[TV] Night coppers

[Shropshire Seagull]

Thought exactly the same. Likewise, the caution for the woman who glassed her partner.

But wasn't that because he didn't want to press charges?

 

[GJN1]

But wasn't that because he didn't want to press charges?

Perhaps you're right, yes.

 

[HHGull]

He was a youth wasn’t he ?
Sentencing is significantly different for youths. Some might say “ridiculously lenient”.

Outrage as teenager spared jail after 'violent attack on defenceless police officer'

A teenager who assaulted a police officer, giving him two broken bones, has been spared jail in what the police federation has described as a…

www.theargus.co.uk

 

[rippleman]

The police numbers were decimated between 2010 & 2019, at least 21,000 down as well as the rest of the Criminal Justice System. All small police stations have gone, sold off, money into government coffers.

Except that.....wasn't it only last year we had that copper sat in his car in Lancing when a member of the public reported shoplifting and the assault on a female at a local co-op (about 40 seconds drive away) and the copper refused to go because he "wasn't response" and if he went to the incident he "would have to deal with it".

Never saw any follow-up to say that the copper had been kicked out (a constable's priority is "the preservation of life") so I assume he wasn't. Not a good look is it? Report on Today this morning echoing OOM's comments that despite paying all his dues, the police do nothing when he has cause to contact them.

Get the PCSOs out of cars and get them walking the beat, working in local communities, like they are supposed to be doing.

 

[happypig]

Outrage as teenager spared jail after 'violent attack on defenceless police officer'

A teenager who assaulted a police officer, giving him two broken bones, has been spared jail in what the police federation has described as a…

www.theargus.co.uk

Thank you.
I was chatting with a Crown Court judge about 20 years ago and he said “If someone comes before you for assaulting a police officer, they should expect to go to jail.”
That would be for Common Assault, the lowest of the three categories. This scumbag was done for Grevious Bodily Harm, the highest, and I am at a loss to see how immediate custody wasn’t imposed “pour encourager les autres”.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Except that.....wasn't it only last year we had that copper sat in his car in Lancing when a member of the public reported shoplifting and the assault on a female at a local co-op (about 40 seconds drive away) and the copper refused to go because he "wasn't response" and if he went to the incident he "would have to deal with it".

Never saw any follow-up to say that the copper had been kicked out (a constable's priority is "the preservation of life") so I assume he wasn't. Not a good look is it? Report on Today this morning echoing OOM's comments that despite paying all his dues, the police do nothing when he has cause to contact them.

Get the PCSOs out of cars and get them walking the beat, working in local communities, like they are supposed to be doing.

https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/crime/sussex-police-respond-to-allegations-that-pcso-refused-to-attend-shoplifting-incident-4205899

 

[BN9 BHA]

He was a youth wasn’t he ?
Sentencing is significantly different for youths. Some might say “ridiculously lenient”.

He was 19 years old….. adult?

 

[The Fifth Column]

Some of these coppers look like theyve barely come out of nappies. Is this represenatative in the city so many young coppers?

Yes it is, as a recently retired cop I can say there is little real experience left on frontline policing, mostly young kids with minimum experience burning out in matter of a couple of years. A consequence of only recruiting a very small demographic of graduates or those willing to study for a policing 'degree ' meant many people not fitting into that narrow category were put off joining. Meanwhile conditions on the frontline got so bad anyone with experience moved on or got promoted out of there. They cocked up the recruiting for about the last 10-15yrs and here we are left with kids in uniform.

 

[KZNSeagull]

What's the place with the dancing bunny girl in the window?

 

[happypig]

What's the place with the dancing bunny girl in the window?

I think it’s where the mods hang out.