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Highlander1:
OK here's my 2 bobs worth get a life and grow up.
I have had a car at my door for 7 of my 17 years in the plod that has blue flashy lights and yellow stripes.
My kids leave for school at 8am on a bus they get back at 4pm. After I have gone to work.
I pass them in the car going to work I chose the job so what the [!Expletive Deleted!].
I work 7 days on 2 off. If I buy a sandwich or bag of chips the phone normally goes at that time so I go and deal with what ever leaving the snack in the bin on my way out. [!Expletive Deleted!] happens.
When do I stop for a break well I don't I eat on the run.
I have a 3 hour run to get from one side of my patch to the other. drive 300 odd miles a shift on single track roads.
I get home sometimes at 5 am after starting at 8am the previous morning so [!Expletive Deleted!] right I will sit in a lay-by and shut my eye lids for a few minutes in order to stop killing some other poor [person of questionable parentage] on the road.
Get a [!Expletive Deleted!] life. I get called out any moment of the given day and when my "police cars at home it says he's in go and ask for this or whinge about the neighbours [!Expletive Deleted!] hedge.
I sleep in a [!Expletive Deleted!] chair with my uniform hanging beside it for call outs and haven't touched alcohol in 6 years to be in a position to respond.
So please forgive me for loosing the [!Expletive Deleted!] plot now [throw it] off and let me have 5 minutes rest.
Go join the specials Oh and by the way the blue black uniform thingy has a presence so when yer shopping in tescos the thieving bar stewards [throw it] off.
Do you have an hours meal break or even 30 minutes well then your a lucky bar Steward. If the bloody car wasn't on the yellow lines then it wouldn't be a response car.
Oh just parking the panda in the multi storey be back in 30 minutes if there's a shout I will try and get back from my lunch early. [!Expletive Deleted!] off.
Rant over my heart bleeds purple [throw it].
crazymac:
So well put Highlander1, the role of the highland bobby is very unique and often very lonely, so keep it up (P.S. next time I'm passing through to Skye to see my sister can you ignore my speed if I display my mudclub sticker??) :lol: :lol: :lol:
Thing is its very easy to bobbybash!!
As they are often public figures its when they do ordinary things we see them, as boggert said, I would rather they were visible doing the mundane than hidden away in a canteen eating! I worked for many years in residential social work, we too did not get a lunch break as such, we made food and sat with the kids to eat it, often incidents cropped up so you could not eat at all when on shift but that was just tough..
so yes, often when I go into tesco's there is a bobby in there, great, it means I am less likely to be mugged, have stuff stolen from my car, have my car stolen, or have the prices increase again due to shoplifting!!
so keep up the good work, you have my utmost respect because you get the sht from all sides, damned if you do, damned if you don't by joe public and grief from the bosses cos you've not filled in a pathetic bit of paper that keeps you in the station for an hour!!!
Boggert:
--- Quote from: "Highlander1" ---OK here's my 2 bobs worth get a life and grow up.
I have had a car at my door for 7 of my 17 years in the plod that has blue flashy lights and yellow stripes.
My kids leave for school at 8am on a bus they get back at 4pm. After I have gone to work.
I pass them in the car going to work I chose the job so what the !Expletive Deleted!.
I work 7 days on 2 off. If I buy a sandwich or bag of chips the phone normally goes at that time so I go and deal with what ever leaving the snack in the bin on my way out. !Expletive Deleted! happens.
When do I stop for a break well I don't I eat on the run.
I have a 3 hour run to get from one side of my patch to the other. drive 300 odd miles a shift on single track roads.
I get home sometimes at 5 am after starting at 8am the previous morning so !Expletive Deleted! right I will sit in a lay-by and shut my eye lids for a few minutes in order to stop killing some other poor [person of questionable parentage] on the road.
Get a !Expletive Deleted! life. I get called out any moment of the given day and when my "police cars at home it says he's in go and ask for this or whinge about the neighbours !Expletive Deleted! hedge.
I sleep in a !Expletive Deleted! chair with my uniform hanging beside it for call outs and haven't touched alcohol in 6 years to be in a position to respond.
So please forgive me for loosing the !Expletive Deleted! plot now throw it off and let me have 5 minutes rest.
Go join the specials Oh and by the way the blue black uniform thingy has a presence so when yer shopping in tescos the thieving bar stewards throw it off.
Do you have an hours meal break or even 30 minutes well then your a lucky bar Steward. If the bloody car wasn't on the yellow lines then it wouldn't be a response car.
Oh just parking the panda in the multi storey be back in 30 minutes if there's a shout I will try and get back from my lunch early. !Expletive Deleted! off.
Rant over my heart bleeds purple throw it.
--- End quote ---
Crikey I thought my 150 sq miles of beat was big! :shock:
You are right in everything you say, I think people are so quick to criticize what we do.
discograham:
But image and attitude count for so much, don't you think ?
And the old chestnut of " just picked up someones brains " or " had to tell someone their child has died" ...well, there's only so much of that "feel sorry for me" bull that I can take...I've done it..it's not nice but get over it...it's part of the job so give over on the sympathy/shock angle will you... coppers these days are not what they used to be.
BUT...
They catch some toe-rag, and some shyster gets him off... or some social worker intervenes and the dim judiciary let them off with neary a slap... where is the job satisfaction in that ?
Or they catch someone the wrong skin colour to be prosecuted, lest the screaming lefties emerge from under their stones crying racial predjudice...
Police officers are targets of general hate and blamed for so much, and are used by the ignorant and ineducable as a vent for their inadequacies...
But the police don't help themselves one little bit.
In general they are rude, verbally bullying, and seem to think they can be intimidating to whomsoever they wish just because they can... and how sarcastic they are... yet the moment you are sarcastic back it's " There's no need to take that tone with me Sir " and the veilled threats of arrest if you keep it up...
No, the police have a cushy little number on the whole... poor job satisfaction maybe, but it's not a hard job and I won't be kidded into believing otherwise... hell, I know enough good friends who are police officers and I KNOW what coppers are like...
Offended anyone enough yet ? No ? Well...let's get to the Tesco bit then shall we... I worked for Tesco for many, many years... the police used to turn up every night at every store I delivered to... sometimes they stayed for half an hour... sometimes more than three hours..and the store policy was let them have what they want free from the canteen...so don't try and tell me they pay... because I know they don't...I sat there with them often enough... sure, if a call came in then off they went...but they should have been out on the streets, doing their job, not flirting with the night staff, which they all seem very good at....
I really believe it's a power thing..."you can't touch me or say anything to me 'cos I'm a copper and will win in the end... 'cos I've got mates with pepper spray and 'cuffs"...
Don't even talk to me about response times.
Blue touch paper lit... now standing well back... :wink:
Boggert:
--- Quote from: "discograham" ---But image and attitude count for so much, don't you think ?
And the old chestnut of " just picked up someones brains " or " had to tell someone their child has died" ...well, there's only so much of that "feel sorry for me" bull that I can take...I've done it..it's not nice but get over it...it's part of the job so give over on the sympathy/shock angle will you... coppers these days are not what they used to be.
BUT...
They catch some toe-rag, and some shyster gets him off... or some social worker intervenes and the dim judiciary let them off with neary a slap... where is the job satisfaction in that ?
Or they catch someone the wrong skin colour to be prosecuted, lest the screaming lefties emerge from under their stones crying racial predjudice...
Police officers are targets of general hate and blamed for so much, and are used by the ignorant and ineducable as a vent for their inadequacies...
But the police don't help themselves one little bit.
In general they are rude, verbally bullying, and seem to think they can be intimidating to whomsoever they wish just because they can... and how sarcastic they are... yet the moment you are sarcastic back it's " There's no need to take that tone with me Sir " and the veilled threats of arrest if you keep it up...
No, the police have a cushy little number on the whole... poor job satisfaction maybe, but it's not a hard job and I won't be kidded into believing otherwise... hell, I know enough good friends who are police officers and I KNOW what coppers are like...
Offended anyone enough yet ? No ? Well...let's get to the Tesco bit then shall we... I worked for Tesco for many, many years... the police used to turn up every night at every store I delivered to... sometimes they stayed for half an hour... sometimes more than three hours..and the store policy was let them have what they want free from the canteen...so don't try and tell me they pay... because I know they don't...I sat there with them often enough... sure, if a call came in then off they went...but they should have been out on the streets, doing their job, not flirting with the night staff, which they all seem very good at....
I really believe it's a power thing..."you can't touch me or say anything to me 'cos I'm a copper and will win in the end... 'cos I've got mates with pepper spray and 'cuffs"...
Don't even talk to me about response times.
Blue touch paper lit... now standing well back... :wink:
--- End quote ---
My problem with what you have said is its a total generalisation of all Police Officers from a bad experience.
The simple fact is there are numpties in every profession it is unfair to tarnish every officer with your views.
Yes I know some crap Police officers I also know some superb ones who I would not hesitate to put my life on the line for.
Now I'm holding back here because this is a public forum and yes what you have said I do find offensive, but hey its a free world and you can have your views.
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