Tuesday, November 15, 2005

NEWTWON POLICE: A FORM FOR EVERYTHING 

I hope that the proposed reduction in the number of forces from about 47 to about 22 will result in a corresponding reduction in the number of slogans. Below are a few slogans currently being used by English forces, in some cases I have deleted the name of the force. See if you can match the slogan to the force. In order to get as many correct answers as possible, you will have to think deeply about what your local force means to you and it's priorities in the community; alternatively, you can just guess.

Committed to a Safer _____ For you
Striving for a Safer _____
Keeping _____ Safe
Working for Safer Communities
Taking a lead in making _____ Safer
Creating a Safer ______
Working together for a safer ______
With you, making ______ safer
Creating a Safer ______
Keeping ______ Safe
Providing a second to none policing service
Working for a Safer ______
Putting People First
Aiming for Excellence
Working For Safer Communities
Working in the public service…for a safer ______
Making ______ Safer
Making ______ Safer
Fighting Crime, protecting people
Police and communities together
Together for safer communities
Reinforcing the quality of life in ______
Keeping our communities safe
Working together, building safer communities
Policing with vision Setting the Standard
Making ______ the safest place in Britain to live, work and visit
A safer ______

Choose from:
North Wales, Gwent, Tayside, Strathclyde, Grampian, Fife, Central Scotland, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cumbria, Cheshire, West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Durham, Cleveland, Staffordshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Surrey, London, Hertfordshire, Essex, Hampshire, Wiltshire.

Lots of time and money has been spent coming up with these things, and I’m sure that if you’ve been a victim of crime recently, you’ll agree with me that it’s money well spent. Lots of the slogans have the whiff of the marketing consultant about them, but you can tell that the Chief Constable’s wife had the final say in many cases.

I hope you all feel..."safer"

# "Wasting Police Time" by David Copperfield is available from Amazon and all good bookshops.: 4:34 PM
Comments:
...you will have to think deeply about what your local force means to you and it's priorities in the community...
You are clearly unsuitable for senior management, where correct use of the apostrophe is vital for the essential skill of correct form filling. ("It's" means "it is", so the above sentence reads, "...and IT IS priorities...", whereas the posessive pronoun is "its". Please remember this when next in court.)
 
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