Re: Police policing the police demonstration
I normally stick out of the police threads but I've been run over, shot at (once), bitten, kicked, punched, spat on and shat on. Nothing special in that. And I fully admit that I signed up knowing (largely) what I was getting myself in for. I accept that it's my job to put up with all this.
I don't ask for thanks or any recognition bar the wage increase that I was promised. That equates to around ?175 for me and my family. I don't even care about the money, it's more the principle of being promised something and then being short-changed it whilst money pours out to other areas. No offence, but why are we spending 500 million on aid to Afghanistan? Makes the 30 million the police ask for look like very small change.
What did I do to deserve it? Last year my colleague and I recovered ?100k of nicked bikes and cars (or at least the majority of the bits) in a ringing shop. It would break your hearts to see what they did to a couple of the R1's. That's got to be worth, ?175 at least.
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