{"id":6467,"date":"2026-09-12T14:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T13:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T14:02:03","slug":"murder-mayhem-and-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/09\/12\/murder-mayhem-and-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;MURDER, MAYHEM AND MADNESS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><strong>TALK BY ALAN JENKINS &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8216;MURDER, MAYHEM AND MADNESS&#8217; &#8211;<br \/>\nTEN YEARS POLICING IN 1980&#8217;S MERSEYSIDE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Shipmates,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Please see the following open invite from Weymouth Branch RNA:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>&#8220;Dear All, you may recall attending the previous talk we had from this guy, he was really interesting and humorous, (which for such topics you wouldn\u2019t think would work).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Alan Jenkins will be at our social event on <strong>Friday 20th November at \u201cThe Moose Lodge\u201d, 137 Chickerell Road, Weymouth DT4 0BW,<\/strong> commencing at <strong>19:45<\/strong>, (time to get a drink), for a <strong>20:00<\/strong> start.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>We are not charging entrance fees to this event, simply come along, make up the numbers and enjoy the talk. Raffle tickets will of course be on sale for the evening, and we hope you don\u2019t mind buying a couple.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Please let us know of any intentions to attend \u2026.by replying by FRIDAY 6th November please.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Light refreshments, (and drinks\u2026they are chargeable but the food isn\u2019t). will be available on the evening.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Regards Alan Mirams&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Policing-Lpool-in-1980s.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6468 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Policing-Lpool-in-1980s.png?resize=840%2C473&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Policing-Lpool-in-1980s.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Policing-Lpool-in-1980s.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Policing-Lpool-in-1980s.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Policing-Lpool-in-1980s.png?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/no4arearna.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Policing-Lpool-in-1980s.png?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">This talk is a humorous and enlightening look at the first 10 years of my police career. It cover the years 1981 &#8211; 1990 when I served in Merseyside Police.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">As the title suggests they were indeed crazy years at times and in some ways unique and a different world compared to policing today. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TALK BY ALAN JENKINS &#8211; &#8216;MURDER, MAYHEM AND MADNESS&#8217; &#8211; TEN YEARS POLICING IN 1980&#8217;S MERSEYSIDE Shipmates, Please see the[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticeboard","category-social-event"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R0mQ-1Gj","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6479,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no4arearna.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}