Dave Thomas
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Former advertising photographer • Retired cop • Podcaster • 39th in the top 100 police podcasts by https://t.co/Jc22mLofll • Modern day renaissance man🌱
England, United Kingdom
Joined July 2025
My name is Dave Thomas and I am a retired police Officer. I spent nearly 30 years policing the streets of Lancashire. After a decade on roads policing, I went into the detective arena where I specialised in investigating serious and complex crime. Finally, I spent the final few
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One of my favourite places, especially after the coast to coast walk
Your sign to visit the most magical place on the Yorkshire Coast, at the most wonderful time of the year 🎄 Robin Hood's Bay ✨
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I had forgotten it was the anniversary today. I remember vividly watching the news that night. Many years later, I visited the memorial at Lockerbie on my advanced driving course in the cops. I remember being moved, as all of us were in the three cars that drove into Scotland
21 December 1988. Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York exploded in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members on board plus 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground. A Libyan terrorist bomb detonated in the cargo area of the plane.
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So my go to de stresser is to go into the woods and strike up a bivvy and tarp and live in nature. Due to my back injury I have not been able to do that. My back is now strong enough to return there and boy do I need it 🌱
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That got me right in the feelers
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This weeks #SundayThread A need to think personally about violence. Violence becomes preventable when it stops being an abstraction & starts being someone’s problem—specifically, my problem and yours. This has been a thought of mine for many years now. It returned last weekend
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A vey happy birthday to @KatieMagnet She didn’t think she would make it. This is her remarkable story. KATIE HUTCHINGS: Heart transplant survivor https://t.co/hwTWqJmag6 via @Audioboom
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We judges face abuse and long backlogs. Morale is fragile https://t.co/KlnF5LRyLJ
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The lady chief justice, Sue Carr, is the first woman to be head of the judiciary. She talks about plans to scrap jury trials and judges facing violent threats
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Tuuuunnnee 🎶
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Matthew Kelly, author of The Seven Levels of Intimacy, says we progress in letting others "see into" us by first sharing clichés (small talk), then facts, then opinions, then hopes and dreams, then feelings, then fears, failures and weaknesses, and finally, our needs. 🌱
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That’s next Mondays lunch time show recorded for @RadioBigSky It’s the last one before Christmas so I’m having a 12 days of Christmas Quiz. I’d be delighted if you could join me 🌲 https://t.co/JMYaGei4A4
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And so it’s the last weekend before Christmas, always a mental set of nights for the police. I remember many years ago when I was on response as one of the van drivers in Blackpool. It was buzzing, job to job to job. No ethical crime recording as they now call it. Two blokes
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