Quick Police question

[Republik]

If you join the Fuzz, do you have to do 2 years 'on the beat'?

[oldsoak]

There is a 2 year PROBATIONARY PERIOD...whether there is such a thing as a 'beat' these days is open to speculation.

[gti tim]

You are classed as a student officer for two years from the day you start. During that time you are a response officer - on the beat, be that on foot or car, depending on where you live. During that two years, you are not 'confirmed' in post. You must complete a SOLAP - a NVQ in policing to level 3/4, which i find quite simple yet pointless! In my force you cannot apply for attachments or positions in other departments until you have done your two years. In reality, you don't have the experience of the job until you have done that job for that length of time anyway. In other words - if you want to be a drug squad/traffic/dog officer - you dont join up and pick where you want to go - or we would have no-one on town and 100s of dog handlers and traffic rats. You do your time and then apply.

[over_the_hill]

How and where did the term Fuzz originate (sorry to sidetrack off the OP) as a slang term for Police.

[oldsoak]

over_the_hill said:

How and where did the term Fuzz originate (sorry to sidetrack off the OP) as a slang term for Police.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20050307.html

[Surrey Rat]

gti tim said:

You are classed as a student officer for two years from the day you start. During that time you are a response officer - on the beat, be that on foot or car, depending on where you live. During that two years, you are not 'confirmed' in post. You must complete a SOLAP - a NVQ in policing to level 3/4, which i find quite simple yet pointless! In my force you cannot apply for attachments or positions in other departments until you have done your two years. In reality, you don't have the experience of the job until you have done that job for that length of time anyway. In other words - if you want to be a drug squad/traffic/dog officer - you dont join up and pick where you want to go - or we would have no-one on town and 100s of dog handlers and traffic rats. You do your time and then apply.

It also depends on which Force area you join as to where you start out. When I joined years ago, I went straight to what is now the CID department, until a place on the response team was open.

[gti tim]

That must have been an experience - straight from training school to dealing with the more serious stuff. If training was anything like ours, it prepares you, but not for anything like the variety of jobs you get in the real world.

[carreauchompeur]

gti tim said:

That must have been an experience - straight from training school to dealing with the more serious stuff. If training was anything like ours, it prepares you, but not for anything like the variety of jobs you get in the real world.

Nah, newbie in the CID office would have been a tea bh!

[Plotloss]

Tuscan Rat said:

oldsoak said:

over_the_hill said:

How and where did the term Fuzz originate (sorry to sidetrack off the OP) as a slang term for Police.

http://ask.yahoo.com/20050307.html

You learn something new everyday. Can't find on there though and often wondered where Rozzer comes from. Awaits someone better than me on the internet to find answer.

Origin: Uknown.

Thought to be a bdisation of the Yiddish word for Pig.

Is it especially used in Golders Green?

[Surrey Rat]

gti tim said:

That must have been an experience - straight from training school to dealing with the more serious stuff. If training was anything like ours, it prepares you, but not for anything like the variety of jobs you get in the real world.

It was naff and I fought to get out and about. CID is not all Gene Hunt style Policing (at least not where I am) Someone has to investigate the theft of sandwiches