Taken Redundancy.
Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 00:54
Hi chaps,
just to let you know I am taking voluntary redundancy and my last working day will be 27 October. There are many changes being made including a new shift pattern but due to heart disease and suffering considerable pain with my spine I have decided to call it a day and head into premature retirement!! So if you feel you need to insult or abuse me verbally then you’d better hurry up as the downside to all this is that in all probability the County Council will close our local library soon (as rumour has it) so the only time I will get to read your posts is when I go to see my stepson and borrow his laptop. The main library in Lincoln has computers but in the past I have spent hours waiting for one and sometimes not been able to so just a waste of time going there. Anyway, enough of that!!
So, at the grand age of 62 they are giving me a full pension and that will help enormously until I can claim my state pension in 3 years’ time. For the past seventeen and a half years I have been monitoring the streets of our fair City and have seen many changes over the years not only to the way the police operate but also in having a university built and open up to masses of students, also the change in licensing laws allowing clubs and bars to stay open longer and later.
To my mind and from experience, I think that this was one of our then government’s biggest mistakes!! But what the hell, politicians are blind as to the problems this has caused in the way of costs to the police in extra hours of manpower, not to mention the overstretched services of the NHS in dealing with cases of excess alcohol, I have lost count of the number of times I have had to alert the ambulance service to incidents of over consumption!! Apart from dealing with many incidents including fatal RTCs’ sudden deaths, suicides, fights, drunk drivers, robberies etc though I won’t bore you with any more details, I have enjoyed my work and got to know many of the officers and have even been out on shift with them a couple of times with a number of blue light deployments. It is one thing watching the police on TV dealing with an incident involving drunk and aggressive individuals after an incident but a completely different experience when actually there I can tell you, not something I would want to face regularly as they do. So next time you see an officer about, give him or her...... a big smile!!
So there you are guys, I’m still going to be around regularly for the next month or so, long enough to give you lot some grief.
Regards
Nigel.
just to let you know I am taking voluntary redundancy and my last working day will be 27 October. There are many changes being made including a new shift pattern but due to heart disease and suffering considerable pain with my spine I have decided to call it a day and head into premature retirement!! So if you feel you need to insult or abuse me verbally then you’d better hurry up as the downside to all this is that in all probability the County Council will close our local library soon (as rumour has it) so the only time I will get to read your posts is when I go to see my stepson and borrow his laptop. The main library in Lincoln has computers but in the past I have spent hours waiting for one and sometimes not been able to so just a waste of time going there. Anyway, enough of that!!
So, at the grand age of 62 they are giving me a full pension and that will help enormously until I can claim my state pension in 3 years’ time. For the past seventeen and a half years I have been monitoring the streets of our fair City and have seen many changes over the years not only to the way the police operate but also in having a university built and open up to masses of students, also the change in licensing laws allowing clubs and bars to stay open longer and later.
To my mind and from experience, I think that this was one of our then government’s biggest mistakes!! But what the hell, politicians are blind as to the problems this has caused in the way of costs to the police in extra hours of manpower, not to mention the overstretched services of the NHS in dealing with cases of excess alcohol, I have lost count of the number of times I have had to alert the ambulance service to incidents of over consumption!! Apart from dealing with many incidents including fatal RTCs’ sudden deaths, suicides, fights, drunk drivers, robberies etc though I won’t bore you with any more details, I have enjoyed my work and got to know many of the officers and have even been out on shift with them a couple of times with a number of blue light deployments. It is one thing watching the police on TV dealing with an incident involving drunk and aggressive individuals after an incident but a completely different experience when actually there I can tell you, not something I would want to face regularly as they do. So next time you see an officer about, give him or her...... a big smile!!
So there you are guys, I’m still going to be around regularly for the next month or so, long enough to give you lot some grief.
Regards
Nigel.