One for the police on here

Of course we're all so well behaved on the .Org that there shouldn't actually be any reason to ever, ever stop us...

[timwilky]

Question

would you open your door to 4 men in dark clothing trying to kick in your front door at 3am, just because they said they were coppers?

No! neither would my dad.

He phoned the old bill to be told they were genuinely old bill

Originally Posted by timwilky

Question

would you open your door to 4 men in dark clothing trying to kick in your front door at 3am, just because they said they were coppers?

No! neither would my dad.

He phoned the old bill to be told they were genuinely old bill

Seems fair to me. 'better to be safe than sorry'

Yeah its when they bust in through your door, and pin you to the floorhone still in hand that you really lose.

Not a dig, but it makes me laugh on those cop shows when police jump someone "using the element of suprise" the person is initially submitting and saying ok ok ok but then when the police use force the person naturally resists the attack. Meaning the police have to use even more force to "sub-du" thier suspect, it just seems ironic like a vicous circle.

OBviously if force wasnt used, the police would never arrest anyone so I know why you have to do it, it just makes me laugh.

[Red Herring]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Question

would you open your door to 4 men in dark clothing trying to kick in your front door at 3am, just because they said they were coppers?

No! neither would my dad.

He phoned the old bill to be told they were genuinely old bill

It depends how strong the front door is, might be riskier not to open the door...

to the op my mrs finishes at 2am half hour before im ment to, she got pull by an undercover cop once i was able to leave early and she txt me the road she was on, i got there on the sv in full bike gear, walked over to cop, he jumped in his car and called for back up. 3 uniform cars responded and they was going to try to do my for intimidating a police officer! she was being pulled for doing 33 in a 30 and they dropped all charges because i was protecting my mrs and i argued the speed was within rounding error

[madcockney]

Originally Posted by lynw

Would have made life interesting if it was a Customs knock and the police said it wasnt them wouldnt it? But then again I dont think Ive ever done a knock at that unreasonable an hour

I used to know a few customs officers and they used to tell me that the police used to use them whenever they could as they had more powers than them, and didn't need the same amount of proof.

There are good and bad police officers as there are members of the public. Some of the ones you see on these UK police programmes make me cringe. They turn what could be an amicably resolved situation into something far worse and to me they sometimes come over as arrogant. Then you see others that go way out of their way to resolve the situation, or try to, even when they have to nick the person, so that the situation is resolved with as little hostility as possible.

Incidentally I have never been stopped on a motoring matter by an un dressed whoops un uniformed officer, but I have been questioned by "jeans, t shirt and unshaven" on other matters when they have been investigating a crime and they have almost always left a card with their name, police contact details, etc on, even when presenting their warrant card.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by timwilky

Question

would you open your door to 4 men in dark clothing trying to kick in your front door at 3am, just because they said they were coppers?

No! neither would my dad.

He phoned the old bill to be told they were genuinely old bill

Pulling a stunt like that you should expect to get shot!

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by Red Herring

It depends how strong the front door is, might be riskier not to open the door...

200 year old oak door about 3 inch thick. It was nothing sinister, a cyanide gas leak further up the river valley and concern the gas would follow the river, my folks never heard them knocking and were woken when plod thought they may have had a whiff of gas and decided they needed to check.

On this exact topic it was interesting to see this in the news today:

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.u...l/article.html

Doh.