Policy Matters

In the police, whenever events take a surprising turn, sergeants and inspectors can console themselves with the thought that the answers to all their questions can be found in the Force Policies. These are also known as Standard Operating Procedures. Or maybe that's something different - no one really knows.

If, as a supervisor, you do what the POLICY says, no matter how things turn out you can never be blamed. You might think most policies relate to firearms incidents, bombs and murders, but you'd be wrong. It was long since identified that the things police officers find hardest to do is to kick out crap officers, respect minorities in the workplace and, apparently, to deal with people having sex in public. Hence a glut of policies that should be strictly adhered to as soon as a PC has a slight headache or fancies someone on their team.

This can be a lot of reading, especially if someone has a headache at the same time as a bomb goes off elsewhere. Fortunately, as a Woman, I can read all the policies simultaneously and still justify doing something totally different.

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