I never understood the concept of the Mobile Police Station either. Let alone the regular instances where the local Plod would hold a meeting with the people at a given time and place. Surely both instances amounted to a statement that said that the otherwise rare and inaccessible local police were in a specific spot in town so it was safe to go and rob the other places.
If you get a 7 days producer [HO/RT/1] for your documents do you get a dispensation to await the monthly mobile police wagon? Guess not.
The local cop shop here is up for closure - they want to move the staff into the Fire Station down the road. After the usual disjointed discussions they suddenly found that the fire station also wanted to close. Ooooer, that wasn't planned!
Anyway there has been a reprieve this month, they suddenly decided that the might need the pretty [and damned expensive] aerials and recently upgraded digi radio shack in the cop shop yard for the Olympics...... Olympics? Good lord that was a surprise event foisted on them.
So Essex Constabulary will be looking at the closure again in August 2012, if they remember.
OK. Nothing to do with aeronautics, but it does show that there is an awful lot of it about. "Poor planning and not joined up."
It must be the name of a Senior Officers Command Course.
