Tommy Robinson: An Enemy Of The State?
Committee member and Law & Order Spokesman Mike Speakman, ex Deputy Chief Constable on the recent treatment of journalist and For Britain member Tommy Robinson. History is full of examples [...]
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04, 2022
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01, 2022
The “Rape Of Britain” Documentary From A Policing Perspective
For Britain Law & Order Spokesman, Committee member and ex Deputy Chief Constable Mike Speakman reacts to the Tommy Robinson Documentary "Rape of Britain" Tommy Robinson’s documentary about Telford shows [...]
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09, 2021
M25 Blockades
This blog is an extended version of a letter I sent to the Daily Telegraph for publication and to GB news. Both ignored it. I am a member of several [...]
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08, 2021
BANK HOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Issues We Face
Anne Marie Waters Monday 30th August 2021 It's been a busy weekend. It's been a weekend of variety: a variety of the most serious issues we face as a [...]
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06, 2021
Batley: Policing The By-Election
West Yorkshire Police are going to be very much under the spotlight in the forthcoming Batley and Spen by election. Not only is this probably the most contentious by election [...]
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03, 2021
Policing COVID
Policing is in turmoil and it all could have been avoided. Officers are demoralised and are leaving. I am not going to get into the detail of recent events, but [...]
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02, 2021
Police And Public Relationships
Whilst this is a well explored topic these days, I have been prompted to write this by comments passed by a serving police colleague. Apparently one fifth of all calls [...]
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02, 2021
SUNDAY COLUMN: Arming The Police
Anne Marie Waters Sunday February 7th 2021 I stated on a livestream recently that I would remove the policy of arming the police from For Britain's manifesto and ask [...]
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12, 2020
The Extension of Hate Crime Legislation
The Law Commission, a government quango set up to review our laws is currently looking at vastly extending hate crime legislation. They are proposing amongst a whole lot of other [...]
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11, 2020
Postal Vote Fraud
Given what is going on in America, now is a good time for the government to learn the lessons. As a young police constable in Liverpool in the 1960’s and [...]
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10, 2020
We Always Knew That Police & Crime Commissioners Were A Mistake
By Mike Speakman, Retired Deputy Chief Constable Policing, Law & Order Spokesman Many professionals from the police and other public bodies warned against the creation of Police and Crime Commissioners. [...]
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10, 2020
Two Tier Policing
Over the last few years we have seen increasing examples of how the British Police service has implemented two separate models of policing. This perversion of “one law for all” [...]
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09, 2020
SUNDAY COLUMN: Powerless Police
Anne Marie Waters September 27th 2020 A policeman has been shot dead in Croydon by a suspect who had been arrested and transported to custody. Somehow, through his arrest [...]
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09, 2020
The Police & Military Should Not Mix
Boris’s announcement that he will use the military to back up the police has quite rightly raised alarm across the political spectrum, and I think shows signs of confusion in [...]
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09, 2020
Facing The Future
Steven Porter, Mid Kent Chairman 1st September 2020 Love it or loath it, technology is now embedded in our daily lives. It's certainly not going away and we are all [...]
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08, 2020
Are We Under Attack?
By Mike Speakman, Law & Order & Policing Spokesman 26th August 2020 I may stray from my usual brief in this blog, but at heart it really is a law [...]
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07, 2020
Recruitment of Minorities into the Police Service
By Mike Speakman; Law & Order / Policing Spokesman 24th July 2020 The desire to increase minority representation in the police service is rising up the political agenda, again. I [...]
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07, 2020
Cressida Dick Stabs Front Line Officers in the Back
By Mike Speakman, Policing and Law & Order Spokesman, ex Deputy Chief Constable. 8th July 2020 We all know about the knife crime epidemic in London, but we never thought [...]
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06, 2020
Mike Speakman on the violence in Reading
Mike Speakman Sunday 21st June 2020 Whilst the deaths and attacks in Reading may not be directly attributable to the preceding Black Lives Matter rally, Black Lives Matter’s rhetoric [...]
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06, 2020
Monuments Men and Women
Ed2020-12-18T06:19:11+00:00FOR BRITAIN MONUMENTS MEN & WOMEN CHIP IN A TENNER FOR SECURITY HELP KEEP ANNE MARIE SAFE [...]
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06, 2020
Taking the Knee
By Mike Speakman, ex Deputy Chief Constable, Policing Spokesman 4th June 2020 I frequently write in these blogs that I am ashamed of the state of modern policing. I never [...]
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03, 2020
Policing the Virus
By Mike Speakman, Law & Order Spokesman 31st March 2020 From my first day at Police training school in 1968 it was drummed into us that we police with the [...]
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03, 2020
Failing victims, fuelling hate
Dr Elle Cockbain is an Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science at University College London. Dr Waqas Tufail is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University. Dr [...]
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02, 2020
Fair Cop’s Day In Court
By Mike Speakman; Retired Deputy Chief Constable, Policing Spokesman 15th February 2020 In recent years, it has sometimes been said, with a sense of irony, that George Orwell’s 1984 was written [...]
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02, 2020
Boris’ Promise: PCs or SJWs?
Response to Boris Johnson stating an additional 20,000 PCs will be recruited. By Andy Thomas 6th February 2020 Andy was a serving officer in a Northern Force for 25 years, [...]
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02, 2020
Our First Priority – Law and Order
Anne Marie Waters February 6th 2020 It is fairly uncontroversial, or should be uncontroversial, for a government's number one priority to be the safety and well-being of those who [...]
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01, 2020
Policing Muslim Rape Gangs
By Mike Speakman, Law & Order Spokesman 28th January 2020 As a retired Deputy Chief Constable, I hang my head in shame at the emerging scandal which must be the [...]
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01, 2020
Not “Asian” nor “Pakistani”: These rape gangs are Muslim
Anne Marie Waters January 17th 2020 We can expect little better from the press. Once again, the nation's "journalists" are participating in (and encouraging) racial slurs in order to [...]
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01, 2020
More Police Force Mergers?
By Mike Speakman, Policing Spokesman 13th January 2020 There is a new initiative from the Police Chiefs Council to merge police forces. The last decades have seen an increasing centralisation [...]
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12, 2019
Left Wing Terrorism is a Growing Menace
Anne Marie Waters December 6th 2019 If you read the mainstream press, it will attempt to persuade you that “far right” terrorism is a growing menace in Britain. The [...]
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11, 2019
The Police and the Election by Mike Speakman
Mike Speakman 27th November 2019 Policing issues are of some relevance in this election, now only two weeks away. Parties are making commitments which they may or may not [...]
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08, 2019
Impartial Policing
By Mike Speakman (Law & Order Spokesperson) 22nd August 2019 One of the themes drummed into me at basic police training was that it is imperative that the police do [...]
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07, 2019
The State of Policing
This week has seen a number of events thrust the future of policing back into the spotlight, if it ever left, with the release of the state of policing report...
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01, 2019
Policing Poetry
A docker from Hull likes a tweet which contains a poem about transgender issues. Someone complains to the police. A police officer rings the man’s employer and subsequently has a conversation
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08, 2018
‘My day at the historic Durham Miners Gala’ by Jeff Wyatt
I was delighted to accept the local For Britain branch Chairman Mr Kevin Bracks kind invitation to spend a day experiencing the Durham Miners' Gala. Here's what happened..
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