View from the beach (bar) ……
…….. the “Newbie Wobble” from Carl Mason I left UK Policing two years ago and now work in the Caribbean, sitting on a beach most days, shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice, with goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes – it’s fun, fun, fun…. Actually, that last bit isn’t quite true. I work – […]
Life beyond the cocoon
Martin Mitchell, one of our favourites here at PiPS, has kindly penned his thoughts on where he is now, nearly a year into retirement. Martin had a wonderfully successfully career in policing, is as sharp as a tack and jolly nice too. And yet, even he has faced unexpected challenges. As you read this please […]
A call to arms – and a ‘Bacon Sandwich’
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” Francis Bacon What’s the best way to ‘move on’ from The Job? And ‘exactly how’ do you get started? Well, here’s me – not long retired, and, (like many of you), finding my way in the big wide world, finally out of an organisation that has […]
Hold your nerve; steady as she blows!
So as we reach the end of 2012, our second year, I am reflecting back on a busy year for PiPS and I wondered if I could I would wave a magic wand on behalf of our members, what would I hope for on their behalf? Bizarrely perhaps, I do not think I would magic all […]
What if you could not fail?
A post on the LinkedIn group brought this topic to my mind, the old question asks “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” It is a way, as you will know, of getting people to recognise how much fear can hold them back. It is a good exercise for […]
You know you have left policing when …
Whilst out and about, you find yourself patting your pocket/checking your bag in a panic because you have forgotten your warrant card, only to realize you no longer have one; OR you regularly imagine what you’re going to say to an officer, when he finds you still have your warrant card in your pocket; you […]
No cough, no job.
If ever there was a transferable phrase from Policing argot into the real world, it must be this. “No cough…no job” would be the standard response from the seasoned Detective, when they saw just how little evidence you had to bolster your reasonable suspicion justifying an arrest. Originally intended to denote an offence lacking substantive […]
Sawubona
I have always liked this Zulu greeting – it means ‘we see you’ and is used in the same way we might offer ‘how do you do’. You might observe that there is little difference in our greeting but this Zulu acknowledgement seems to understand human nature a little more. It is a profound […]
What next for you?
Which way to go? All the problems with G4S just before the Olympics made me consider a variety of points. How,even what appears to be potentially a great ‘go to’ employer can fail to deliver; we know of course that the expression ‘too big to fail’ is a misnomer. But actually, it appears their size, talked […]
Preparation or procrastination?
We all need to prepare to do well but how you know when this has just moved into procrastination