Why do I not believe that?

I have no idea if this is sarcasm or not.

My apologies, I never have been a police officer nor do I wish to be, hence my lack of research on the matter.

It was, after all, a question and not a statement.

A mountie must show you his citizenship card on demand. So if you're ever arrested by the RCMP, you can refuse to co-operate until you're satisfied that they are indeed a bona-fide Canadian citizen. Then you safely can go with them and get Tazered to death.

Well they let me into the RCMP as an Auxiliary

Thanks dboy, you're not wrong. I left a good, well paid, job in Essex to move to Wiltshire where I had to take a minimum wage job working over 40 hours a week just to break even. We have been here for about 6 years now and still don't have the circle of friends we had before, and don't expect to. At the end of the day, if Canada is as sh*t as the negative posters here are saying then we'll move back to the UK. I don't have issues with possessions etc, if I get into Canada I'll be taking nothing but a toothbrush and a few clothes and I can move back to the UK the same way.

What a load of tosh!

Not all coppers are leaping over tall buildings with their capes blowing in the wind you know

Just goes to show you that the general public have a unrealistic image of policing based on Kojak and CSI.

As a cop, maybe you can shed some light on something that's been bugging me.

My opposite neighbour is a military policeman. He has recently put a blue bulb in his porch light. I can't ask him why because he's away on a course. Do you think he's sending out some sort of message?

I realise that. It just strikes me as odd that you could be in a position where you don't know where your weapon is. I would have thought that weapons would be rather tightly controlled.

I have no problem with cops, BTW.

Never!!!

My comment was supposed to be tongue in cheek. Fear not. I know where it is, safely locked away in my desk with trigger lock, in a locked room stored away from the ammo - just at the Firearms act requires.

First time I've heard of that. Be thankful it's not a red one!

My image is wistfully based on The Sweeney. You mean to tell me that you are not driving around in Mark 1 Granada's yelling 'shut it you slag!' and 'Guv!'
I'm devastated.

Are you sure his wife didn't put it there? Maybe a blue light is the cop-wives version of the old Army-wives "OMO" soap-box.

Cops in those days didn't even have to be able to read. I suspect cops these days have to do more paperwork than a Sweeney-era legal secretary.