective harangued by a suspect in the custody office. "He's gay, he's a tranny" etc He came back without missing a beat "No, it's my boyfriend that wears the dresses."

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@iofiv

5 years

@JeremyClarkson We did it to you deliberately. Is that better. Actually, it takes as long as it takes. Some scenes are relatively simple, some are not. It can take a long time.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Four working days left. I'm gathering uniform for the big "Return To Clothing Stores" bag and looking for volunteering opportunities in libraries. Its getting real. #groundrush

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@iofiv

4 years

2 yrs ago 2018 Ch Insp :"Why not be a Licensing Sgt for your last few years Richard" Me : "Yes, that sounds like good steady work boss. Should be fine." 2020

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

1 year

The return of police performance targets. The stories I could tell about the last lot.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

I've slept on it & I'm still wondering how we ended up with a very senior politician describing police enquiries into the sexual abuse of children as "malarkey" and spaffing (sic) money up the wall. @BorisJohnson combines patrician condescension with a brutally cold crudeness.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

There is nothing in the way that the Prime Minister has acted over Brexit that comes as any surprise to police officers.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

8 months

Police morale get a little closer to general collapse every week. The hope has all been sold. There is no cavalry over the hill. Everything new and better isn't - or isn't ready yet. Policing is now rapidly changing from a vocation into just a job. Ah well.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

They were so confident in the power of the script and the number for a closed crime to close a vaccine centre and it crumbled to nothing and a walk of shame in the face of actual policing. Well done that Sgt. Also assertive =/= aggresive.

Covid Radicals 🇺🇦

@CovidRadicals

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💉⛔️ NEW: #SovereignCitizen #Antivaxxers attempt to have a vaccine centre in #Stockport closed down. They’re convinced they have the right to do so because of a bogus ‘crime number’ that leads them to believe that there is an active investigation into #covid19 vaccines. 5/8

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

@mlothianmclean @guy_herbert This on the other hand is already in existence, is venue led, victim centered and it works.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Turns out that I'll be celebrating my birthday and my retirement from policing this weekend with iiofiv iiiofiv and ivofiv as well as mumofiv and dadofiv. Couldn't be happier.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

It has been less than 3 months since I retired and already my years of policing seem very long ago and very far away.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@RosamundUrwin @francescrook It's not collective punishment. It is a necessary public health intervention. You're not being punished. You're finding out that life in a public health lockdown is different.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Post police retirement I will be working for @sainsburys and volunteering at @LancsLibraries This is pretty entirely the work that I planned to do. #lucky #blessed #donecoppering

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

7 months

@andygeorgeni Maybe, just maybe Andy, the firearms tickets are not being withdrawn to support a colleague but because those armed officers who stand down don't want to carry the responsibility of being armed any more.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@NorthWestCop I never got this when I strolled into the local Asda for a 3am sandwich & Monster. People seemed pleased to see me. Smile and nod from security, sometimes a chat with a member of public at the scanners. Sounds like you were spotted by a crank with 6-9 points on their licence.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 months

Ding dong! I kept a bottle of champagne in the fridge waiting to celebrate her not being PM any more. Another one is going on ice for when she stops being an MP. Spiteful, two faced, police hating, sneering, patronising, deluded and incompetent. That is all.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Re police CJS IT systems, if you can't go start to finish with inputting an uncomplicated admitted theft in < 2hrs, you have a bad system. Handover culture is grounded in cumbersome IT IMO.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

1 year

Wrong type of river apparently.....

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

1 year

"We need a retired police 'expert' for our rolling news coverage but, what it is, we need you to be relentlessy downbeat, critical and dismissive of all police efforts" "Sure, can I plug my book?"

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

Imagine designing a recruitment program that recruits the sort of people you like but it turns out that they're not necessarily the kind of people who can actually do the job that you're recruiting them for.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

I have written a guest review of @AdamWagner1 s fine book Emergency State for the estimable Law and Policy blog. Read the review but most of all, read the book.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

JUST IN: We cut over 40,000 police officers and police staff. That was our mistake and the effectiveness of your police suffered. We're trying to get back some of the lost ground but we have broken police recruitment and retention as well so don't hold your breath...

Conservatives

@Conservatives

2 years

🚨 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Over 13,500 more police have now been recruited 👮‍♀️ Police forces are being backed with more officers and an extra £1.1 billion in funding in 2022

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

They even got my name right...

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

I'm getting into that last part of my police career when people start asking "How long have you got to do?" and when I answer I always get a reply that is "Lucky bastard" or something very similar.....

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

All clear. Heading home soon.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

Constables need tutors. Why don't Sgts need tutors?

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

7 months

That unusually large Met firearms authorisation card surrender....its basically a no confidence vote.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@PaulCManning @davidallengreen Some blame sits with any officers / line supervisors who try to deal with a Covid job without knowing the legislation or the @CollegeofPolice / @PoliceChiefs guidance.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Finished my last ever NightSafe by policing a long and impatient taxi queue for a couple of hours. So cold that I even wore my gloves and my big yellow traffic officer coat. V large celebratory scotch on the rocks when I got home. All good.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

As has been said many times in my police career "Sometimes the pat on the back is just reconnaissance for the knife."

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@ukhomeoffice

3 years

Our support for our brave police officers is unwavering and we will always ensure they have the resources and powers they need to fight crime and protect the public

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

1 year

Supt Smith, well I never worked with her but I hear enough good things that if the bad thing happened to me or mine, I'd want her on the team. Amanda Platell? Frankly I'd worry that she'd do more harm than good.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

Don't ever want to hear that broken, glee filled grating voice using the crying wolf schtick ever again. Don't ever want to hear how police numbers were preserved or that we have the resources we need. Gone at last.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

This way to the Hall of Mirrors

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

This is what a credible leader looks like. Colleagues, we chose well.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

With so many Police Forces now in Special Measures, it is fair to say that the various Police Reforms undertaken by this govt. in the last 12 years have not improved policing at all. Quite the opposite. #ToldYou

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Last NightSafe shift ever. #endofanera

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

Why do we have to keep repeating this central truth about policing? Let's admit it: most police work does not involve catching criminals | Robert Reiner

Let's admit it: most police work does not involve catching criminals | Robert Reiner

Robert Reiner: the Bill got it right – what unites the bewildering miscellany of police jobs is the use of legitimate force

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

The more I look back at policing over the last decade, the more I think that we've been building a job that is impossibly hard to do properly with the available resources.

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@iofiv

2 years

Three hours later and the review is written. I just sat at the kitchen table with tea and a bacon sandwich and it practically wrote itself. Just like the old NightJack days when this stuff flowed easily.

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@iofiv

3 years

MP protection? I'm betting my usual coffee that a stab vest,can of irritant spray and a metal baton backed by 8 hrs a year training wouldn't cut the mustard. Makes me think. #bbcqt

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@iofiv

23 days

I am a shop worker. This will do absolutely nothing to make me feel safer at work. Absolutely Nothing

Assault of shop workers to be made specific criminal offence

The PM says shops must be able to trade free from abuse but Labour argues ministers have been slow to act.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

Making the attainment of a degree level qualification into a necessary part of joining policing is about changing police culture far more than it is about improving police education.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

10 months

FWIW, in 30 years I never served in policing with a female colleague that I did not respect and value. I cannot say the same for every male colleague. More women in policing has been an unalloyed good thing for policing.

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@iofiv

1 year

@CumbriaChief @Chappers2013 You're in the Daily Mail continuum. Not so much a decade as a fossilised remnant of things that we've moved past and are better without.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

If you're thinking "One last big session this weekend. Yeah. It'll be OK."

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

When it hits you that time is up, you've ruined everythingb that you have touched for a decade & there will be no legacy at all, just the ruins left in your wake. She believed deeply in many wrong things. She would not be told.

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@iofiv

1 year

Go back into policing as a volunteer Special Constable? After 30 years in regular policing? Sorry, not a prayer. I have more than enough in my semi retired life without going back into policing.

Miles

@Miles_PBH

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How good would it be if retired police attesting as specials and continuing to benefit policing and the community with all their accumulated knowledge tickets and skills was common, and not remarkable. One day, perhaps.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

Meaningless person from the internet wears meaningless badge from the internet.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@AndreaMUK Same ground in tiredness. I don't know how they keep going.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Ouch!

Metropolitan Police Federation

@MPFed

2 years

NEW: Following a meeting of colleagues today, The Metropolitan Police Federation has declared it has no faith in London Mayor Sadiq Khan. See our full statement:

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

The Met. Doing media stuff poorly. Again. Why deploy the tired old "sorry not sorry" shuffle? It won't satisfy the complainant. It won't improve public confidence. It tanks morale. IOPC are still investigating.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

1 year

@InspGadgetBlogs Might be worth publicising what Michael Lockwood is suspected of if only to give any other potential complainants confidence to come forward with allegations against him....

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

Tonight sonofiofiv found a phone signal at sea off Port Rush after 3 weeks off grid hiking the Icelandic wilderness & sailing home on a tall ship. The GCSE envelope has been opened. Old money, load of A's smattering of B's. Proud dad.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

All done for the night. People were OK. People were much better behaved than I expected. Really not at all bad. Now to eat sleep eat repeat.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

It would be useful for the press & local politicians to see what normal restraint training is for police. Maybe go through the syllabus, try it out and work out for themselves just how effective it actually is and whether it is fit for purpose.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

Still life with the best part of 100 years of policing experience at one table.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

I will really cheer when something of this strength comes from a head of @PoliceChiefs that is not outgoing.. Cuts have left officers retreating from streets, says outgoing police chief

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

Chances of making UK attempts at area quarantines & lock downs stick? Ask any police officer who has ever staffed a road block. Everyone's a special case.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

Imagine creating a recruitment pathway dependent on & fixed on attaining a degree level education & it turns out that in the world, whilst a degree level education is a good thing, it's nowhere near as important as you thought it was and less important than many other things.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@crimlawuk You're sophisticated enough to know why CPS prosecute. I'm experienced enough to have been relieved at getting one of those "victimless" cases home where the male offender beat his partner unconscious (again) & she would not complain, even denied the assault at court.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

The #NightJack big blog will return but dear reader, I'm applying for jobs, having fun decompressing, playing through Fallout 4 and planning a year of personally satisfying if unspectacular treats. #microblog

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

So long Ashy.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

@JohnRobertMc I am incredibly proud of him. I can't help but reflect that last summer, he was a lot more bronzed surfer dude...

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

The proposition that UK police use of stop search is informed by racism has become so ingrained in popular culture that no amount of compelling evidence to the contrary will shift opinions any time soon.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

3 years

This evening, for the first time ever, I can sense the end of my 30 year policing career coming. It's OK.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

If you're planning to defund the Police it would be a good idea to compel the other people getting the funds to operate effectively 24/7/365 As things stand a lot of them can do 8/5/250 because the police pick up the rest. That will be a hard habit to break.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

5 years

Due to my length of service, many of my police colleagues have retired over the last 2-3 years. 2 more going next month, a former DI & DSupt.. Mostly within a few months of leaving they're looking 10 yrs younger, fitter, happier (less productive 😉)

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

1 year

When Facebook friend after Facebook friend puts up the Thin Blue Line and you know that some bad news is coming down the line. Rats. R.I.P.

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

4 years

To borrow from @davidallengreen it's perhaps unwise to redouble when your hand consists Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool

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Richard Horton

@iofiv

2 years

What's that Sir Stephen? Policing is a *checks notes* *Doctorate* Level occupation?

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@iofiv

4 years

Rest assured, whoever it is that attacks or has attacked the police in London, the police will be blamed for everything that happens.

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@iofiv

2 years

Post retirement trip booked. It will involve me, myself and I under a tarp in a wood for a long weekend. #decompress

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@iofiv

4 years

@NorthantsChief Sir, Free advice (for what it's worth) from one who bears the scars Although the clarification is welcome, the stories have been written and the tweets have been tweeted. The story will now go mirror ball and no amount of further explanation from you will do anything but feed it.

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