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.