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BBRINGINGRINGING MMETET PEOPLEPEOPLE TTOGETHEROGETHER January I 2010 THEJOB INSINSIDEIDE > ONE YEAR ON... Sir Paul talks about his firstfirst year as Commissioner TOGTOGETHERETHER AS ONE HoHoww staff associassociationsations helphelp the Met and public What’s cooking? METKITCMETKITCHENHEN AIMS TO WHET YOUR APPETITEAPPETITE 01 Cover V2 The Job44.indd 1 11/12/0911/12/09 23:28:54 CONTENTS JANUARY 2010 Editor COVER: NICK GRIGG Jon Watkins Tel: 020 7775 5733 THE FRONT LINE Deputy Editor The Steve DeVries Tel: 020 7775 5734 Art Director Sundeep Bhui Editor Picture Editor Martha Gittens Picture Researcher Welcome to the latest issue of The Job, Anna Wilkins and a very happy NewYear to you all. Chief Sub Steve McCubbin A new year brings a fresh start and new Deputy Chief Sub ways of looking at things. Christina Ryder It’s fitting, then, that this month we went 8 All in order Senior Sub Darren Barrett along to meet Commander Bob Broadhurst, Your questions answered on the Head of who heads up public-order policing in the future of public-order policing Public Sector Steve McGrath Met, to ask him your questions on how Creative Director things are likely to change over the coming Michael Booth STAFF ASSOCIATIONS Account Manager 12 months and beyond. Sian Dudley As you’ll see from our feature on page 8, Acting Production Director Cmdr Broadhurst gave us some candid views Mike Lamb on public-order policing.Thanks to all of you Production Controller who sent in questions to put to him. Gemma Pickering This issue is a bit of a question-and- Finance Director Roger Baker answer special and we aren’t just looking Directors forward, either.I also went along to ask the Simon Chappell Peter Dean Commissioner about his first 12 months Chief Executive in the job. It has been a busy time. We talked 12 Strength in numbers Sean King about how taking over last January has How the different staff associations Chairman Mike Potter changed Sir Paul’s view of the Met, and what help the Met and the public Advertising has surprised him most. See our interview Richard Ibbotson Tel: 020 7775 5714 starting on page 18. Email: Richard. CATERING Ibbotson@seven Finally, this issue we also cover the rollout squared.co.uk of MetKitchen and MetCafé, two new brands being used to herald a new era for catering Published by Seven Squared for the services across the organisation. Metropolitan Police Service, Directorate of Public Affairs, New Scotland Yard. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the permission of the editor.January 2010. © Metropolitan Jon Watkins, Police Authority 2010. Editor Seven Squared, Sea 16 Something’s cooking Containers House, IF YOU REQUIRE A COPY OF THE JOB IN AN ALTERNATIVE 20 Upper Ground, FORMAT, PLEASE CONTACT THE DPA ON 63455. THE JOB IS London, SE1 9PD. The Catering Services improVement Tel: 020 7775 5777. ALSO AVAILABLE ON THE MPS INTRANET AND PUBLIC WEBSITE Fax: 020 7775 5711. (WWW.MET.POLICE.UK). programme has big things in store Email The Job via Aware. The advertisements featured in The Job are those of the advertisers and are NEWS FEATURES BOROUGH REFS not endorsed by the Metropolitan Police 4 On the beat 18 A year in the job 22 Sapphire success 27 Against the Wall Service (MPS). New equipment The Commissioner Team’s hard work Three officers run tested for officers on 12 months at sees paedophile length of Hadrian’s on single patrol the top sentenced to jail famous barrier 5 The first degree 20 Stop the horror 24 Brown’s around 32 Sloping forward Future of forensics New guidance PM congratulates Catch-up with means certified to tackle female Lewisham officer the Met Ski and courses for staff genital mutilation in person Snowboard Club 03 Contents V2 The Job44.indd 3 11/12/09 23:37:16 4 News | In focus New tools for single patrol Equipment being tested to help protect officers on the beat Help at hand: single very borough in the patrol is the Met’s The risk assessments are part of Single patrol also increases the Met has now submitted default way for a raft of things being done to assist cost-effectiveness of patrolling officers. officers to patrol a plan for delivering officers on single patrol. The Met is Currently, 78 per cent of the MPS E effective patrol and testing technology to further support budget goes on people, but single patrol carried out risk assessments to patrolling officers, for example. Officers can help raise the number of patrols. determine when and where uniformed from Kensington and Chelsea are Research carried out by the Met officers and staff should and using the Automated Personal Location revealed there were, on average, shouldn’t carry out single patrol. Single patrol is the default way for When officers are walking in pairs it officers to patrol. The Met believes single patrols boost public confidence can give the public the impression by making officers more visible and, as they are ‘strolling’, not patrolling a result, more accessible to the public. It also shows single patrols improve the way the Met engages with people. System (APLS). Other boroughs 5.5 extra patrols per day in each “When officers are walking together, will be getting the system shortly. borough where single patrol was some members of the public don’t “APLS enables boroughs to manage being deployed – around 176 extra want to interrupt them and feel resources more effectively,” says patrols across London every day. they are unapproachable,” explains Supt Stalker. It is a software tool that The Met wants to have ten extra Superintendent Paul Stalker, from enables the operator to identify the patrols a day in each borough, and TP Patrol OCU.“Always walking in approximate location and status of is looking at ways to release more pairs can also give the impression all officers on foot, in a similar way to officers and recruit more Specials to that officers are ‘strolling’, not how MDT works for vehicles, using accomplish this. Such an increase patrolling, so single patrol is more the global positioning system (GPS) would lead to about 64,000 extra appropriate in most circumstances.” present in the Airwave handset. patrols in Greater London each year. THEJOB | JANUARY 2010 04-06 News The Job44.indd 4 9/12/09 21:15:18 In focus | News 5 TRAINING DOGS Taking forensics a degree further... New university accreditations mean officers can obtain degrees et staff who are disciplines are being rolled out as trained in the they’re developed and approved different disciplines by the university.The Crime Scene M of forensics will Examination degree has recently earn official university-level been validated. Degrees for forensic qualifications in the future. imaging, scientists and laboratory A new foundation degree programme workers, and fireaRms officers will be has been developed with Teesside approved in the coming months. University, offering academic “These foundation degrees sit qualifications in five areas of forensics. inside a bigger picture of what’s “In the past, we’d give trainees Met happening in forensic science certificates that recognised what they’d at the moment,” says Karen. done, but we’ve never before had an A foundation degree will be external body scrutinising how we train mandatory for all new members of our people,” says Karen Georgiou, forensics staff, while the lessons for Head of Forensic Development in the current trainees are being worked Directorate of Forensic Services. into the developing curriculum. That’s not to say that earlier training Existing staff can earn their degree Strong arm of the law: was in any way inferior, she explains, in a shorter time through what’s called one of the competing dogs takes a bite out but the government has mandated the Expert Route. “It’s so those people of crime that police develop programmes that who didn’t have the opportunity to go are accessible by academic partners. to university when they were younger “We’re now training staff differently, – for whatever reason – will get the incorporating important things for opportunity to earn that academic Leading the pack policing such as customer focus, acknowledgement,” says Karen. and how officers can add value at In future, staff will be able to apply Canines compete for a shot every opportunity in the investigative for lateral development, which will give at next year’s national trials process,” says Karen. “It also experts in one discipline a chance to ensures that evidence brought earn a foundation degree in another. t was no easy feat deciding who would be top dog to court is of optimum value.” Karen says: “What we’re doing, then, at the fourth annual South East Police Dog Trials The fiRst graduate of the programme is building more resilience in our recently. The three-day competition pitted was Alex Perrin, who received workforce – training staff who are I14 dogs – 12 Met dogs from Catford and two from her degree for Fingerprinting, in experts in one discipline, but have a the Ministry of Defence – against each other in a series November. Degrees in the other greater understanding of another.” of competitions. They were tested on tracking, searching for people, criminal work and obedience at different venues in Keston and Bromley. The Met dogs and their handlers were recently featured on the ITV show Send in the Dogs. “The trials give both the handler and the dog a chance to do extra training,” says PC Dave Drake, one of the organisers. “All of the competitions are based on what is expected of them. They have to find someone who’s hiding, locate lost or stolen items, and chase and restrain a fleeing criminal.” The overall winners were PC Gordon Walker and his dog Charlie.

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