PW_03_2017

Working on your behalf

Blog Competition For those eagled eyed amongst you there was a competition hidden within my blog which was published on the 15th May 2017. T o enter all you had to do was email me with your name , Branch and member number by the 22nd May. I am pleased to say I had 29 entries and a couple more after the closing date. Michele Rai was the adjudicator and selected nine random numbers from the 29 entries to select our prize winners aside from entry number one who was automatically awarded a prize as the first entry. The prizes consisted of a variety of IPA merchandise which was posted out to the winners on Thursday 25th May 2017 except for two winners who are attending this week’s National Council Meeting who will personally be given theirs. The prizes were similarly randomly selected to the winners who were as follows;

As a new member of staff at HQ UK Section, I’d like to introduce myself and in order to do so I have penned the following intro: I t really is good to be the ‘New BOY’ in the Office, here at HQ UK Section. BOY, because as you will no doubt ascertain from my following brief resume, I have been around a while, and also because it is a little while since (the male half of the species was represented) there has been a chap on the permanent staff here at Arthur Troop House. I began working here as a Member Service Representative and Office Administrator, or MSRO for brevity as it is quite a mouthful, on 20 March 2017, having retired from Notts Police in 2014 and taken an inordinate amount of time to become bored. Prior to Notts Police I was with the Royal Military Police, SIB for 22 years and before that was a Police Cadet in the West Riding of Yorkshire –as was – in 1966; - You now can glimpse the Zimmer wielding ‘Boy’ in the Office. Having served around the world in the Army and been immersed in the Police family all of my working life, finding myself working for and with the IPA seems to be a natural progression and certainly keeps me from mixing with the irascible Last of the Summer Wine Crowd, spending my days being a ‘Juvenile Pensioner’, doing not a lot. In the short time I have been here I have made numerous ‘electronic’ friends across the globe as well as closer to home. If you find yourself South of the Trent, then please call in, say hello and have a cuppa. I look forward to both hearing from you and resolving your issues

1 Janet Curtis, Cambridge. 2 Clive Wood, Leicestershire. 3 Aaron Ashton, Scotland.

4 Lee Kingston, Nottinghamshire. 5 Chris Burnett, North East Branch.

6 Eddington Jones, North Wales 7 Sean Hannigan, Leicestershire. 8 Max Fordyce, Tayside. 9 Irene Curtis, Blackpool & North Lancashire. 10 Michael Stock, Scarborough. Well done and many thanks for taking the time out to read my blog. Mick Luke - Proud to be President of Section UK.

Dave (id) (If it’s Sunday)

POLICE WORLD Vol 62 No. 3, 2017

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