Sorry for the lack of updates, but we’ve been quiet recently. Yes, damnit, I’ve had enough, I want to go on a callout now. So where am I today? Well, about the time that this will hit the Internet, I’ll be in Lima in central London. Somewhere around Westminster. No, it’s not a rescue, it’s […]
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There’s a general superstition in the emergency services over the use of a certain q-word. Indeed, both Lynfa and Sean are known for being “responsible” for a callout having used the said word immediately prior to the pagers going off. Lynfa in particular seems to be the team jinx for callouts. But it’s been…well…y’know…recently. Nothing […]
Happy St David’s day to you all. In other news, everything’s been confirmed with the new job and I’m now heading for the second week of my notice period. I haven’t published the new company’s name for now for obvious reasons, but I’m sure most of you can either work it out or know me […]
This is the long-awaited second part of this post last month asking my readers what you would do as a search manager. Apologies for the delay – Real Life managed to get in the way. So what did you do? First of all, he’s done nothing wrong. The Police have a remit to preserve life […]
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Last week was interesting. I’ve had an incredible view that most people don’t get not inly into police work in general, but also into the method of driving that the police use. Since the 1930’s the police of the UK have been using a system of car driving invented by a racing driver who was […]
Sorry for not posting this until Saturday, but after the course I drove to Aberystwyth only to find the A44 closed because of a fatal incident and I had to detour via Machynlleth. The day started with some miserable weather yesterday – plenty of rain, which is just what I didn’t want for the last […]
Today was our first day spent entirely on the road, and boy was it great. We’ve been driving a little Mondeo hatchback ST, a diesel model, and once we’d finished our POWER checks this morning, we got going and headed out to the M4. As usual with my colleagues on the course, I was volunteered to […]
So after two days of police driver training, my driving is already immeasurably improved. The course that we’re on is a special course designed by South Wales police to allow Mountain Rescue personnel to respond safely on blue lights to incidents. It’s a truncated version of the police basic driving course which usually takes 3 […]
Friday turned out to be an interesting day around here. When I got up there was a dusting of fresh snow on the ground. As I drove into work, I was hearing reports of further snow falls but when I got to Cardiff, there wasn’t a huge amount on the ground. We got to work […]
So after a brief period of indecision while Ambulance Control, the Met Office and our Incident Controller were trying to work out what the weather was doing, it was decided that we should go on standby from midnight. So some 19 of us appeared up at base last night, with probably half of us being […]