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It was just like a scene from police, camera, action.

There I am on another ANPR op (I do admit I am loving the ANPR, gets quite a range of work) and I'm with another special doing some spotting when a MOP tells us that a van has been broken into a few yards down the road, so we take a wander and sure enough a van with a smashed side window and the ignition had been tampered with. So we've had a look round the van the my collegue is doing the vehicle checks while I'm just chatting in general with the sergeant when theres a sudden screach of brakes and WALLOP! a car comes flying over from the other side of the road straight into the van we're checking out.

Luckily noone was injured but the poor van driver will be coming back to find a smashed window one side and a loverly dented wing on the other.

On another more sinister subject I was speaking to one of my police staff collegues today who also works as a special in the same station I'm in (attested after me). He was on a duty last night after the ANPR with the special inspector and a few other specials. He found himself put on a road closure by himself with a non functioning radio and ended up being surrounded by a hostile crowd of residents unhappy about the road closure. I am so glad my transfer is going through as it is another prime example of why I dont want to work here anymore. Surely an inspector should know better than putting a new special on his own without a radio when he doesnt even hve independant patrol status.

As I said though my transfers going through, its been authorised by the inspector now so I should be moving very soon and hopefully a load more blog enteries as I start enjoying going out again ;)

Another blog gone? Lennie Briscoe (specialcopper) seems to have disapeared :( anyone know whats happened?

On another note I'm putting in for a transfer to another station, dont know how much I'll be doing while thats going through. Have another ANPR later this month which should be interesting.

Just generally fedup with where I'm working, the PC's & specials are great, just had enough of some of the management and general lack of communication. I know the grass always seems greener but everyone else I speak to seems happier in their station than I am and others I talked to in my station seem just as unhappy.

Not bothered airing my feelings though, I've been in the force long enough to know that nothing changes.

I think autoforwarding emails is a bad idea in general but when put in the hands of stupid people its even worse.

I come from an IT background and have quite an unfortunate reputation in my police staff job as being able to sort anything. Whilst its nice to be apreciated at the same time its a mega pain in the arse, especially when you have just been given a huge task by the inspector to be completed in a rediculously short timescale you get a phone call from someone in another office you never heard off... "Hi is that vic?" "I was told you can help with the compuer, its not working correctly".

Now my role isnt IT bassed anyway, I have some admin rights in respect to my office to get things changed without bugging IT as I'm trusted not to bugger it up, but in the whole if it is an actuall problem I cant do anything anyway. Normally though its not a problem and someones just clicking on the wrong button so I help out.

Back to autoforwarding I get a sergeant come in a bit flustered, one of his old team members has been moved to a new acting sergeant and his having trouble with them. I know the acting sergeant and I have to say he is definatly a waste of a good uniform. Now this team member is on annual leave for a week and before he went he sent a list of things the A/PS has done to annoy him and some being quite blunt as in "he sits on his arse doing fuck all". So his old PS has had a word with the inspector about all the trouble and inspectors looking into it so he replied to say its being looked into including the officers original email.

In comes the out of office reply "I am away until xxx this email has been autoforwarded to A/PS xxx"

Now the his old PS is shitting a brick and wants to know how to delete the email. Our systems do have a pull back system for emails but it dont work when forwarded, pulling it back would only delete the original sent to the officer, not the copy forwarded to the A/PS.

Me personally, I'd never autoforward my emails, but to send out an email the day before you go on holiday with that sort of content then setting up your emails to forward to the person your talking about is just plain dumb.