I hope this is just a wind up

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T.C. · #1 Post by **T.C.** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:13 am

I am convinced that very soon we will be regarded as a third world nation in terms of road safety and enforcement.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... icing.html

Gio · #2 Post by **Gio** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:34 am

At least it'll go well with our 3rd world roads

T.C. · #3 Post by **T.C.** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 2:58 pm

Gio wrote:At least it'll go well with our 3rd world roads

Well said, never thought of that

fatboy · #4 Post by **fatboy** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:28 pm

Bargain basement policing swelling the Treasury's coffers even further?

Greg · #5 Post by **Greg** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:48 pm

I've seen groups of people - and I have to say they all appeared to be of pensionable age - standing on the roadside with their pristine pressed hi-viz jackets and clipboards taking numbers of vehicles that I can only assume they thought were driving too fast.

Fuck knows who does what with the information they generate, nor indeed how they are 'taught' to judge a vehicle's speed with any degree of accuracy or consistency, other than that they might have thought it looked or sounded like it was going too fast.

T.C. · #6 Post by **T.C.** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:26 pm

Greg wrote:I've seen groups of people - and I have to say they all appeared to be of pensionable age - standing on the roadside with their pristine pressed hi-viz jackets and clipboards taking numbers of vehicles that I can only assume they thought were driving too fast.

Fuck knows who does what with the information they generate, nor indeed how they are 'taught' to judge a vehicle's speed with any degree of accuracy or consistency, other than that they might have thought it looked or sounded like it was going too fast.

They are given basic training along with a speed recording gun which is usually a lazer.

Speeds and registration marks are recorded and the details are passed to plod who then send out a letter.

BikerGran · #7 Post by **BikerGran** » Tue Jan 31, 2017 11:43 pm

I know when I was still working at Police HQ I said they were gradually civilianising the police, this is just another step along the way IMO.

They've stopped calling it the Police Force, it's now the Police Service.

And the training given to new recruits is a fraction of what it was when I started with them (I was a 'bloody civvy'

). So is the quality of the recruits - that and the lack of training is probably why they don't allow the officers to use their own discretion any more - they don't have any, and don't know the law well enough to apply it if they did.

Might just as well have civilians doing it, there's not much difference.

Greg · #8 Post by **Greg** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:55 am

Of the groups I've seen one had nothing but clipboards and in the other there was a guy recording vehicles with his mobile.. no 'equipment' other than that.

D-Rider · #9 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:45 am

It is the Daily Mail which has never been known to let the truth get in the way of a "good" story ...... however the suggestion that the government might save some money / hand things over to their private-enterprise chums does lend some credibility.

Willopotomas · #10 Post by **Willopotomas** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:50 pm

The thing is, most of the people who will sign up to these schemes usually turn out to be ex-Stasi or those with an inferiority complex. Not to say they're all like that, I mean their spouse will stand no chance!

The biker pub we frequent in Coventry held a retirement party for one of our 'Boys in blue' a few weeks back to which I did the disco. Speaking to a few of the serving bods down there I was quick to realise that they're all of a similar ilk. Certainly not like how I remember the Police. They were off-ish, standing broad shoulders and bolt upright looking around the place as if they owned it.. One of them came up to me and asked if I had all the appropriate licences to run a disco, to which I said yes (which I do).. He gave a look and a nod as if to say "good citizen", so I responded "But what if I haven't?".. After a puzzled look I continued "If I haven't got the correct paper work to run a two-bit disco in a back street pub, what would you do about it?". He laughed awkwardly and wandered off, as both he and I know there's bugger all he can do about it without an official complaint, and even then the charge would be a spurious use of time and paperwork..

fatboy · #11 Post by **fatboy** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 6:34 pm

That reminds me of a wind up my mate played on PC KeenOnTheScene,
He walked up to him and asked ' If I said you are a cunt you'd arrest me wouldn't you?'
PC Keen replied 'Yes I would, that would be a Public Order offence'
My mate asked 'What if I think you are a cunt ?'
PC replied 'I can't help what you think'
So my mate came back with 'Well I think you're a cunt !'

katie1 · #12 Post by **katie1** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 9:54 pm

fatboy wrote:That reminds me of a wind up my mate played on PC KeenOnTheScene,
He walked up to him and asked ' If I said you are a cunt you'd arrest me wouldn't you?'
PC Keen replied 'Yes I would, that would be a Public Order offence'
My mate asked 'What if I think you are a cunt ?'
PC replied 'I can't help what you think'
So my mate came back with 'Well I think you're a cunt !'

Love this

JeanLucRidehard · #13 Post by **JeanLucRidehard** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 9:48 pm

fatboy wrote:That reminds me of a wind up my mate played on PC KeenOnTheScene,
He walked up to him and asked ' If I said you are a cunt you'd arrest me wouldn't you?'
PC Keen replied 'Yes I would, that would be a Public Order offence'
My mate asked 'What if I think you are a cunt ?'
PC replied 'I can't help what you think'
So my mate came back with 'Well I think you're a cunt !'

Outstanding funniest thing I've read in a long time.......

lazarus · #14 Post by **lazarus** » Tue Feb 14, 2017 1:15 pm

Problem is that the police are oerpaid to a serious degree - compare their pay with the pongoes whose lives are at risk. So having given them the pay deal, the govt now finds it cant afford to hire that many hence PCSO etc.

Similar thing has happened with nurses not to mention with GPs.

Gio · #15 Post by **Gio** » Wed Feb 15, 2017 9:32 am

lazarus wrote:Problem is that the police are oerpaid to a serious degree - compare their pay with the pongoes whose lives are at risk. So having given them the pay deal, the govt now finds it cant afford to hire that many hence PCSO etc.

Similar thing has happened with nurses not to mention with GPs.

I presume by PCSO you mean the ineffective idiots that are plastic police/men/women.