A few days ago, Christopher over at The Warrior Poets tagged me with ‘Honest Scrap’, where you have to tell ten honest things about yourself.  This was a tough one as everyone else who was tagged related personal things about themselves, and as this is a police blog I didn’t want to get into that [...]

The alley was lit by the faint glow of street lights.  Overhead power lines crisscrossed the piece of sky visible between the buildings and turned the night into a patchwork quilt. Garbage bins lined the angles at the bottom corners of buildings, spilling refuse in scattered piles.   “Breathe, damn it,” my partner said, and thumped the [...]

When I first started with policing, one of my trainers said something I’ve never forgotten.  It was such a valuable piece of wisdom that I repeat it to every recruit who comes out with me for a shift. “You will see bits of yourself in many officers.  Take what is good about the differing styles of police [...]

A call from a woman, wounded and bleeding inside her home. A stranger had broken in, thrown her to the floor.  He beat her, robbed her, cut her. The entire district was going - ERT (SWAT), patrol, K9 units.  We were ready.  We were going to find him.  ERT made their approach.   I knew something was [...]

It’s amazing how well some people can hold it all together until the last possible minute. Yesterday morning I stopped a car with the suspicion the driver was impaired.  He was impaired all right, but not by alcohol.  ‘John’ had various narcotics racing through his system, and even at 0600 hrs, he was a jittering and [...]