Behind every uniform is a human. Policing asks people to absorb pressure, trauma, responsibility and stress on a level most will never fully see and all too often, wellbeing is an afterthought or is not fully embraced or understood. That has to change. Programmes like Surfwell are providing real support, real connection and real recovery.  Through evidence based surf therapy, peer support and most crucially; lived experience, they’re helping first responders and blue light colleagues from across all services reconnect with themselves, boost their resilience and cope with the challenges of modern policing.  This isn’t just about surfing. It’s about people, prevention and creating a culture where looking after those who protect others is finally taken seriously. Please check out @opsurfwell and follow their journey as they continue growing to support as many as they can across the Blue Light community. The people in policing look after the public. Who looks after the people who police? #ThinBlueLine 🚨

Over the last 36 hours, we have witnessed the very soul of Nigel Farage — his essence. It has been over a month since he went into hiding, since serious questions began to be raised over his undeclared £5M donation. A month since he appeared in front of TV cameras or underwent any questioning at all. At 8am yesterday morning, Farage released a video, from a field somewhere, calling for rage. Calling for an end to the mythical two-tier policing. Make no mistake, those were very carefully chosen words — he understood what he was unleashing, and his wish was granted last night in Southampton. On Tuesday, the Home Secretary made a statement to the House regarding the murder of Henry Nowack. There was, as always, an opportunity to question Shabana Mahmood — was Nigel Farage in attendance? No, of course not. Today, Farage was granted a question at PMQs — the showpiece spectacle of the political week in which the country's news and politics fanatics tune in to watch — was Nigel Farage in attendance? Yes, of course he was. He had somehow found his way into work after missing 77 separate votes in Parliament because … he would, at least for three minutes, be the centre of the country's political attention. His question was about the murder of Henry Nowack and the violence that erupted [on his command] last night, but he would not condemn it or call for calm. Instead, he 'suggested' that this rioting might escalate. This afternoon, he has performatively written to the BBC because someone on Newsnight dared to accuse him of inciting the violence — playing his perpetual victim card. Again. And there we see the soul of Nigel Farage — a craven, desperate for attention, evil, petty and pointless man. END RANT.

The death of Henry Nowak is a tragedy in every sense, and the public reaction to the body‑worn video is completely understandable. It is painful to watch. It is painful for officers to watch. And it is painful for Henry’s family to know that his final moments were chaotic, confused and shaped by a lie told by the man who killed him. But if we are going to talk about this case, and especially where/if politicians make highly charged statements, I believe it’s important to stay anchored to what was actually established in court. The judge was clear that the responsibility for Henry’s death lies solely with the man who stabbed him. The fatal wound to his chest was described as “catastrophic” and “unsurvivable”, and the pathologist confirmed that no medical intervention, immediate or otherwise, could have saved Henry. That does not erase the distressing nature of the footage, it does not mitigate the seemingly dispassionate response of the officers in attendance, but it does matter when we are trying to understand what happened and what could or could not have changed the outcome. It is also a matter of record that the officers were responding to a 999 call in which the offender falsely claimed he had been the victim of a racist attack and insisted no weapon had been used. That deception shaped the first few minutes on scene. The IOPC has been involved from the outset, and the officers have remained as witnesses throughout. This is an important distinction, as those familiar with post incident procedures can tell you. If there was a shred of doubt or suspicion that the officers actions at the time, when balanced against the information known at the time and their reasonable held beliefs, amounted to potential misconduct, the IOPC must at the earliest opportunity review their status. The IOPC have confirmed that the officers status remains unchanged. That indicates that the officers initial decisions/actions have already been assessed against the information known at the time and is unlikely to now change and amount to misconduct. None of this means the initial assessment was correct. It wasn’t. The officers misread the situation, and the body‑worn video shows that plainly. But policing is full of moments where decisions are made in seconds, under pressure, with incomplete or misleading information. Sometimes those decisions are right. Sometimes they are not. And sometimes…as in this case…the consequences are unbearably tragic even when the mistake does not change the final outcome. What we cannot/should not do is turn this into a proxy battle in a wider culture war. Henry’s family have asked that his death is not used to fuel division, hate or to propagate political agendas. It is possible to hold two truths at once: that the initial response was flawed, sloppy even…and the investigation needs to establish how policy, procedure and relied information impacted those decisions and events; and that despite the officers clear mistakes and compassion fatigue, they did not cause Henry’s death, nor could they have prevented it. Policing is at its worst when it becomes defensive, but it is also at its worst when it becomes a canvas onto which people project their own political battles and/or bitterness. This case, if it is to be a turning point, deserves better than that. We can demand accountability without abandoning fairness. We can acknowledge mistakes without inventing motives. And we can talk honestly about the pressures and imperfections of frontline policing without turning every tragedy into a referendum on the entire profession. That balance is difficult. But, to my mind, it is the only way we avoid repeating the same cycles of outrage, distortion, division and defensiveness that have done so much damage to public trust… and to the people who still turn up, every day, to do a job that is getting harder by the day.

Unbelievable.

It’s hard to comprehend how a jury couldn’t agree that seriously assaulting Police Officers could ever be described as ‘self defence’…👀 Thinking of the Officers involved in this absolute farce we continue to call ‘justice’. Let’s hope @CPSUK seek a retrial. #ThinBlueLine 🚨

You can’t even step off your train in London without being a victim of crime these days! I might have to console myself by finding a Warrens 😂

Solid reporting on Farage’s Murky Millions by @vicderbyshire Bluster from Jake Berry delivered with vigour but entirely devoid of substance Farage’s story keeps shifting, is highly inconsistent and ultimately entirely unconvincing And where is Farage when he has serious questions to answer? @SophyRidgeSky said earlier , when challenged on absence of coverage, Farage had refused interviews Since running away from @bbclaurak before the election Farage has given interviews to @BethRigby - in which he got very irritated- and @MrHarryCole - in which he was very matey but shifted his story. The £5m had become a Brexit Reward Tice’s partner Oakeshott appeared on Farage TV 2 ( aka TalkTV) and indignantly defended Farage, although her contribution was probably less helpful to him than she intended, in that she undercut many of his previous lines of defence. Apparently Newsnight have asked for Farage or representative ten times They ended up with Berry . Who shed darkness rather than light Farage is afforded wall to wall coverage - on his terms- when he so much as opens an envelope Now it’s time to demand he answers questions rather than hides . Presumably in one of the six properties we know about. Two of them bought for cash in 2024 within weeks of each other He believes he’s untouchable. Because he has never been persistently and rigorously held to account If the mountain of unanswered questions are not robustly tackled now we can say good bye to Standards in Public Life Because Farage will have demonstrated he is , indeed , untouchable

RT @metpoliceuk: Footage of a Muslim officer being abused at a protest was widely shared this weekend.   It happened a few weeks ago and we…

Keep an eye on your mates. Check in with them. If they’re being quieter than normal, find out why. If they’re not acting like themself, find out why. You spend all day looking after the public, look after your mates too. It might make all the difference. #ThinBlueLine 🚨

I’m sure we have all now seen the footage of Metropolitan rozzers kicking a suspected terrorist in the head, repeatedly, when he was down. We can all play a part in putting an end to this sort of police brutality. Mainly by not going around stabbing people.

I’ve just been interviewing @Keir_Starmer for @BBCr4today who says he met the police officers who tasered the suspect in the Golders Green stabbing “I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You're trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you've shot them, there's nothing left. There's a guy on the ground, he's got a rucksack on. And I don't know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I'd be thinking, he's going to detonate something. He's going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy." He added: "Now, when I then see Zak Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it's disgraceful... He's not fit to lead any political party." Full interview on @bbcr4today tomorrow from 7am

Respects paid. This is for you Harps. 💙

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This from BTP and LNER provides a good overview of last night’s ECML delays.

Heartbroken is an understatement. I started speaking to Jon in May 2025, and we stayed in regular contact ever since. He reached out because he was facing the uncertainty of leaving the police after securing another job - the fear of stepping into the unknown. And then there was the misconduct hearing. Jon expressed concerns how he was being purposely discredited and misquoted. This was clear when he shared some of the disclosure prior to the misconduct hearing. Clearly, taking a person’s career isn’t enough. In my view, the Violence Against Women and Girls agenda, alongside the College of Policing’s Code of Ethics, is being weaponised against officers. Policing is not only hitting the self-destruct button time and time again, but continues to play ‘God’ with current and former officers’ lives and their families. They continue to erode public trust in policing and are contributing to officers feeling so trapped that they are taking their own lives. They also wonder why they struggle to retain officers in what used to be a ‘Job for life’. How do we get those in positions of power to actually listen and change this? How can they return home to their own families in good conscience, knowing their actions (or lack of them) may have contributed to another death within the police family? This has got to stop. My thoughts are with Jon’s family and friends. Paul. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/…

Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to come running to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. That is not how alliances work. That is not how anything works. You abused the UK. You threatened Canada. You tried to grab Greenland. You called the EU an adversary. You praised Putin, the one man every serious NATO ally has spent decades preparing to fight. You hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. You undermined European elections. You abandoned Ukraine. You imposed tariffs on your closest partners. You did all of this loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. Here is a question worth sitting with. Why do you think that is? Is it possible, just possible, that when you treat your allies like enemies for over a year while cuddling up to their actual enemy, those allies might update their opinion of you? Is that concept too complicated? Does that require more working memory than is currently available? You did not plan this war with your allies. You did not consult them. You did not build a coalition. You started a conflict, watched it go sideways, and then got on your knees asking for help from people you spent fourteen months calling weak, corrupt and irrelevant. NATO is not what it was. Not because Europe changed. Because Washington made crystal clear which side it is on. And it is not ours. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

“We’re dealing with a President who is a narcissist and a bully… a rebuke of some kind is necessary” Broadcaster and journalist David Dimbleby says a US State Visit by King Charles “is a misuse of the King” and the UK is “giving Trump more than he deserves”. #Newsnight

This is a huge loss to the Met & another blow to morale. I know this man; an exceptional police officer in every respect who inspires those under his command. The Brick aspect is a massive bonus. The Met could & should have made better use of his numerous skills. Good luck.

Today Kent Police held a two-minute silence across the force for our fallen colleague PC Bradley Corke.

Knew I’d seen one of these somewhere else… 😂