TwoRs
Got back to the motor tonight to find a big hole where the stereo was and the lock knacked in.Not the first time it's happened, but I didn't think car stereos were even worth the effort these days. Then I twigged they's probably been after the satnav as there's some smudges on the windscreen. (never left in the car)Anyway - felt well gutted. I can't live without me sounds in the motor. I rang the plod straight away. Before I even got in the car. They were really good - said somebody would be round at mine in the hour and said i shouldn't try to touch anything.I was amazed - I mean - I've called the cops before and they've never even showed... this time - phew... I drove home - it takes ten minutes tops - and there was a cop car already outside my house!!!He was waiting for the one already in the house chatting to the Mrs!!I got in - she was a tidy blonde.. top lass too.Took all the details and promised the fingerprint cops would call in the morning.As soon as she'd gone they rang to confirm a suitable time!!!What's going on??? It's only a car stereo probably swapped for a bag of brown.I'm impressed. Next week I praise the security services for catching fundamentalist nutters in plots to blow up planes that everyone forgot about.
Leeds_Poet
I had similar recently. Got back to car in the train station park to find it had been keyed down the side. Asked the young twat in the ticket office whether they had CCTV footage but he just smirked and said 'I don't know, maybe you should call the police'. Felt like smacking the cocky fucker.Anyways, got home and my wife said I should phone the old bill, just to alert them that this had happened. They were great. They asked me to describe exactly where the car was and where the scratches were. They then passed me onto a section in Cardiff, where someone gave me a crime number. Two days later a local bobby phoned to say that he was going up to the station to ask to see CCTV footage. A week later same local bobby phoned me to say they didn't have CCTV footage of the car park but if they arrested any scrote for a similar offence they would put it to them.I did feel really well dealt with. We hear enough negative shit about the police in the media but both mine and 2Rs cases demonstrate that perhaps most of them are doing a dilligent and decent job.
borntobemild
Yes, but the chances of them apprehending the 'perp' are virtually nil.I was victim of a similar charm offensive recently when a CD player worth at least £10 was nicked out of my daughter's car.It may well be that the prospect of visiting the probably only mildly pissed off victim of a relatively minor crime was a preferable option to sorting out a fight between two gangs of knife-wielding teenagers.Call me a cynic if you like :/
MickMcCann
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Glamorous_Hooligan
I'm with Mick. In my experience they are on the whole incompetent, arrogant fuckwits that couldn't get proper jobs. My view of the dibble is probably colored by watching what they did to the peacefully protesting Miners at Hatfield Main.
Rudi
I live in Humberside. My local constabulary are too busy watching paratroopers choke to death on their own vomit and pumping bullets into charity workers on roadsides to be bothered with car radios.
TwoRs
I'm just amazed they beat me home.Everyone has their horror stories of incidents with the plod. I bet I've as many as the next McMan, maybe it's why I posted this, but as the wise old Womble says there are bad ones in every job. Ever worked anywhere different?We all love the dodgy cops like Reagans, Mackeys and McNultys.... on fantasy-vision... would we like them bashing down doors on Braithwaite Estate?Yes if they've got my stereo!It's a hot potato...Catch!! ps - Had my wing mirrors nicked last weekend and didn't bother reporting it - cost me 40 bar to replace. Didn't expect to get em back, but today I just wanted to settle the stats. Report everything! Otherwise it's all hogwash.
Rudi
I'm not saying there aren't decent coppers. I presume there must be. It's just that I've never met any. Plus, the nature of what they do means they can't really get away with being bad at their job the way a milkman or a call centre operative can. I try and give everyone the benefit of the doubt despite me personal prejudices, but the police (or should I say our local police) have let me down time and time again, in ways large and small. I've had quiet a bit to do with em in a professional sense and I am constantly horrified at the amount of ignorance, arrogance and stupidity they display. The higher up they are the worse they seem to be. Maybe they start off with good intentions and gradually get so immersed in crap and compromise that they end up all bitter and twisted? The other thing that really annoys me is that a lot of the ones I seem to come across have an inflated grasp of their role within society. I thought their job was to apprehend law breakers and present them in front of the legal system for sentence? Why do they always have to give it this big moral judgement gig when they're going about their business? There's always a fuckin lofty lecture coming down atcha, service with a condescending sneer. I dunno, maybe it's an unfair attitude I've got towards em. But I've always agreed with that old adage, that the very desire to be in the police should automatically disqualify you from being one. Same with politicians. There's a copper up the road from us. His missus is vaguely friendly with me mate's wife, who also live roundabouts. She told me the other day that her and her husband had been invited round by the plod to "have a look at the missus' new tit job" Just about sums em up for me I'm afraid.
Escaped_from_Armley
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MolOverBeethoven
Their treatment of and attitude to football supporters every weekend, that alone is reason enough.
Glamorous_Hooligan
Rudi's right: what ultimately drives someone to want to be a dibble, politician, football steward, traffic warden or a soldier? I've just named 5 "occupations" there and I would willingly put down money that the large part of the people doing those jobs are grade A, certified, one hundred per cent, without a shadow of a doubt billy no mates who wet the bed well into their teens and wanted nothing more than to be the school bully.The world's being overrun with these Jobsworth Little Hitlers. Again, IMO when you front up to these arsewipes out of their uniforms they slip back into being the emotional wrecks they've always been. Fuck 'em I say. Nobody makes them do the dirty work for The Corporate Owned State.
Bobdobalina
We don`t have coppers in York anymore,we just have them community support officers riding around in flourescent jackets on mountain bikes.When my mrs salon got burgled last year I sugested to the officer that turned up yawning his head off that heshould have his hair cut whilst he was there and maybe he could see like the rest of us how they gained entry.Never caught anyone,but the local scroats all have clean and well conditioned hair.
borntobemild
We too benefit from Community Policing.Our local beat bobbyette stuck up a note in our local shop saying that she only worked part time, and indicating which days and times she would be in the area.Shortly after, the shop got robbed. On one of her days off. Presumably by full time criminals. :/
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TwoRs
Bastards left fingerprint dust all over the car.
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TopMan
I know a copper and he can make bloody brilliant roast potatoes.
Old_Bill
[quote=borntobemild]Yes, but the chances of them apprehending the 'perp' are virtually nil.I was victim of a similar charm offensive recently when a CD player worth at least £10 was nicked out of my daughter's car.It may well be that the prospect of visiting the probably only mildly pissed off victim of a relatively minor crime was a preferable option to sorting out a fight between two gangs of knife-wielding teenagers.Call me a cynic if you like :/[/quote]OK, I'd like to seriously ask you to think again about this and other posts on this thread.I am a regular poster on OMJ and have registered under this username as I don't see any mileage in advertising the fact that I was a police officer for 13 years. That in itself speaks volumes I suppose but I am happy not to be identified by a former profession and would rather partake of the board untainted by peoples preconceived ideas of what my former profession makes me.Some posters on here will know immediately who I am. I have to say that the attraction, in the main, of a site like One Mick Jones is primarily, that it is fun and quite unusually out there in cyberspace is frequented by reasonably intelligent people with a broad range of interests and experiences.From time to time however there are some things which are worthy of comment and this thread is one of them.In no particular order I would like to take issue with some of the comments on here starting with borntobemild's - What the hell are the police supposed to do that would please you in this situation ? As you say they have dealt with you politely when taking a report of a minor crime, this leads you to the conclusion that this is only because they would prefer to be doing that than dealing with a more serious or dangerous situation. Don't you think that this opinion , when analysed is slightly ridiculous ? If they hadn't have bothered to turn out and take your report would you not have been slagging them off for that as well ?