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I was a police cadet in the time that the cadet's got a wage of around 500 per annum. It was a pittance in terms of pay and we were the lowest of the low. After two years in the police force I graduated as a probationary Police Constable doubling my pay overnight.
At around this time bobbies were leaving the police force in droves, but then Edmund Davies bumped up the wage and we finally got the kind of salary that we where worth - what a pity they let the agreement slip!
Unfortunately technology hadn't caught up with us and we worked points. The men who drove cars all had radios, whilst those of us on the beat stood by phone boxes (these were called points) on the hour and for ten minutes there after. I met my wife on a point so it wasn't all that bad!
If they had a job for you they rang, if not you moved on to the next kiosk. If you were unlucky enough to get a sticky job in between then you were on your own and would often have a few bruises to prove it!
When was the last time you saw a bobby on the beat?
We worked a seven shift night's week, followed by two rest days (and slept half way through the first one of them) followed by what was called an "I/C" week. For the uninitiated that's 7 days of incoming paper work, of summonses, warrants, foreign force enquiries etc.
This was a great way to get to know who lived on your patch. No radio, no body armour, no CS, no baton, no stun gun, only a short piece of hickory (known as a truncheon) and your whit's to defend you. But the public respected us because we had earned their respect and could be called on at any time to step in as a police officer. Everyone knew where the line was and what would happen if it was crossed it.
Today the police commute in, do a job and then commute out! When was the last time you saw a bobby on the beat and do you know his or her name?
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Punishment would carry same maximum sentence as burglary or importing Class B drugs
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LOL IL SEE THAT BIG MOUTH PRI!K IN SPAIN WILL SOON BE BACK IN THE UK !
About time I see them dirty bent coppers in their sports cars ? On their salary ?
The truth has come out - crooks in uniform flying squad are the worst !
I have a mate based close to one of their training centres , he sees bmws , mercs , range rover sports & bentleys coming out of their car park & I wonder how they purchase such exotic cars on their wages ? It's called taxation of criminals !
We all know these bacon bits are a bunch of crooks in uniform & abuse of power runs all the way to the top !
This is what they are, bad-heads. The average thief that stole a handbag could've been sentenced to pick up litter for 6 weeks which is far less of a deterrent to the felon than time in the slammer, or a suspended sentence.
John Davidson has run the Smugglers restaurant in the Spanish holiday island of Minorca for 15 years since taking early retirement from the Metropolitan Police.
Like I always say how the fcuk does a bacon bit end up in Spain ? Rotten corrupt bacon rashers !
It's obvious he was on the take --- gimme the loot gimme the loot !
What a joke !
These criminals also get paid for their malicious behaviour .
Crimes of this nature are more transient today than they were decades ago due to it being much easier to move around the country quickly. More cars means more car ownership and more access to independent movement.
those who want a return to the old ways of bobbies on the beat are living in a world of blind romanticism. The criminals will not return to their old methods so why should the police?
Noblet, I'm not a police officer but I have worked with them a lot over my career. If I were I would be proud to say so.
In what way is crime these days more "transient" than crime of a few decades ago? Shoplifting, mugging, breaking and entering, car theft, domestic violence, abuse of children, murder, brawling in the street - not much new there.
That's why there not on the beat !
This is a thing of the past and people need to get used to that idea. As with everything else in life crime has evolved. Most crime committed these days is of a transient nature and the only way to combat that is by intelligence based policing. Unfortunately this means that the police need to be elsewhere. The problem with the British public is that they expect the police to be superheroes. Only on 'The Bill' and other such programmes are they like that.
I foften feel very sad about the public's perception of the police. It is born out of a combination of tv drama and blind ignorance.
The help people write up statements for the courts - make it more tangible & guess what when the chap turns up to give his evidence he can't cause his statement is not in his own words !!
The CPS another bunch of prats just wasting court time on cases with no evidence!!!
Plain Hearsay !!!
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