Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 10220771)

This is really important to you isn't it? This forum I mean. Its really important isn't it?

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 10220748)

Absolutely true. I know a guy who was a DCI on the Flying Squad, when the chinless wonders at the top still gave them some allowances to bend the rules a bit to get the big guys - you can't get them any other way.

He was particularly successful in getting armed robbers back from the CDS, before Spain signed the extradition treaty, but he got into big trouble.

They took his rank away, stuck him back in a uniform, and gave him a bike to ride around the M25. He was a big man who liked a drink, and fell off his bike on the first corner, getting him an immediate injury pension.

Nowadays, he wouldn't last a minute in our police force.

Originally Posted by kimilseung (Post 10220827)

So this is a thread about how bad the police did, instead they should act recklessly and I think people are saying immorally and illegally. People are saying that the police making sure that they are not investigated by other police for crimes is a bad thing.

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 10220829)

Christ, Matt, your comments, as usual, are daft, irrelevant and plainly insulting. You're trying to ruin yet another thread, like you've done a thousand times before.

It's about time the plug was pulled, you won't be missed.

Originally Posted by HBG (Post 10220829)

Christ, Matt, your comments, as usual, are daft, irrelevant and plainly insulting. You're trying to ruin yet another thread, like you've done a thousand times before.

It's about time the plug was pulled, you won't be missed.

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 10220838)

I think the post regarding the police response were quite relevant.
They've gradually been pushed into a corner from which it's almost impossible to continue policing properly.
We don't know the full facts to judge wether or not earlier action would have been appropriate in this case, but remember the furore when they almost got it entirely wrong about that taxi driver a couple of years back.
Basically they're damned if they take hasty action and they're damned if they don't.

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 10220841)

Right, I'd like proof please. No bickering, no baggage, no crap, just a serious question. Where is your proof of this sweeping statement?

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 10220856)

For starters try reading "Wasting police time" by David copperfield,pseudonym naturally of a serving copper.
A real eye opener from a guy with no axe to grind against anyone other than to expose the inefficiency and red tape within the force.
There are others by the same guy and another with similar sentiments I read recently by a serving female officer.
They all tell very much the same story.
How they manage to operate at all under present circumstances and restrictions is truly amazing.

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 10220862)

So on the say so of an obvious self publicist you make a judgement? If its "almost impossible" to police properly why do we not live in a completely lawless society? Your use of the word "impossible" suggests that we do. Thats what I am challenging.

Originally Posted by Dick Dasterdly (Post 10220890)

I suggest you read and digest rather than prejudge and also others like it.
There is already a sizeable section of society with zilch respect for the powers of law and order and I'm not only talking about lefty extremists by a long chalk.

Originally Posted by rugbymatt (Post 10220771)

This is really important to you isn't it? This forum I mean. Its really important isn't it?

Originally Posted by agoreira (Post 10220926)

And to you, it seems. I read this thread this morning, I've been out most of the day enjoying the great weather, came home for tea, you were still going on, been out walking again this evening to enjoy the great weather, come home and you're still at it. Have you people no other life apart from this forum, you seem to spend your whole life on here. And for some, this is just one of the many forums they use, get a life FFS. I love the Spanish based foreros on this site that bang on about the weather, how do they know, they never leave the computer.:rofl: