Radio Ham

This blog hasn’t really got started as I hoped it would. The main reason being, I suppose, that after yet another day at work, trying to make headway into the 60 outstanding incidents with the 3 officers at my disposal, and coping with the 50 odd jobs that have come in during my tour of duty, when I get home I want to forget about it all. I certainly don’t want to write about it.

But something at work caught my eye yesterday. Everyone in our branch received an email from the chief of our department; the subject, can everyone get their heads together and think of a suitable logo for the department, and a branch motto.

It is nice to think that the top brass have got their minds on the really important stuff. They seem to think that their job is about buffing their own prestige and in expanding their private fiefdoms, but I bet that doesn’t feature in the eventual motto. The correct reaction when reading mottos such as “narrowing the justice gap” is to say “what a load of bollocks”, and to spurn anyone who uses such terms; but some people, sadly the people in power, take the opposite view. How sad, but predictable.

Anyway, after 3 days of bashing my head against a brick wall, I think perhaps a calendar or year planner would be a good logo – to show how long you can expect to wait to see an officer. As for the motto; “delaying incidents”, “ringing back and apologising to people” or perhaps just “suffering fools” spring to mind as good examples of what out job usually entails; I will leave you to decide where I think the fools reside.