{"id":430,"date":"2012-07-26T09:07:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T09:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-07-26T09:08:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T09:08:49","slug":"an-%e2%80%98armed-force%e2%80%99-not-a-constabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"An \u2018Armed Force\u2019 &#038; Not A Constabulary."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is yet more evidence about how the Civil Nuclear Police<br \/>\nAuthority [ C.N.P.A. ] views itself as running an \u2018Armed force\u2019,<br \/>\nrather than a more traditional constabulary.<\/p>\n<p>This evidence comes from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsandstar.co.uk\/news\/top-soldier-to-take-nuclear-policing-role-1.978770?referrerPath=news\" target=\"_blank\">news piece about Brigadier Mike Griffiths<\/a>,<br \/>\n[ soon to be Chief Executive of the C.N.P.A. ] ,<br \/>\nin the Carlisle based News &amp; Star.<\/p>\n<p>Within the article their is a reference to the Civil Nuclear Constabulary as being a <em>\u2018specialised armed force\u2019 <\/em>which is currently responsible to DECC ( the Department of Energy and Climate Change ).<\/p>\n<p>Though it has just too many links to the MOD ( War Office ) for my liking.<\/p>\n<p>Griffiths is currently the British Army\u2019s director of personnel,<br \/>\nand holds the title of Colonel of the Duke of Lancaster\u2019s Regiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is yet more evidence about how the Civil Nuclear Police Authority [ C.N.P.A. ] views itself as running an \u2018Armed force\u2019, rather than a more traditional constabulary. This evidence comes from a news piece about Brigadier Mike Griffiths, [ soon to be Chief Executive of the C.N.P.A. ] , in the Carlisle based News &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An \u2018Armed Force\u2019 &#038; Not A Constabulary.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}