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Ugh.
I have sinus infection, but also I think I am getting a cold/flu - everything hurts :( I'm pretty sure it's not swine flu, have no fear!
I think it's mainly just because work is stressful and I'm not sleeping well because of the heat/my hip.
I am going camping to Tewkesbury Medieval Festival this weekend! YAY medievaling! Let's hope it's not Muddyevaling ... I'm hoping it doesn't piss it down cos I've not slept in my new/old medieval style canvas tent before!!!
I've got a lot to do before I go though, and work is INSANELY busy!
I've graduated from filtering to controlling in my training ... which is a massive difference (and only for people who are deemed to be doing well, I know, shock, me doing well at something!) (I wasn't really expecting it to be) , being effectively in charge of incidents, rather than on the periphery. I am now being asked for instructions from 15 different people at once. Trying to find resources for jobs. Remembering where officers are and keeping an eye on them for their own safety. Liasing with FOUR DIFFERENT inspectors last night ... omg. I mean, I love it, but OMG!
Also, we had a death on the railway/suicide last night, which was an incredibly stressful job to run. She was alive when the first units got there, which cannot have been nice at all, and there were an awful lot of MOPs hanging about so it had to be a critical incident (meaning it will have a significant impact on the community).I really thought they'd pull me off it/hand it to someone else to run, but they left me on it and actually said I'd done a good job. So *shrug*. I need to have more confidence in myself. Everyone says I come across extremely confident, but a lot of the time I don't feel it.
I also had my first pursuit last night ... came to nothing, but in the first few minutes of a pursuit there is a SHEDLOAD to be done. Who's following it, why, have they actually TRIED to stop it, vehicle description and index, where is it going, road conditions, is the officer suitably pursuit trained, in a suitable car etc etc etc ... all this in the first SECONDS after the shout comes in. It's bloody hard work. I keep giving myself a headache just thinking. I haven't had to think this hard in years ....
We also had another really griefy job come in whilst the the railway one was running (so no units, because I'd sent them all to that, as is procedure, flood it with units until we've determined what's going on and how many you need there, you can always pull units off it afterwards). It came in as an assault. But turned into an honour-based kidnapping, with a lot of Bangladeshi family members screaming at my poor officer to sort it out. Then, half an hour into the job the two officers at scene went offline. They were not answering radio hails, PTP (which is individual radios) their airwaves sets (like mobiles over the radio) or their individual mobiles. Then one of officers picked up his mobile and put it down without speaking. I phoned the original informant on his own phone to try and get them and he picked the phone up and slammed it down... Cue two units on an immediate to check our officers weren't dead or something!! OMG. They were fine. Just so many people shouting at them they couldn't hear anything, but oh my heart! Bloody hell. We ended up with about 10 officers there to sort everything out, then with another load at an address in Watford to sort things out there as that's where the offenders had gone .... it was all fine in the end, but crikey, how to terrify the newbie!
Also, I think I'm going to have to pull out of my OU course. I just do not have the time to do it. I think I'm going to have to contact my advisor and discuss it. When I signed up, I had lot of free time at work. Last night I got to work at 1600 and did not stand up, get a drink, do a wee, or look away from my computer/radio for 6 hours .... I simply don't have the same amount of time anymore.
Oh yeah. This is pretty cool: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8136986.stm
First time we've done that! Discharge a baton round I mean. It's basically a high powered air rifle that discharges a plastic baton. It's pretty solid though, and the best place to aim for is the abdomen (as hitting the chest can stop the heart) but that can cause internal injuries... so despite it being safer than actual guns or even tasers, it's still pretty dangerous! Everyone was pleased it went well!
Oh yeah. I've always wondered if I'm the only person who does this ... I can really like someone/have a crush on them, think they're wonderful etcetc. Then they'll do/say something, something completely random, or maybe react to something in a way I didn't anticipate and it'll be *ping* and my opinion of them will have completely changed, completely, and I can't understand why I liked them in the first place .... does that happen to other people? Or am I just incredibly odd?!
I have sinus infection, but also I think I am getting a cold/flu - everything hurts :( I'm pretty sure it's not swine flu, have no fear!
I think it's mainly just because work is stressful and I'm not sleeping well because of the heat/my hip.
I am going camping to Tewkesbury Medieval Festival this weekend! YAY medievaling! Let's hope it's not Muddyevaling ... I'm hoping it doesn't piss it down cos I've not slept in my new/old medieval style canvas tent before!!!
I've got a lot to do before I go though, and work is INSANELY busy!
I've graduated from filtering to controlling in my training ... which is a massive difference (and only for people who are deemed to be doing well, I know, shock, me doing well at something!) (I wasn't really expecting it to be) , being effectively in charge of incidents, rather than on the periphery. I am now being asked for instructions from 15 different people at once. Trying to find resources for jobs. Remembering where officers are and keeping an eye on them for their own safety. Liasing with FOUR DIFFERENT inspectors last night ... omg. I mean, I love it, but OMG!
Also, we had a death on the railway/suicide last night, which was an incredibly stressful job to run. She was alive when the first units got there, which cannot have been nice at all, and there were an awful lot of MOPs hanging about so it had to be a critical incident (meaning it will have a significant impact on the community).I really thought they'd pull me off it/hand it to someone else to run, but they left me on it and actually said I'd done a good job. So *shrug*. I need to have more confidence in myself. Everyone says I come across extremely confident, but a lot of the time I don't feel it.
I also had my first pursuit last night ... came to nothing, but in the first few minutes of a pursuit there is a SHEDLOAD to be done. Who's following it, why, have they actually TRIED to stop it, vehicle description and index, where is it going, road conditions, is the officer suitably pursuit trained, in a suitable car etc etc etc ... all this in the first SECONDS after the shout comes in. It's bloody hard work. I keep giving myself a headache just thinking. I haven't had to think this hard in years ....
We also had another really griefy job come in whilst the the railway one was running (so no units, because I'd sent them all to that, as is procedure, flood it with units until we've determined what's going on and how many you need there, you can always pull units off it afterwards). It came in as an assault. But turned into an honour-based kidnapping, with a lot of Bangladeshi family members screaming at my poor officer to sort it out. Then, half an hour into the job the two officers at scene went offline. They were not answering radio hails, PTP (which is individual radios) their airwaves sets (like mobiles over the radio) or their individual mobiles. Then one of officers picked up his mobile and put it down without speaking. I phoned the original informant on his own phone to try and get them and he picked the phone up and slammed it down... Cue two units on an immediate to check our officers weren't dead or something!! OMG. They were fine. Just so many people shouting at them they couldn't hear anything, but oh my heart! Bloody hell. We ended up with about 10 officers there to sort everything out, then with another load at an address in Watford to sort things out there as that's where the offenders had gone .... it was all fine in the end, but crikey, how to terrify the newbie!
Also, I think I'm going to have to pull out of my OU course. I just do not have the time to do it. I think I'm going to have to contact my advisor and discuss it. When I signed up, I had lot of free time at work. Last night I got to work at 1600 and did not stand up, get a drink, do a wee, or look away from my computer/radio for 6 hours .... I simply don't have the same amount of time anymore.
Oh yeah. This is pretty cool: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/8136986.stm
First time we've done that! Discharge a baton round I mean. It's basically a high powered air rifle that discharges a plastic baton. It's pretty solid though, and the best place to aim for is the abdomen (as hitting the chest can stop the heart) but that can cause internal injuries... so despite it being safer than actual guns or even tasers, it's still pretty dangerous! Everyone was pleased it went well!
Oh yeah. I've always wondered if I'm the only person who does this ... I can really like someone/have a crush on them, think they're wonderful etcetc. Then they'll do/say something, something completely random, or maybe react to something in a way I didn't anticipate and it'll be *ping* and my opinion of them will have completely changed, completely, and I can't understand why I liked them in the first place .... does that happen to other people? Or am I just incredibly odd?!