There was a time when Police were there to serve the Public (who pay their wages) somewhwere along the line something has changed - may be about the time when Maggie T recruited a whole heap more, upped their wages by a very large amount and used them as her private government army to quell the strikers (mainly striking miners) with infiltration, phone tapping, brute and overwhelming force.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...thin-extremism
And it is not anecdote if you are there at the time, only if you get information second ot third hand, but go ahead and call me a liar, I am not easily offended.