Nicknames

Whilst Mr Bill is very much accepted as part of the code he has yet to be bestowed with a nickname – there have been various suggestions made but, like “Shoulders” none have stuck. ‘Shoulders’, short for Teflon Shoulders as nothing (bad) sticks to him, is the nickname of one of Mr Bill’s colleagues. It seems every organisation has someone like this!

Mr Bill’s tutor believes very firmly in the student police officer seeing and doing as much as possible while on the 8-weeks and so the paperwork for the ordinary police work builds up. Mr Bill is now quite practised at several of the forms to be filled in. He has been complemented on his thoroughness by a couple of the others in the team. They continue to be amazed at his computer skills – it is scary really how little some of our Boys in Blue know of computers. It was a revelation to some that ‘Control C’ and then ‘Control V’ can be used to transfer text – the mouse cut and paste is disabled on most Police software – until now they have been typing in the text again – talk about wasting Police time.

Mr Bill has completed quite a few of his box-ticking exercises – some as a result of really worthwhile activity; he administered first aid to an elderly gentleman who fell as he was getting off a bus. An ambulance had to come some distance and so Mr Bill was ‘in charge’ for about 15 minutes.

Update

Mr Bill is well into his 8-week stint; he has been busy the last couple of weeks working a varied shift pattern of nights; evenings til 2am or 3am; and assorted days; with a few days off here and there. These have not really been days off as he is trying to get all his paperwork assembled so that he is ready to go on independent patrol in a few weeks. The paperwork is laborious and not straightforward; try and include too many skills and they are disallowed - it does not matter that you did use the skills you are trying to claim). Thus it will take the destruction of yet more trees before those in authority will be satisfied.

Mr Bill has been having some more experience of interviewing; he had his first ‘no comment’ interview where the young man, viewed on CCTV assaulting someone, was advised by his solicitor to offer, “No comment” to all 100 questions asked. That statement will be a lot of cut and paste, paste paste.


Mr Bill has so far avoided a cakeable offence; unlike one PC who dropped the Squad Car keys while performing a house search – only to find the person whose house they were searching had picked up the keys - he had been enjoying the discomfiture of the officers present. The mortification was complete once the story was spread to the rest of the code and beyond........