Talk:West Midlands Police

message: Excellent news: the West Midlands Police Flickr stream now uses CC-BY-SA licensing. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:28, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Open-licenced images

message: This article was the subject of an extensive rewrite and reformat during December 2012 with detailed information added about the force's structure, departments and more. I think that it now stands up well in comparison to most other UK police force wikis, there are areas though that I'm looking to improve as and when which are as follows:
* Add detail to the history of the force since 1974 - currently it skips from its formation in 1974 to 2006 with no events between. 
* Obtain a list of former Chief Constables, possibly will approach the force for this information 
* Expand on some of the departmental descriptions, particularly the section on the Special Constabulary 
Richard Stanley - Richardjstanley (talk) 14:59, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Major rewrite, December 2012

message: As people are interested in police numbers, here are some links to official data:
Home Office (July 2010). Police Service Strength.
Home Office (July 2011). Police Service Strength.
Home Office (July 2012). Police Service Strength.
Home Office (July 2013). Police Service Strength.
Kookiethebird (talk) 21:28, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Police employee numbers

message: Needs a number of updates - ACC Rowe left. DCC Thompson back from secondment. Chris Price left some time ago.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.152.1.186 (talk) 22:27, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I've updated the crime statistics table (which hadn't been updated since 2012/13) with data for 2020/21, but would be interested in others' views on whether we need something like this or whether it veers into WP:INDISCRIMINATE territory. I think it's probably useful provided the amount of data isn't excessive, but the flipside of that might be that giving data for one year divorced of context doesn't tell the reader much (perhaps especially given that 2020/21 was a fairly atypical year). I haven't been able to find any secondary sources we could cite on this or use as a guide for what's relevant. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 18:39, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that the stats add much to the article and they don't feature much in other UK police articles. What I would be keen on establishing is a data source that could be used to present the same data for each force in its respective article. For now I'd be OK with no stats in this article. 10mmsocket (talk) 06:42, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: A data source of that sort would be interesting, though if it involved any intricate template work I'd personally be unable to be much use. It would also, I think, still require an answer to the above question about how to avoid either presenting too much information or providing insufficient context. Either way, no objection to you removing the existing table if there aren't any arguments for keeping it in the next week or so (or sooner if you feel it has to go urgently). – Arms & Hearts (talk) 19:02, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crime stats 

message: Any chance we can remove the fantasy line in the Special Constabulary section that training for Specials is 22 weeks? Absolute rubbish. It may well be 22 weekends, although even that I doubt, however specials training is not 22 consecutive weeks. Since around 2016, the forces that offered 18 weeks training have gone down to 10 weeks and even regular Police officers havent had training for as long as 22 weeks since the regional PTC's were disbanded in around 2006. 2A00:23C6:938B:DC01:58C6:6823:40AD:20E8 (talk) 17:03, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special Constabulary training