Police: an abuse of privalege?

@johnboy25 wrote:

Funny how you should mention the arrogance factor, I was talking to a guy at work about a TV show about the police in our region – he, like me, isn’t a cop. He said that his wife found the officers to be quite arrogant, but he just said ‘They’re not arrogant, they’re just polis’ :lol:

And it’s something I believe as well. Having said that, it’s two different view points. His wife is on the outside looking in, whereas he’s used to it and as such it barely registers as being out of the ordinary. If it’s smugness to the point that it gets picked up by those that work with them, then it’s arrogance :lol:

It’s the smug ones that give the good ones a bad name.

No..it’s the ones who roll you up in a rubber mat before administrating a goodly kicking for exceeding the speed limit by a a furlong per hour whilst hoodlums, thugs and murderers rape, pillage and sodomise the sniffer-dog outside the very windows of the police station undetected, that give the police force a bad name.

@johnboy25 wrote:

Well maybe if folk weren’t so busy speeding, talking on their mobile phones while driving etc – the crappy little laws which, at the end of the day, are still laws regardless of how unpopular they are – then maybe the police wouldn’t have to spend so much time on them. Simple solution if you ask me. Stop wasting their time and they’ll stop wasting yours.

It’s actually not as easy as it looks on ‘The Bill’

Well – bugger me with a rolled-up copy of the Police Federation Monthly – but I never knew that! :roll:

@johnboy25 wrote:

@esmeralda wrote:

@johnboy25 wrote:

Well maybe if folk weren’t so busy speeding, talking on their mobile phones while driving etc – the crappy little laws which, at the end of the day, are still laws regardless of how unpopular they are – then maybe the police wouldn’t have to spend so much time on them. Simple solution if you ask me. Stop wasting their time and they’ll stop wasting yours.

It’s actually not as easy as it looks on ‘The Bill’

Well – bugger me with a rolled-up copy of the Police Federation Monthly – but I never knew that! :roll:

You’d be surprised about how many people don’t actually realize that, seriously. Folk seem to believe that cos an episode of The Bill lasts an hour, so too should an average investigation. It’s not as daft a comment as you may think.

My point is, folk don’t really see what goes on. For example, Joe Bloggs doesn’t know that I once spent three dayshifts reviewing tapes, hours upon hours of going through footage looking for something relevant, taking pages of notes along the way for a sexual assault and as a result, a conviction was secured. Joe Bloggs doesn’t know about half of what I do. I know because I asked him. This is something we’ll never agree on, it’s two entirely different views.

Mr. Joseph Bloggs’ undetermined ubiety notwithstanding, let’s requisition his 45-inch-screen plasma thingummie and set about his burberry’d personage with a set of sweaty headphones and a 24 hour audio-tape of The Sweeney on a constant loop.
That’ll larn ‘im.

Just setting the mood. :P