What's in it for the Police?

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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by Ferg » Tue Mar 03, 2015 5:43 pm

Blondie Long-Legs 36-24-36 wrote: I had the clutch fail on a car 12 days ago in Glasgow city center on one of the steepest hills (Bothwell Street turning up Pitt Street). The traffics were just behind and could not have been more helpful. They stopped all traffic, pushed the car up hill (with me in it) to a point where I was able to free wheel to a safer place before setting the car up to tow it to an empty parking space & then dropping me off at my destination. Got their numbers & emailed them in a thank-you as I doubt they get many.
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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by robin » Tue Mar 03, 2015 7:11 pm

My few dealings with the Police since moving up to Scotland have been pleasant enough ... well except for one guy that was going to let me off driving through some newly instituted bus-only gate (in fact I was turning around anyway but there wasn't room to turn around on this side of the "gate" without reversing across the busy exit of a super market). He was going to let me off because I was English. He figured that as I was English I must just be a visitor and thus wouldn't have heard the radio adverts advising of this new bus gate. When I told him I lived here he decided that I should have known about the gate and fined me. Fair enough, I drove through it, but was a bit sh*t.

As a young man I got stopped plenty of times - mostly for just causes - so cannot complain. But in those days it seems the cops would just tell you to get it sorted/explain why they stopped you (driving like a cock ;-)) ...

Anyway, my annoyance is just at the sheer futility of the whole exercise - it didn't serve any useful purpose and it certainly won't have resulted in a positive attitude.

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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by David » Wed Jul 08, 2015 11:33 pm

When reading this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-t ... l-33438667 I though of this post. Gordon was done early on a Sunday morning. I guess those that didn't respond were sitting at the side of the road dreaming up offenses for the next hapless motorist that passed by. Really disgusted with this bunch - hope they get called to account over this one.
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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by campbell » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:44 am

This is utterly beyond belief.

So this pair lay dying for 3 days? Utterly needlessly?

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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by ClarkyBoy » Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:18 am

I saw that on the news yesterday,

Simply shocked, the trauma that must have caused to them must be unthinkable.
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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by Corranga » Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:08 am

I wonder if that's why there was a helicopter hovering above a large park near my house at 3am this morning.
http://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2015/ ... ng-person/

Local paper says a man went missing at 8pm, helicopter launched at 1am and he was found at 4am.

The cynic in me immediately questions why...
The police would draft in a coast guard helicopter to find a man that was missing only 5 hours.
The police would do such a high profile thing as have a helicopter hovering fairly low near a highly populated area just for some 65 year old guy at 3am.
Is this in response to leaving other missing persons for 3 days.


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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by tut » Thu Jul 09, 2015 10:28 am

Must be the worse case of police ineptness that I have read, in fact change that to criminality.

I hope the family employ a good lawyer and take them to the cleaners as there is little chance of those responsible being brought to Court. As usual of course the taxpayer will cough up for any compensation.

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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by Andy G » Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:23 am

that is a disgrace! Just when you need the emergency services most....

I got pulled on at A1 for doing an alleged 82 Tuts on the motorway in the R8 with Charlotte (my 3 year old) with me. Pulled in to the next layby. Charlotte has actually made a grab for the gear lever and rather than rip her hand off it I chose to gently remove it, but ignored my rear view to spot the crafty buggers on the entrance ramp, hit the anchors (wasn't sure of speed) - but anyway. (20 years without a conviction prior to this).

They guy asked if I minded getting out of the car to chat to him, as he felt he was exposed to danger, but wanted me to leave my 3 year old in the car on her own at the side of the A1 while we had a "valuable" chat.

On the flip side I do have friends who are current traffic cops from the Supercar Experience days and they are a good bunch. Their directives though are a bag of nonsense at times, and some of them have a bit of a "Hitler" complex. They tend to forget that not everyone they pull over is a criminal or wants to verbally abuse them......

Then there was the time that Pete Bennet and I got detained for 2 hours for overtaking 3 a breast round a corner (a ficticious event reported to the Police by some pikee). Despite us asking them to measure our cars and tell us how it was possible, it took them 2 hours to work out that the person who had reported it was deluded.

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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by tenkfeet » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:40 pm

Who reported the accident on Sunday?

Hopefully the survivor pulls through.
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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by cstrachan » Thu Jul 09, 2015 12:54 pm

If you believe FB it was more than 1 report to the police, if true then a real shame if a life possibly 2 could have been saved.
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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by tut » Thu Jul 09, 2015 1:52 pm

When I read a news report or listen to an individuals complaint, I always try to take the view that there are two sides to every story, and mostly I am correct.

However I can not see how there can be two sides to this one.

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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by robin » Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:43 pm

tut wrote: I hope the family employ a good lawyer and take them to the cleaners as there is little chance of those responsible being brought to Court. As usual of course the taxpayer will cough up for any compensation.
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Of course that doesn't bother you when you're on the receiving end of some tax-payer funded compensation ;-) I agree it's a tragic outcome but I think we should wait and here the full facts before calling for somebody's bollocks on a stick ... who knows what really went wrong ... could be an IT failure for all we know!
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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by tut » Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:01 pm

"here", somebody is not proof reading. Pete will be along in a minute. :roll:

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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by Lazydonkey » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:38 am

I got stopped every weekend when i was 17. It's not a new thing. Still carry my license and documents with me.
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Re: What's in for the Police?

Post by flyingscot68 » Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:39 am

Lazydonkey wrote:I got stopped every weekend when i was 17. It's not a new thing. Still carry my license and documents with me.
Bet when you were 17 you looked about 12?


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