r/policeuk

My force is currently going through a stage of "staffing by accountancy"..... whereas they have drastically reduced the staffing level on nights and are constantly dropping more than half of the shift from nights to backs.

They tried to badge it up as resourcing needs, which initially washed, but it's now apparent that it's purely an accountancy process to save money (e.g. they even dropped a sgt from night to back, even though bans Sgts were all in).

The point has been raised that the force should maybe still be paying those cops on drop backs their full Unsocial Hours Allowance (10 hours instead of 3) as it's not their fault they've been dropped back and are losing out.

Has any other force done similar?

Your a male police officer, you’ve spotted a male who’s known to carry drugs and weapons (such as knifes), you can see a female with him from the distance as your approaching, after he sees you, he passes items onto her; in which you slightly see she’s tucked in her bra. You stop them both and detain them while more units are on-route, the nearest female officer is 20+mins away and you found nothing on the male, despite you positively knowing he had to have had something, you then remember what the girl did as you approached.

WOULD you search her bra or risk waiting for a female officer to arrive?

Looking for a bit of advice. I had a job in my queue a few weeks ago in which a car has “swerved to avoid a deer” and collided with the kerb and fencing. Causing significant damage.

I sent a NiP to the keeper which has been unreturned and now suddenly the keeper has emailed me begging me to drop the case because she contacted police. This is just as the 28 day time frame has expired

I had not received any correspondence from our call handlers though there is a note on the log saying she called saying she swerved to avoid a deer and wanted the log number for her car to be released.

She has not returned the form in the expected format with the time frame required so I expect a summons for failure to identify the driver is the next route to me.
Would a prosecution still hold up given she hasn’t signed the NiP or shall I have to drop it?