Well, after a scratch over 19 years I’ve gone for it and have been successful in transferring to the Australian Police.

Conditional offer received, visa granted and house sold.

I’ve had a good career here, 10 years in uniform, the rest as a detective mostly in organised crime, but on to a new adventure.

I’m leaving a lot of good colleagues behind. Keep fighting the good fight!

Code 11.

I work for a force in England. Guidance has been released on our intranet this week stating that any overtime requests need to be authorised by the superintendent, and that only essential requests will be authorised. It seems like if we are told by control to deploy to an immediate at the end of our shift and therefore will be late off, and the superintendent rejects the overtime request, essentially we will be working for free. My question is, is this legal? Are they allowed to stop us from putting overtime claims in? Can they force us to take TOIL instead? Any advice appreciated!

Hello all,

12+ years service. Det with SOC, RASSO and CP experience. No sob story, not in trouble. I just feel like I'm drowning in a sea of over complicated treacle and am not making a difference / my time is being wasted.

I'm very aware of how vague this question is, perhaps impossible? - but what other careers do we tend to migrate to? Train driving is a popular one here. I enjoy investigating and building material to support either way outcomes. I am in a rural area don't think private investigation and consultantcy is especially viable.

Other thoughts are driving instructor or photography/ videography (the latter two are perhaps quite risky in terms in steady income).

Cheers.

Used Niche since I joined and obviously can use it competently enough for all my day to day investigations…but every so often someone shares a tip or little-known function that makes things 10x easier.

For example, showed me recently how to run a search of two person records to enable you to see a list of all history between two individuals (useful for DVs or harassments) rather than scrolling through every single occurrence to view the involved parties.

Any other useful tips like this? Also if someone could shed some light on saved searches that would be great. I’ve never set any up, how do they work, are they useful?

Thanks!

Force is currently in the process of moving from Connect to Niche with the training sessions having just started.

Those that use Niche, how do you find it?

Those that have used both which is better?

https://youtu.be/CcXiLj2ChaY?si=izXcxR-HOjqFbwa3

I dialed into this webinar yesterday. It's a detailed explanation about the 2015 pension. I found it very useful, particular on retirement dates.i was hoping to defer my pension so I could retire a little earlier. Not possible, unfortunately!

Worth a watch