What with all sorts getting their media free of charge lately I thought I'd be of public service.
Don't know if you've discovered SPOTIFY.
Try it and see why I'm hooked.
If you want to lug in to the sharn I listen to you can click here once you have the software downloaded.
© Noddy
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200 weeks offered this piece of customer service prioritisation.
I noted that some bloke in our capital city had a few windaes smashed and an accordion was flung round his hoose as the CID descended to investigate.
Now, no doubt there will be a major incident cell set up to investigate this as well. I expect full cooperation from the spooks and thus best value for money for the taxpayer.
I also live in an imaginary world.
© Mr Plod
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I need £300 sharpish.
Any donors out there?
Goodwinner and McNumpty, you have some spare cash I believe.
p.s. I cautioned myself against references to a nip as this might have been considered non-diverse.
© Noddy
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PA Consulting Group might want to reconsider this slogan.
A contractor working for the Home Office has lost a computer memory stick containing personal details about tens of thousands of criminals.
The lost data includes details about 10,000 prolific offenders as well as information on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.
The data on the stick also includes information from the Police National Computer of some 30,000 people with six or more convictions in the last year.
David Smith, Deputy Commissioner in the Information Commissioner's Office, said the latest loss showed that personal information could be a "toxic liability" if not handled properly.
"It is deeply worrying that after a number of major data losses and the publication of two government reports on high profile breaches of the Data Protection Act, more personal information has been reported lost," he said.
I was just thinking about the gravy train I've alluded to in the past and then I read on. Guess what? I wasn't the only one to think laterally.
Shadow Home Secretary Dominic Grieve said there had been a "massive failure of duty".
He said: "What is more scandalous is that it is not the first time that the government has been shown to be completely incapable of protecting the integrity of highly sensitive data, rendering them unfit to be charged with protecting our safety.
"The British taxpayer will be absolutely outraged if they are made to pick up the bill for compensation to serious criminals."
So much for the tougher data laws.
Looking forward to Jacqui Spliff's views on this latest debacle, because someone has certainly lost their memory.
Update: Nice try at a body swerve Ms Teflon, but it is still your Department's responsibility to secure the data and physically prevent anyone downloading/transferring it against protocols. If it has been transferred as suggested, will she be prosecuting? Let's see.
© Noddy
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The hardships.
The poor wee mites.
Nae mair Grand Theft Auto for the incarcerated.
Anyone heard of books? (colouring or otherwise!)
© Mr Plod
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It has been a wee while since I last posted about the poor hard done-by inmates of SPS establishments.
What hasn't changed is the ridiculous claims of the 'odd' individual every so often.
The poor man wants us to know that the smell emanating from his portapotty leaves him feeling worthless and degraded.
I wonder how this sex offenders victim feels?
When I exercise my custody officer talents I often hear the whines of the incarcerated as they bemoan the thinness of their mattresses or the temperature of the water they are offered to drink etc. The phrase that enters my head is, "Don't come back."
Nuff said.
© Mr Plod
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It's a slippery slope we are on.
Among the array of my many splendoured talents is the fact that I am a fully trained custard occifer.
As such, I am considering the latest softly softly approach being pioneered by the Prison Service to improve my intel submissions.
Those of you trained in this fine art will shudder at the thought of me putting this aspect of the initiative ahead of the duty of care to the poor incarcerated souls (or should that be soles?), but on an average evening/night in the cell block it is hardly the Magnums and DM's traipsing down the corridors that are going to keep the incarcerated awake, more likely Mr McPished or Mr McHigh pounding on the cell door with his heid. Oh and of course there's always a Ms McBanshee.
Meanwhile, in Ruralshire the Duty Detective Inspector pays a visit to custody and is asked to remove his shoes first and replace them with the new standard issue.
© Chill Bill
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I posted some time ago about the poor prisoner embarrassed by the SPS telephone system message identifying his calls as emanating from pokey and how he'd managed to get Legal Aid to fund a court case on the grounds of infringement of his human rights.
Well at long last the daft decision has been overturned.
Can we hope for more examples of common sense?
© Noddy
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I posted previously about the gravy train that is calling regularly at your local HMP. Well, as reported in the Scotsman, the Justiciary have had to cave in to legislation made elsewhere to protect human rights, but whose rights are really protected here?
Can we call this victim orientated?
Ken MacAskill, the SNP's justice spokesman, said: "This is outrageous. People who breach the law must pay the price. Taxpayers' money is being used to fund these legal aid cases, money which could be going to help vulnerable people in need of legal representation. A line needs to be drawn now." Spot on.
I think the Convention on Human Rights needs re-examined and common sense applied. I like to dream occasionally!
I, me, myself, one, will have to PAY this criminal money out of my pocket and it makes me choke.
Not my words, but those of a murdered child's mother in respect of a Paedophile who, as reported in the local evening paper;
"Has now joined the queue of money-grabbing cons hoping to cash in on the fact they have to slop out."
If these crims were as inventive in their money making schemes on the other side of the prison walls, then perhaps they would not keep ending up on the wrong side of them.
This is just one of a growing list of suits/challenges to the Prison Service such as this and this.
If the Liberal Democrats have their way there won't be a SPS to sue.
The Beeb report that a convicted rapist is launching court action claiming his human rights are being breached because he has not been granted early release from jail.
In this case, No definitely, categorically means No.
It's hard enough to get a conviction for rape, so we are told, and then the ECHR comes to the rescue of the crim at the expense of the victim (and potential victims given that the parole board said the public risk he posed was considered "unacceptable").
That would be another case brought to court at OUR expense.
According to the Scotsman, a convicted criminal is taking the Executive to court over the message played before phone calls are accepted on outgoing calls.
The message is as follows:
"This call originates from a Scottish prison. It will be logged and may be recorded and/or monitored. If you do not wish to accept this call, please hang up."
You have to feel sorry for the poor guy whose only crime, this time, involved holding a knife at the throat of a shop manageress and is serving a minor sentence of 21 years at the moment.
Not only is he being allowed to take this to court, but You and I are paying for it.
After a lengthy battle to secure thousands of pounds in legal aid, Stewart Potter, 43, has taken a case to the Court of Session in Edinburgh, claiming the phone message "is an ... embarrassing reminder to his family" that he is calling from prison.
He has served previous sentences of four, six and eight years and was given a nine-year term in 2001 for armed robbery.
In 2002, he stood trial for another robbery, committed just before the nine-year sentence had been imposed. In that case, he threatened the manageress of a Glasgow off- licence with a knife, then ordered her and a customer into a toilet. He fled with £292 but was arrested after police used CS spray to disarm him.
He was jailed for 12 years, to begin at the end of the nine-year sentence.
You must have some thoughts.
n.b. Mercilessly nicked (sic) from my ickle bruvver - ta loon.
As Victor Meldrew would say, "I don't believe it!"
Last time I looked the press were bleating about prisons being awash with drugs and inmates running away from open prisons to avoid taking drugs, but now it appears the poor souls cannot get their hands on their daily fix and the government are to pay out to avoid being sued for infringing their human rights. Will they disclose how much has been paid out?
Feel free to comment!
For other takes on this go to (w)PC Bloggs and Another Constable's posts.
