What's in it for the Police?

[j2 lot]

Routine stops probably generate more information and solve more crime than any other method of policing. It's unfortunate if your a law abiding individual with nothing to hide and the attitude test can sometimes have consequences. I'm inclined to agree with Fd ....
My old man only ever got a sanitised version of what I'd been up to or said / done

Just saying.


Saddened to hear that the passenger in the car that lay undiscovered for 3 days died today too.

[Kelvin]

This isn't anything that new. Young folk are targets for the police.

When I was 14 I got stopped by the police walking back from my aunt's house. It was about 9pm on a mid summer evening. They asked me all the usual questions which I answered and they let me on my way. Five minutes later they came screeching to a halt lept out of the van and pinned me against a fence yelling and swearing in my face that I had 'fcuk lied to them you little barsteward'. They said I lied about my address. What they had done is radioed in my neighbours address so the names didn't match. No amount of explanation from me satisfied them and they couldn't be arsed to check again. Instead I got literally thrown into the back of the van and then spent the next 4 hours in the back of it as they collected various drunks and blokes fighting. I was terrified.

They took me back to the station and locked me in a room for another hour and then some fat copper with terrible breath came in and read me the riot act. I'm a bit gobby as a few of you will know and was the same then so rather than suck it up I ranted back at him. At one point I thought he was going to hit me. Eventually they turfed me out of the station and I got home at 3am. My whole family were there as they had been out searching for me and had even gone to the same police station but I hadn't been formally booked in so had no idea I was there. My dad listened to my version of events and thankfully believed me as I wasn't one for telling porkies and it was a bit too unbelievable not to be true if that makes sense. In the end we got a letter of apology from the chief constable for what it was worth.

I have had several negative encounters with the police and was engaged to a girl whose brother in law was a copper. He and his fellow colleagues I met were just bent scum who would brag about about all the scams they were involved in including stealing stuff from the crash scene at Lockerbie.

My view of our thin blue line is very poor as a result. It's why all the scandals and cover ups don't surprise me. The normal excuse is that the fuzz is simply a reflection of society. Personally I think that's balls. It depends on who you recruit, how you train them, discipline, and the standards you run the force by. I'm sure there are more good apples than bad and it's a tough job at times and on the whole they do a god job but they don't help themselves a lot of the time.

[Lazydonkey]

Got stopped last night in evora. Got 3 points but should have been court. Cops were top notch.

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[tut]

You should be ashamed of yourself, speed limits are there for a reason.

tut

[Dominic]

You should be ashamed of yourself, speed limits are there for a reason.

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[rossybee]

lots of bad stuff.

Sounds like a scene from the film "Filth"