Dirk1971

Why are the cops here so aggressive, stand offish and have the carrot up the arse syndrome? Must be that gun?

Have they forgotten they are here to HELP people?

MD09

You will usually find them hiding in bushes at the bottom of hills trying to nab motorists doing 5km/h over the speed limit.

Dirk1971

or jaywalking...or sitting on their police car bonnets with four others looking agressive and unaproachable.

Centurion

Cops do a pretty good job imo. Sure they enforce the speeding, something which has been lost in the UK thanks to GATSO population, and thats never gonna be popular.

All the times I've asked a cop for directions or gone to the police station to pick up something which was lost (the dear lady's handbag was handed in), they've been brilliant.

Sadly most peoples run ins with the cops are never going to be on good terms, more confrontational. And that is the job they do.

But then, I think the UK police should have been armed a few years back.

Pollyana

There are several Qld police that use this site, pity you had to offend them with the title.

DrWho

And they'll all be on here a lot more soon when they go on strike...!

moneypenny20

Only had a couple of occasions of needing to deal with them and each time they were helpful, courteous. I guess if someone is breaking the law or doing something stupid, they may get a different perspective. There may also be an occasion when someone gets stopped and gives attitude and the police dealing with the incident is coming to the end of a particularly shitty shift. They are human beings after all.

The Bloke

Police in Queensland were also never armed up until the late seventies-early eighties. They were only armed after the upsurge of violent crime. It was quite common for officers to attend a domstic dispute or robbery only to be confronted by a rifle or some other weapon. Many officers were killed this way in the line of duty. Where I originally came from, officers never carried firearms. That was until they attended a break-in at a local sporting goods store, in 1985. The offender was cornered in the store, but the only trouble was that he had broken into the safe containing the bolts and ammunition. The result was a short siege.

I got pulled over for speeding once, didn't complain as I was breaking the law.
Another tome, I lost a wallet with nearly $100 in it near a pub in neighbouring town. It was handed in and the local officer contacted the officer-in-charge of my town and he personally drove around to our house to let me know.

If you don't trouble them, they don't trouble you.

The OP has just proved again what a pratt he is.

BadgeIsBack

I'd go with that. You can get away with (OK not literally!) blue murder for some offences if you are simply polite and apologetic - with a bit of luck.

I got let off riding a motorbike at 60mph in a 30mph no helmet, no license, no tax, no light, years back. The copper said "son do you know how much trouble you are in". I was very contrite, etc, etc, and he said, "push your bike back home, and no more will be said".

We find that some people who light fires (camp fires or burnoffs not wildfires) in the season will give us attitude and they are always the ones that the officers give a scare about how much trouble they are in. (In practise we don't take it any further once they are extinquished.)

The Bloke

Actually they are employed to enforce the laws of the land. If they wanted to help people, they would have got jobs with charities.

DagBoy

what are extinguished? The fires or the people

Dirk1971

lmfao the rozers are going on strike next tuesday cos one of their own has been done for bashing an aboriginal. Well they certainly didn't help him...

Dirk1971

Why is it offensive? It's a slang term. Like how the ozzies call us Poms!

I could have called them :

bacon
rozzers
pigs
old bill
the filth
etc etc....

moneypenny20

To be fair they are going on strike - if it happens because they object to him being initially found not liable to prosecution by the DPP but now someone else has said he is, Peter Beattie has joined in and they believe that police prosecutions should not be decided by politicians.

The Bloke

Apart from the fact that the officer will not be able to get a fair trial anywhere in Queensland, as there will be anger on both sides regardless of the outcome.