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Cultural Competition Winner
Reflections on Policing
I am delighted to announce that Rob Stenhouse from Region 4 has won the Reflections on Policing
competition and a book will be winging its way to him. Below is an extract from his piece.
Please look out for further competitions.
W
e fill the gap as the world’s greatest coordinators
. Not particularly inspiring I know, but true! When you look at the things we do as police; we
problem solve! be it domestics, firearms events, street altercations, public safety, missing children, Riots, Road Traffic Collisions etc. everyone,
and I mean everyone looks to us to coordinate the actions to get the right people to the right place to solve whatever issue it happened to be.
That’s why we are first to get the blame for anything that goes wrong. Usually because WE didn’t coordinate every action conceivable to fix whatever the
problem was. So how does this affect us? Well, we become naturally adept
at taking charge of everything. However, the one thing we all share is our
richly light sense of humour!
Members Day
15 December 2017
Sean Hannigan the Vice President looking after
Culture would like to remind you to put the date in
your diary for the 2017 Members’ Day on Friday 15
December 2017, at IPA Uk HQ.
Oral History
Project
update
I thought it was time to update you on the progress
of the Oral History Project which has been running
for several months.
I
have been working closely with the National Archivist
Phillip
Powell and Brian Kennedy to bring the project to fruition. I think it
is vital we record our history so that others have access to it.
Brian Kennedy has been available to produce video interviews from
members and successfully completed 9 at the last Members Day.
There are 3 pocket memos available to any Branch or Region so that
you can record a short 5-minute interview with members. If you want to
have one of these then please e mail Sean at
vphannigan@ipa-uk.org .Possible questions and instructions are included.
M
embers Day will follow
a similar format to last
year
where the Archives
were opened and examined using
the great skills of Phillip and
Vivian Powell. Brian Kennedy
was also in attendance to
complete IPA video records to
add to the Oral History Project.
For further details, please
email Sean on
vphannigan@ipa-uk.orgor
telephone him on
07828 261174
.
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Cutlure Corner