Patrol 9th November 2012

Good evening everyone,

Thanks again for having a look at my blog, I am sorry for the delay in putting anything up but I have been very busy recently.

I went out on shift this Friday, at the start of the shift (around 5pm) I kitted up and went into the briefing room. There were a few regulars in already and I even got offered some cake! We all got briefed and I was paired up with another Special on some enquiries for the first part of the shift. I got hold of some keys to a van and we headed out to try and complete our enquiries. Unfortunately the person we wanted to see wasn't at home so we carried on with our patrol. We had the laser speed detection device with us so we decided to do some speed reduction patrols in some local areas. We sat up at the first place for a matter of minutes and a member of the public in their vehicle came down the road. This vehicle also had a headlight and tail light out. I also noticed the driver had his fog lights on. We stopped the vehicle and spoke to the driver he was very apologetic and got a VDRS (Vehicle Defect Rectification Scheme,) for the lights that were out. (A VDRS is a form that is filled in by us for a driver to get defects on their vehicle fixed. When they have had it fixed they get the form stamped at a garage and send it back to us. There is not fine with it if they send the form back!) 

We carried on with our patrol checking some local hot spots for anti social behaviour, there weren't many people around the areas so we got out and had a walk, people always comment how they like to see a bobby on the street so I always try to get out on foot when I can. Around about 2000 we had reports come in that a male was causing a nuisance in a local town so we travelled over to talk to him. After several trips there and back another patrol finally spoke to this male around 21:30 and informed him of the error of his ways! The male then went home without further problems.

At around 22:30 I dropped my colleague off as he was finishing some paperwork and I headed out into town. The centre of town was starting to busy up and the people were pouring out of the pubs. I had a drive round and spoke to a few people around town. I was just about to head back in to finish at 23:50 when a call came in about disorder in a local pub. I drove down there and saw several patrols already on the scene. A male was shouting at the dog handler and using some very choice language. I decided to give him a Section 27 disorder notice. This notice is designed as an alternative to arrest for those involved in alcohol related disorder, a person is given this form and is banned from the particular area for a period up to 48 hours. I gave this male a banning order for the next 10 hours and he left without a problem.

I travelled back in and updated the computer with everything I had been doing. I then booked off duty and went home! Hopefully the shift will be as lively next week! 

Thanks again for reading.

Nick.