Some faith restored in the police force.

Last night:

I get deployed for a grade 1 burglary in progress
Me: do you have anyone else,Im in the middle of a statement at the moment.
Controller: no I have no other resources, you're it
Me: *sigh, Ok what have you got
Controller: Burglary in progress, still happening, we have 3 running, one is carrying a 40 inch plasma screen TV
Me: 10.5 (en route)
Officer1: I will back up
Officer 2: Have you got a direction, I will make that too
Officer 3: I have 2 special constables with me, we will make too
Dog man: Heard that, make sure they dont wreck my track
Me: can we have X55 up please and a description when possible
Controller: Yes yes
Officer 4: Where is this I will make too.

Strangely enough when they didnt find them everyone buggered off leaving me to do the paperwork...aww feckem, someone has to , but the nice old lady gave me a lovely cup of tea and a kitkat!

[Red Herring]

Reminds me of that famous story...
Caller- Hi, I think I've got a prowler in my back garden.
Police control - Sorry, we haven't any spare patrols at the moment, we'll get someone round when we can.

10 minutes later

Caller - Hi, a rang a few minutes ago about a prowler, don't worry there's no need to rush, I've shot him so he's not going anywhere.
Police control - What!

10 minutes later

Three armed response vehicles, two dog handlers and the duty inspector have turned up and searched the blokes garden. "I thought you said you had shot the prowler" asks the Inspector. "I thought you said you didn't have anyone available" replies the householder...

Haha - like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-OgFCurtqM

One night i'm out with a guy i hate for my neighbour,its pitchblack, and we're walking around a eight foot fence on the outside of a playpark-there's a group people inside, drinking and smoking hash, shouting and annoying the neighbours-plan is to climb the fence and sneak up on them-i get to the top of the fence and before i can jump, i slip and my foot gets caught between two of the spars, resulting in me hanging upside down with one leg wedged and i cannot move, and can't reach the ground-what does the dipstick that i'm working with do ?does he help me?-no the fud gets his mobile phone out and starts taking pictures-finally helps me down then sends the pictures to the shift-if you only new half of what happens you'd see that we are human(nearly)

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Von Teese

but the nice old lady gave me a lovely cup of tea and a kitkat!

And how did Dirtydog feel about that...

Originally Posted by Von Teese

It does make you wonder sometimes!!

Haha! One officer gave a ticket to a parked up vehicle outside the police station for exceeding the 15 mins allocated waiting time.

Turned out that it belonged to the Area Commander who had gotten tied up with a serious offence when he just 'popped in to get something', if he had known he would be held up he has his own allocated parking spot inside the nick, she even PNC checked it before the ticket was written and still didnt put 2 and 2 together!

Doesn't matter in my eyes. He shouldn't have parked there, and if he'd got caught up, it is the AC's dutie to move their car or get someone to move it.

If i'd parked in a 15 min waiting zone, but got held up in a post office or something and got a ticket after 17 minutes, does that make it right I got a ticket? Can't do 1 rule for 1, and another rule for general public.


No probs with the police in this instance, as said, could have been running a check on the car or anything. Having a huge go at the women (PC) would have taken her eyes off of getting the bike reg number, hence the officer telling the biker to get lost quickly. He can't be done, the women won't remember the reg, the officer can then deal with her however they see fit.

tbh, if she'd have done that to me, i'd have nabbed the phone and tossed it as well. So nearly considered it before, but with teh drivers car keys But I haven't.....

Originally Posted by Daimo

If i'd parked in a 15 min waiting zone, but got held up in a post office

In his defence, a slight difference between a post office queue and a child who just got abducted.

Originally Posted by Von Teese

Last night:

I get deployed for a grade 1 burglary in progress
Me: do you have anyone else,Im in the middle of a statement at the moment.
Controller: no I have no other resources, you're it

Officer1: I will back up

Officer 2: Have you got a direction, I will make that too

Officer 3: I have 2 special constables with me, we will make too

Dog man: Heard that, make sure they dont wreck my track

Officer 4: Where is this I will make too.

So when they say there's no resource to deal with something is it usualy complete tosh?

Originally Posted by Daimo

Doesn't matter in my eyes. He shouldn't have parked there, and if he'd got caught up, it is the AC's dutie to move their car or get someone to move it.

If i'd parked in a 15 min waiting zone, but got held up in a post office or something and got a ticket after 17 minutes, does that make it right I got a ticket? Can't do 1 rule for 1, and another rule for general public.


No probs with the police in this instance, as said, could have been running a check on the car or anything. Having a huge go at the women (PC) would have taken her eyes off of getting the bike reg number, hence the officer telling the biker to get lost quickly. He can't be done, the women won't remember the reg, the officer can then deal with her however they see fit.

tbh, if she'd have done that to me, i'd have nabbed the phone and tossed it as well. So nearly considered it before, but with teh drivers car keys But I haven't.....

Originally Posted by Von Teese

In his defence, a slight difference between a post office queue and a child who just got abducted.

There's a difference Viney being carted off in an ambulance and leaving his crashed bike behind, and him leaving it illegally parked, but he still got a ticket and he'll still have to appeal it via the normal process. I agree that it shouldn't matter who's car it is, if a ticket would normally be written, a ticket should be written. If if the officer had realised it was his car, she didn't know where he was or about the abducted child, he could well have been in the post office queue.

back to the op
well done plod, so some are sneeking through training with commen sense in tact,and as stated the law is the law but lets be honest a bit discreshion makes a better copper
good job that plod

Originally Posted by Von Teese

Last night:

I get deployed for a grade 1 burglary in progress
Me: do you have anyone else,Im in the middle of a statement at the moment.
Controller: no I have no other resources, you're it
Me: *sigh, Ok what have you got
Controller: Burglary in progress, still happening, we have 3 running, one is carrying a 40 inch plasma screen TV
Me: 10.5 (en route)
Officer1: I will back up
Officer 2: Have you got a direction, I will make that too
Officer 3: I have 2 special constables with me, we will make too
Dog man: Heard that, make sure they dont wreck my track
Me: can we have X55 up please and a description when possible
Controller: Yes yes
Officer 4: Where is this I will make too.

Strangely enough when they didnt find them everyone buggered off leaving me to do the paperwork...aww feckem, someone has to , but the nice old lady gave me a lovely cup of tea and a kitkat!

vt - it seems you are one of the few who actually gives a damn. it always struck me that the force was full of kids all wanting to do the exciting stuff and the rest of the work is just something to be skived out of. If i am honest i would say that is 99% of the problem with the police.