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NR incident controller & former railway popo, tweeting about life outside ‘the job’ and promoting the occasional railway vacancy! #ChooChoo

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5 years out 🖤 5 years in 🧡 #ChooChoo #TheGrassCanBeGreener
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You know what I am offended by today, smirking murders. You know what I am not offended by ... a great looking police vehicle. #ThatIsAll
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I always wore mine too #ThinBlueLine 💙
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So, my news ... A month ago I had a job interview ... Was pleased to even get an interview for the role as it would be a big promotion. I’ve been offered the job 🙌🏼 I cannot believe how far I have come #Yay
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I left policing only 10 months ago, here’s what has changed for me... I am happier ☺️ I am healthier 🏋🏻‍♀️ I am working less ⏰ I am earning more 💷 I am valued 🤗 I am learning 👩🏻‍🎓 Choo Choo 🚅🚈🚂
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Fooook it’s been 3 years since I handed in my notice & revealed myself on the Twitterface … that post went a little mental! #WhereHasTimeGone
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5 years
As the song goes ... now your just somebody that I used to know ...
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4 years
Be interesting to see the impact PC Rain has on ‘essential’ journeys today won’t it 🤷🏻‍♀️
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@expctallbird
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4 years
En route in for my last night shift, topping off an 86 hour set. Stay safe everyone and hope you have the best Christmas you can 😘
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What a twat
@AbChav
Absolutely Chavulous
4 years
Just wear a mask instead of being a cunt, she's just a young girl doing her job and doesn't want to risk catching Covid-19, whilst you are getting a power trip from proving you don't have to do what's best for everyone
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5 years
If you saw this awful video of a cat being kicked you will be pleased to know ...
@PompeyPolice
Portsmouth Police
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We’re aware of a video on social media which shows a cat being hit in #Portsmouth . Officers have now arrested a 15-y/o boy on suspicion of an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. He’s currently in police custody. Were you there at the time? Call 101, ref 44190180705.
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Not a bad view from the office(ish) #KeyWorker
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2 years
Morning! I’m signed on for my last ever booked shift in Kent Control today before I move on & up-to West Coast South. I will soon be getting my head round the route from Euston to Crewe and trying not to be too much of a 💩 🧲 😂
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Did my hair and everything 😂 #ShamelessSelfie #StayingInIn
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3 years
You know when you ‘like’ overhear a certain generation ‘like’ overusing a certain word in ‘like’ all conversation, it ‘like’ gets a bit annoying 🙄 #ThatIsAll
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5 years
Hubby getting drafted in to assist with the fun in London at present. He’s currently driving to his base to get his kit to drive back so he can get in early to different base tomorrow! #OhTheFuckingIrony #ExtraEmissions 😂🤷🏻‍♀️
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5 years
Had to call 999 this morning on my way home from nights, providing details to the call handler he says ‘you sound job’ 😂😂😂
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6 years
Stop stabbing each other you little shits ... you are wasting lives, policing and NHS resources not to mention the effect dealing with the trauma these incidents cause with your poor life choices 😡
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About to watch Die Hard for the first time, apparently it’s a Christmas movie ... 😂
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4 years
Well it’s awful on here at the moment isn’t it 😔
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4 years
Somehow 2 & a half years have passed since I left policing & I thought maybe time for a little thread about my journey & a bit of advice for anyone who cares or is looking for something new.
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5 years
Shameless selfie 😂👙🤪🥂🏖
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Ahh I see the latest iPhone update has installed the ‘let’s zap your battery quicker now you’ve had the phone over a year’ software 😂 #Apparently #IMO
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3 years
Felt very glamorous last night, was a nice feeling to get dressed up #SorryNotSorry ☺️
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5 years
Anniversary of the event that triggered my PTSD & eventual need to leave policing came & went recently. For the first time since then I haven’t been on ‘a count down’ to said date nor found myself triggered by the run up to it.
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4 years
Told by daughter to ‘stand-by’ earlier 🤦🏻‍♀️
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4 years
Pretty accurate 😂
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5 years
No alcohol was involved in the making of this 😂
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She’s all dressed up with somewhere to go ☺️🙌🏼🥂😘
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4 years
Shiiiiiiiit 😬 #ifyouknowyouknow
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4 years
Amazing the number of people travelling on trains to work with big suitcases 🤷🏻‍♀️
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5 years
FFS love get in there and help him
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@expctallbird
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6 years
To answer the obvious questions for you: Do I regret leaving? Not one little bit! Do I miss people? Absolutely, but the good ones stay in contact 🍻📱 Am I enjoying it? I’m loving learning a new industry, a new challenge & excellent career progress potential 🙌🏼 #yay
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5 years
I got called ‘fit controller’ today... I’ll take that ☺️ Ok, it was by my hubby... but still 😂 #ChooChoo
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ExPcTallbird
3 years
Winning 🐎
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6 years
Bloke at bar last night (Could feel his stare burning into my face ... *thinks ‘here we go again’) HIM: Cor, Your ‘big’ aren’t you (saaaf London accent) ME: I think the word you are looking for is ‘tall’ (RBF given) Collects his drinks and walks away 😂 #GreatChat #OffYouFuck
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5 years
Looking through my timeline it is very apparent that: 1. Coppers are ill/exhausted/suffering 2. Coppers are trying their best and don’t want to let their teams down thus adding to point 1 3. SMT (some) don’t care enough about said coppers (refer to point 2) and repeat ...
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4 years
Until everyone actually gets that getting through this is everyone’s responsibility we’re gonna keep on like this for the foreseeable. Stay the fuck at home!
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4 years
Feared for his life 🙄
@BullshirePolice
Bullshire Police
4 years
@BBCLookNorth Hiya, Surely that's not poor 'ickle Hassan punching someone is it? We didn't see this bit in your report? We've looped it for you. #MediaScum
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HNY to you all. 12 hr Days on WCS today #ChooChoo 👍🏼
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5 years
Got sent a what’s app this morning, another ex colleagues resignation gone in and off to the railway to work less and earn more 👍🏼
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Thought it was about time for a change since my hair is a fair bit longer now 💁🏻‍♀️ #NewProfilePic
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Don’t clap just follow the rules this time eh 🤷🏻‍♀️
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I 💙 #KickingDoorsDown because ... let’s hear your stories ...
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4 years
Oi knob head, you do realise putting your mask back on your face when getting off the train defeats the fucking object right 🤷🏻‍♀️ #YouCantFixStupid
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4 years
Anyone else watch ‘Sully’ last night? Bloody love that film, favourite line ‘everything is unprecedented until it happens for the first time’
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Guess what ... civvy world means being able to get the whole of Xmas off from 14:00 tomorrow and not back till the new year! #checkmybadself #whoopwhoop
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Why you giving this dude a platform
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Good Morning Britain
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'He needs to face the consequences.' Former Met Police Officer Ali Hassan Ali says Will Smith needs to be 'reprimanded, he needs to apologise and be remorseful.'
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This couldn’t be more true right now ...
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And they wonder why there has been the big policing operation for their ‘peaceful’ protest ... for their protection too ... commuters will take matters into their own hands. #ItWasOnlyAMatterOfTime
@mahatir_pasha
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Shocking moment angry commuters drag two #ExtinctionRebellion protestors off the top of a train in Canning Town and attack them.
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I don’t want this to be true one little bit 😢
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Scummy little fuckers
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6 years
I have decided I am a political atheist... anyone else?!?
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5 years
How can anyone be so cruel 🤬Well done brave MOP 🐾
@nottspolice
Nottinghamshire Police
5 years
A brave member of the public rescued a dog that was tied to a heavy rock and was drowning in the River Trent this morning. Officers are appealing for information from anyone who saw the incident involving the Belgian Shepherd, near Long Lane, Farndon, at around 8.45am today.
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A day of two halves ... Hubby got assaulted on duty last night, some scum spat in his face 😡 #Vile #ProtectTheProtectors Training for my new role officially started today ... loved it. It was busy and I think I managed pretty well overall #Yay #NewJob
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This country is getting the policing it deserves for how the government has treated it. No offence to any officers, you are all trying you’re best but they must start valuing experience as well as numbers!
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When will they learn that 20k more officers will not replace the huge gaping hole of experience lost! How will they recruit/train/mentor & retain that in today’s mess?! Should have looked after what they had when they had it #CutsHaveConsequences
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Funny story I heard today from an ex colleague ... Guess when the long awaited (two winters!) winter jackets we’d been promised arrived?? You guessed it ... the hottest fucking day of the year! You literally couldn’t make this shit up 😂
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Lots of ‘extra officers’ tweets about today ... NEWSFLASH ... there aren’t any extra officers they will have had their rest days cancelled or extended duties forced upon them 🙄
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Well done an accurate and concise update ... keyboard warriors can now STFU 😂 UPDATED: Met Commander statement re footage of man being arrested... - Metropolitan Police
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New hair 💁🏻‍♀️ #ByeByeGreys #HelloBalayage
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Driving with mini TB earlier … ‘clear left Mummy’ #ThatsMyGirl 😂
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5 years
Good! Play stupid games ... win stupid prizes. No sympathy for your poor life choices you bellend 🙄Dangerous driver John Shorthouse bitten by police dog - now he may never drive again | Worcester News
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4 years
Scummy fuckers
@BenPopeCST
Ben Pope
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Nike store on Michigan Ave smashed and completely looted
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Oh how things have changed #SevenMonthsOut
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Having spent some time working through my late Dads photographs I always knew we did a lot of railway visits but I’ve found so much more than I can remember! Here’s Bluebell Railway 1989 😊 #ChooChoo
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And that’s how it should be done!
@cctvidiots
CCTV IDIOTS
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Saluting this Judge who threw a drunk driver’s mom in jail for laughing at victim’s family in court
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I didn’t get the memo that going out getting wasted with your mates and not wearing masks on public transport was allowed again 🙄🤷🏻‍♀️
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@metecoban92 @MetTaskforce @SadiqKhan @SophieKLinden @Miriam_L_Brown @MPSHackney @metpoliceuk What about the police reputation you set about tarnishing with your ill worded (plagiarised?!?) tweet in the first place #Touche I say!
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5 years
Wheyyyyyyyy
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The life lesson many here deserve but the snowflake brigade would have a field day I’m afraid 🤷🏻‍♀️
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5 years
We need 1litre of acetone stat 😂
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4 years
Do you think when someone on the side of ‘roid boy’ put that video in public domain they expected majority support?!? #HowsThatWorkingOutForYou 😂 #WellDoneLadyPoPo 💪🏼👮🏻‍♀️
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4 years
No one can do everything but everyone can do something ...
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5 years
And this is why ripped jeans are amazing 😉 🙌🏼 #GinHolder #NoHands #ExCopperNowRailwayCatchUp @luckylauz 😍
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I guess it was written in the stars for me 😂 #ChooChoo #WonderWhatImActuallyLookingAt
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ExPcTallbird
5 years
I’m staying at home today, I’m rest days, I’m a key worker & I get it, I’m doing my bit, it may not seem much but it’s vital. Stay home! Stay home and BBQ, stay home and sunbathe, stay home and ‘house party’ your household gathering, do the right thing! #StayHomeSaveLives
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ExPcTallbird
4 years
Stop the world, I want to get off 🙄
@Kent_Online
KentOnline
4 years
Anger at 'moronic' petition to rename the White Cliffs of #Dover which is detrimental to #BlackLivesMatter movement
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I should have known I was destined to work on the railway, my Dad was fascinated with it. Many trips to various heritage railways as a kid & always remember he built a really impressive model railway taking up the entire loft. I really hope I’m making him proud 😊 #ChooChoo
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3 years
Guess there’s worse views from the office #HAPPYNEWYEAR2022
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4 years
... yeah, it is
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Just catching up on #24hoursinpolicecustody that surgeon calling the detectives ‘girls’ smug prick 🙄
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5 years
Second January out of policing, second half decent pay increment. This is another world #StillPinchingMyself #ChooChoo
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4 years
En route back into London Town for early turn. Does anyone else always seem to manage to wake up a few mins before the early turn alarm would have gone off? 🤷🏻‍♀️
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4 years
Love the speed of production 😂🙌🏼
@BullshirePolice
Bullshire Police
4 years
Are you, or is someone you know, a "Senior Inspector"? Choose to procure one of our personalised drinking vessels which are also available as "Travel Mugs" which you can pop in your car! [Other 'Inspector' stuff is also available by the way, obviously]
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5 years
Ooooh this time last year I had just handed in my resignation #WhoopWhoop
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5 years
Drunk(ish) lanky me
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4 years
Two years out 😊 #ChooChoo
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4 years
He was a decent bloke then yeah 🙄
@gmpolice
Greater Manchester Police
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#CHARGED | A man has been charged following an incident which saw a taser being deployed by a GMP officer.
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I may be a #BusWanker bit I have pretty nails ☺️
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ExPcTallbird
5 years
Are you fucking kidding me ... was there not video of these idiots 🙄 Dear feral eeeeejits .... please continue #NoConsequences ... World Cup ambulance damage case dropped against four
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5 years
***thread*** (sorry!) As many of you prepare for NHC this weekend, I wish you all a safe one. Today marks 1 year since I left policing to join the many that have gone before me to the railway. I guess the main question people would ask is, do I regret leaving?
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