Having spent some 2 and a bit months off nursing my ankle injury, I have returned to work. It's funny because for some reason I thought I had missed out on something in all those weeks off, however it would appear that I have been somewhat naive.
Today I have been involved in a suspect making off (actually I just listened to the radio, willing the bad guys to keep running in order to justify use of the force chopper at something like £20k per 20 minutes of flying), trying to glean information out of a very excitable Lithuanian gentleman over the phone, deleting 470 emails without reading them (I deduced if it wasn't sent to me direct, I didn't need to know about it - that left me with only 231 to go through), convincing my new sergeant that sending me out single crewed whilst still on restricted was probably against force policy and lastly, and worst of all, listening to Desree who is 3 months pregnant who gave me an overview of who is great / not so great on shift. She also instructed me on how to complete an MG file. Very kind of her, her nine months service clearly trumps mine which is in double figures (years not months). I know my place.
Whilst on the road to recovery I read 'Diary of an on call girl' by PC Bloggs. It was a good read, pretty much everything in it I can relate to in some way and I recommend it. That is, unless you're a probationer or wanna be recruit. If you read this book then expect it to depress you or put you off public service for life (I suspect that the government is trying it's best to do that anyways). Rather than tales of derring do, it is a pretty good reflection on life as a shift worker on a response shift. It makes no apologies for being raw and real. It deals with job relationships, the impact of shift work on the mind and body and how bureaucratic the system has become. Im convinced the same people work in Bloggsy's crime management dept as they do in mine.
Read this book and become a police officer only if you're mad, bad or have a really, really GOOD sense of humour.
Thanks Bloggsy x
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2 days ago
glad to hear you are back at work, even if it is on restricted!! Get young Desree to read the white notes on 'teamaking for probationers' and tell her practise makes perfect!
ReplyDeleteI have Bloggsy book and I laffed my head off it was so true! It really is a great read.
Glad you hear you are ok and back at work. I enjoy reading your blog.
ReplyDeleteI know it's off...I know you may think it's wrong...but as a long-term prisoner of a privatised industry, if I had that amount of time off, for whatever reason, I'd be gone...honestly, more than a month off and they can get you out...and they do...
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