The Police - Your Review?

My only recent experience with the police came when Kwak dropped his bike on the N Wales rideout, and contrary to popular belief not all N Wales coppers are *******s, they were great, more concerned for Kwaks welfare than checking bikes and riders , as an ex ambulance driver(a long time ago ) Ive been out to RTA,s and incidents with the police and seen what they have to put up with,I wouldnt do it, Im on there side.

must agree with stewie, the cops were good there, mind you he was a personal friend of lissa's lol

Kinda funny this thread has come up last, this one of the thing we talked about last night....

I do the best I can, alway act professionally you know how much I love my riding, well I'm into my job the same way.

Yes I do make mistakes, I human i'm still learning, what bothers me about this thread is that its seems the odd one that gives us a bad name. the truth be known I cant do my job without your help. I guess I do the job, wanting to make a differnce, change the world by help one person at a time. I want be a bike a cop as well, so for me it ties in everything togther.

Yeah in the past year I have had the odd nighmare and sleepless nights, buts what can you do? The Officer that died in Wembley, was part of my team, didn't know him that well, but its funel soon, not looking foward to it, last dead person I cared about was gran, not looking foward to it all.

In nicest possibaly way, I hope not be seapking with any of u whilst at work unless its at the ace. I want my work and personal life as far apart as possibale.

Those of you you that know me know what I'm like. Its a uniform, doesn't change who I am.

Sorry to hear bout your friend... sympathies to you and all his friends/colleagues and family.

It`s the same old story tho.... I think one or two spoil it for the vast majority. I think when it comes to the police the majority are going to remember the bad experiences and not the good and I know there`s plenty of nice, caring policemen and women like yourself out there.

I had a real good laugh last week... I was out in the car working and had a student nurse with me, we were stuck in a queue of traffic due to a "police incident". We were listening to the radio and Bee Gees "Night Fever" was playing, catchy tune and me and my student were having a bit of a bop in the car. 2 policemen walked up and started dancing in the road, was hilarious... i still smile thinkin bout it

Never been pulled on bike or in the car, just careful/lucky I suppose. Only time they've ever done something that annoyed me was parked up at the top of a multi-storey car park. I'd returned to the car alone because the ticket was virtually run out and waited for my mate. What I later found out was an unmarked car cruised past several times with two scally looking coppers in it. I had a car full of shopping, xmas presents, good few hundred quids worth, and the idea that these guys were thinking about mugging me and possibly nicking my car occurred to me, and thought I'd rather not give them the chance. When I saw them coming around for the third time I had the engine running and pulled out, at which point they gave chase and put their lights on.
Took me 20 minutes+ to explain myself, they thought I was nicking it.........All because these idiots (I assume they are) don't have any imagination, it's a goddamn unmarked car!

That annoyed me.

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Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

My experiences have been mixed. Sometimes i`ve been unlucky and got the arrogant ones but on the whole i find if I act "humble" they`re quite amenable. I have been stopped for speeding on the bike a few times and let off just by having a bit of banter and grovelling, in the car i`ve not been so lucky!

Being a blonde girly helps though!

I have had 2 good and 2 bad experiences.

1st Good. It was 30 years ago and I was in the pub after hours. he told us to drink up and get off home then asked which way we were going. He told us to drive steady and went in the opposite direction

2nd Good. Driving my truck up through Epping Forest I was pulled over for speeding, he jumped in the cab and proceeded to make my life a misery with points and tachograph check, until he looked on the bunk and saw my crash helmet. He asked me about my bike, told me to watch my speed and let me off

1st Bad.
Young plod in a traffic car pulled me over while in the truck again, asked to check logbook and driving licence and went through all documents. He then said that I looked overloaded and had to follow him to a weighbridge. Before weighing he said that he had noticed that I was driving round a roundabout too fast when he saw me. I asked him exactly how fast, and he said well it looked very fast to me. I asked him how long he had been driving an HGV and he replied he never had. He then weighed the truck and found it was 4 tonne under its permitted gross weight. He spent ages looking for something then said the immortal words. OK, im going to let you off this time. I said I have a good mind to report you for wasting my time I got let off for doing nothing wrong.

2nd Bad.

I was arrested by 4 policemen for non payment of a small fine and at 6am in the morning was rudely awakened, handcuffed and taken to a cell in the local courts before the magistrates arrived. On the way to the police station, I asked for my arms to be freed but the coppers wouldnt take my handcuffs off, the driver of the car was watching this and went the wrong way down the motorway slip road meeting oncoming traffic. I shouted and called him some choice names. This was taken as a breach of the peace and I was warned and arrested while under arrest. At the station the copper told the desk sergeant what I had done and he wanted a statement from me.

I made a statement to the sergeant about my treatment and his driving and called him a pillock. The sergeant agreed and called him a pillock too. In court, for the non payment of a 150 quid fine I was given the chance to pay it at £10 per month, which is what I had asked for in the first court hearing.

Abuse of power by some police, common sense by others

As others have already said, i've had a mixed bag experience wise. I've probably come across more decent feds, than idiots, but it doesn't seem like that in my mind.

Most of my negative experiences have been with either traffic/met cops. In my experience they seem to have a far higher percentage of tw@s in their ranks.

Also the royal protection officers around Windsor, always seem bored and likely to cause mischief. The amount of times i've been pulled in that area, for nothing at all, are beyond a joke. "Have i commited a moving traffic offence officer?"....."no we just want to do some checks"...."the same as last week then, do you guys not liaise with each other?"....confused look from policeman as they fail to grasp the concept.

The sort of policeman with a chip on the shoulder is the one that was probably bullied at school and that joined the force to gain some authority he could never have hoped to earn in the real world.

I've had more good experiences than bad - once I got pulled over on the M61 for going rather quickly, got a stern telling off and was sent on my way, no ticket.

Also the officers who attended my crash in the car early last year (colleagues of our very own Bluepete IIRC) were great, sorted us out calmly at the scene, moved my car out of harm's way and made sure everyone was ok, very nice blokes.

The only bad experience I've had was when I was on the way home from a night out, myself and a mate discovered that a shop where I used to work had been broken into - I was still friendly with the owner so went round the back etc hoping to catch whoever might still be in there while waiting for the police to turn up. When they did turn up they treated me like public enemy no.1 and were blatantly goading my mate into kicking off with them. When the owner turned up and vouched for me they let us go, but the male officer at the time was still giving my mate daggers as we walked away.

Oh and I almost forgot, I've been on a few rideouts / meets with BluePete now and he's a top fella!

Have just remembered a couple of other Police encounters - one bad, but one good to balance it out.

Firstly the knob who polices Frith St, home to the Soho Massive. There are heaps of examples of his rubbishness, but on this particular occasion it was the first time i'd come across him and he asked us to move on as we were (as ever) parked on double yellows.

I had a brief and extremely polite conversation with him and said we'd leave straight away. He seemed quite reasonable, explained that he realised we weren't the ones casing the trouble, etc but he had to move us as there had been complaints about bikers. Everyone peacefully set to putting on lids and getting ready to ride off. But then all reasonableness went out of the window and he insisted on only letting us leave at 2 min intervals so we wouldn't 'ride around causing trouble'...

And the good? Back in my, ahem, younger days I got lost trying to get to a friend's house in London. I found myself walking down some alleyway in the middle of nowhere, then a cop car appeared and the guys asked if I was OK. I asked for directions, but they ended up offering me a lift to where I was going as it was a fair walk. Imagine the look on my mates' faces when i arrived in a cop car carrying all the goodies for the weekend in my pockets heheheh...