What an incredible waste of time, energy, effort and tax-payer money!
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How can I lodge a private case against the IOPC for wasting police time?
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Or a judicial review?
You canāt, you donāt have āStandingā.
Standing requires you to have been personally affected by a decision, in order to review it.
Plus some exceptions for public interest groups.
Rather than just my tax money affected?
Yes.
Donāt pull at that thread, Christ, we canāt get court hearings this year as it is
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I believe thatās the IOPC tagline.
I know of a job at the moment (I canāt go into details) where there is absolutely 0% chance of a succesful conviction, but itās still been sent to CPS. We reckon once itās all done and dusted (court and inevitable gross misconduct hearing) it will be late 2028 or 2029 and the officers will have been off the streets for upto 6 years.
I had a warning for 2026 last summer.
For London that was fast.
I would say book your holidays off early, but to be honest, we donāt even look at witness availability anymore.
Itās too far ahead to book holiday, they canāt even show it on the system itās that far ahead.
Because whatās the point. With that passage of time their memories are next to worthless anyway. Iām now listing cases for 2029, itās farcical
2029! Damn.
Admittedly thatās for a 10+ day hearing at my centre which is much worse than everywhere else for backlog
GMG: The endless amount of quarantine emails from the same email spam senderer that I have blocked still coming at me 
Is anyone else have horrific hayfever atm
Something that may become a separate conversation, but GMG - the inability of todayās young adults to take initiative.
Iām finding that many young adults today appear to lack the ability to solve problems for themselves, and expect leaders to jump in and save the day. This manifests itself in a number of different ways; last-minute requests for routine items, phone calls about items that havenāt quite gone to plan etc etc.
I suspect Covid played a large part in this - many of the young adults that Iām currently working with would have been 15-19 when Covid hit; a time thatās critical for establishing individual identities and pushing boundaries, but Iām wondering whether any of you are noticing the same pattern - perhaps with newer CFAV, for example?
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I feel this.
Now I am a āgrown-upā, half my conversations are around how it wasnāt like that in my dayā¦ Iām not sure if Iām getting old, or the newer generation are like this.
Example is we have a line book to complete to get experience on type. When I first got to my current squadron, it took me 2 weeks. Someone I arrived with took 5 months to complete it and required an interview with the then WO as to why it took so long. The other two did it in the three month limit.
I donāt think itās COVID. I think more the whole instant gratification thing.
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When I was an ICU shift boss, when a member of staff asked me what they should do with a patient, I used to flip the question back at them with ā what do you want to doā and get them to work through the problem, using it as a learning experience for them.
Yep!
Tree pollen I think, the whole area is covered in fluffy stuff coming off the trees and Iām an itchy, snotty, runny eyes mess.
Not horrific, but fully controlled by Co-Op / Tesco Hayfever drugs.
Thatās a fair comment; the current generation coming through have basically always had a smartphone and social media, so they would be more used to instant responses. Definitely could explain the difference in communication styles and expectations.
Had one of my current bunch tell me that I had to be available 24/7 for them via phone, and that them having forgotten to have done something until the last minute made it an emergency. Had to compose myself before responding to that one.
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