The Police - Your Review?

I have had plenty of 'instances' with the police. I have never come across a bad one. In fact, I have been extremely lucky with meeting the damn good ones. Even when I have been fined and points given, it could have been much worse had the officer cared to charge me for all things he could have.

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by BluePete

Not on me by the way, a prisoner

i didn't know the police did that sort of thing to prisoners...

Pulled on the M1 at night for having no lights on the bike (Fair cop). Given a damn good (and deserved bollocking) a producer and told not to go back on the motoway without it fixed. When the official bit was over he said it looks like you've blown a fuse or fuses and they'll be under that side panel. Being a bit green it probably took me an hour to make the most of the advice but then i was on my with - i sacrificed my indicators for my headlight - and that only worked on full beam. Still got me home. So top marks there.

I've never had a 'bad' experiance as such. I'm generally a very law abiding person, probably to my own detriment. I do get annoyed when the police put on a bad show though. I emailed my local lot to say I list a few things recently that didn't impress me. They said they'd raise a complaint. I replied and said I didn't want to make a formal complaint, but that I wanted them to agree with me and tell me what they were going to do about it. I then got a letter from someone else telling me he appreciated my observations and what they were going to do.

I've had my garage broken into numerous times and where I've needed to make an insurance claim (never for contents but for two new doors) I've had to report the breakins. I've also reported one attempted that caused serious damage. After the 3rd report they sent someone round, forensics. I'm sure though that they were only there to check I wasn't doing some kind of insurance scam. They turned up, were amazed at the damage to the door and left after about 2 minutes saying there was nothing they could get prints from.

So I've no personal experiance to complain about, but I do think they are hamstrung by rules & regulations and the rest of the bollox (political correctness and avoidance of any kind of 'ism) that is adversely affecting our society.

The Police - Your Review?

The Who? They were good weren't they? Roger Daltrey and co.

Oh, "The Police", yeah they were OK, not really my taste, but my sister liked them.

Sorry, you the mean the Boys in Blue? That terrible comedy by Cannon and Ball.

Oh, now I remember, you mean those guys that used to wear uniforms and drive round in cars with blue lights on the top! Whatever happened to them?They were quite common ten years ago. As for a review, well the minds a bit rusty but I seem to remember some were good lads and some were wannkers

i havent been pulled much on bikes,

got pulled one night for no lights, i simply forgot to switch them back on! had to turn them off on my scoot hwen i parked it, or they would blow occasionally when my immobiliser activated(GOD KNOWS WHY!>), thats what i told the copper anyway, he was kool about it name checkd out and off i went.

when ever i am pulled im polite to them, i give them no excuse to get arsey with me, when i was younger i got nicked quite a few times, even then when i was mouthy some were still very kool headed with me,some were just idiots be it old bill or not. and i learnt its better to give them no excuse to get aggy with you. if they do just be nice, they dont like that.

if i get pulled for any reason it would have to be by Miss Shellywoozle, what a loverly telling off that would be lol mmmmm trying not to think of shell in uniform lol

[squirrel_hunter]

Generally had a good experience all round... so far...

My biggest complaint would be the time they can take to turn up to take someone away. Admittedly these are non urgent calls but after an hour or so the 'suspect' does start to get a little jumpy.

As for a good experience? I nicked someone right at the end of my shift one night. After they were carted off and I did the statement it was about an hour and a half after the shop had closed. The only people left were me a manager and a sales assistant, my date. We were supposed to be going to the cinema after work and she was not happy with me. So I had a chat with one of the officers and we got a ride over to the cinema, which was nice as it was blowing a gale. I still remember the faces of the kids outside as this cop car pulled up, they opened the door to let us out, I said thanks and we wondered into a movie.

I've been nicked three times in twenty years, always by real policemen rather than cameras and they've always been polite and professional. Same goes for all the cops who have let me off over the years and the ones who responded to a break in at the flat a few years back.

I, on the other hand was a right pr*ick to them as a (drunk) obnoxious youth. I grew out of that though, as people tend to do...

The only tw*ts I have ever come across were Transport police brought in from dan sarf (actually they were mostly from oop north but you know what I mean) to police the Scotland-England Euro playoff football match. They were so obnoxious, so smug, so inflexible they were causing people to lose the place. And they were loving it! But they're not really cops so don't count.

So overall the review is two thumbs up!

I accept my flaws and don't tend to give any lip unless provoked, in which case, all guns come out blazing.

and the end result is you end up getting nicked due to your attitude-doesn't matter if the coppers a tube or not there's only going to be one winner and its gonna be the guy in the uniform-like it or not theres an attitude test and if you have a bad attitude(in the coppers opinion not your own) when being spoken to your leaving yourself wide open.
if you ever visit up here and get stopped best advice would be to keep Q

husky

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!