Started in June 2006 after the author was required to attend a diversity training seminar he described as "60 mind numbing minutes of complete nonsense",[1] Police Inspector Blog was sharply critical of instances of what it considered excessive bureaucracy, health and safety regulation and political correctness in modern British policing.
[4] It was one of a number of police blogs that appeared in the late 2000s expressing dissatisfaction with the policies of the New Labour government.
[5] However, from 2011 onwards Inspector Gadget was also critical of the austerity policies of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition,[2][6] writing that as a result of police cuts criminals "ruled the streets" of the county he worked in.
[8] The blog was discontinued in March 2013, in response to pressure from senior officers to identify and discourage anonymous police bloggers.
In 2013 Inspector Gadget published a book, Perverting The Course Of Justice: The Hilarious And Shocking Inside Story Of British Policing.