Police

[Styumpie]

Our friends at it again

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1309136/Lifted-like-rag-doll-hurled-cell-Shocking-video-police-brutality--5ft-2in-tall-59-year-woman.html

 

Will the officer responsible be jailed, of course not, police are above the law.

[glipper]

And they wonder why people on a whole think they are all a bunch o p***ks is it any wonder Styumpie..!!!

[owre-weel]

And they wonder why people on a whole think they are all a bunch o p***ks is it any wonder Styumpie..!!!

 

Like all walks of life it only takes a few bad apples! I dont think we should tar all officers with the same stick. Unfortunately you will always get the odd one who joins for the wrong reasons and loves the power they think they have. I came accross one recently, but in the main I have always found the majority of officers in Shetland to be professional, curtious and helpfull. Those who have a bad experience with particular officers should lodge a complaint, then something can be done to weed out those who dont carry out the job as they should do!!

[Para Handy]

GBH it's nothimg less than that.

And maybe he should be throwing into the same cell in the same way

And fired from his job and lose his pension as well

[Logie-Bear]

And they wonder why people on a whole think they are all a bunch o p***ks is it any wonder Styumpie..!!!

 

Like all walks of life it only takes a few bad apples! I dont think we should tar all officers with the same stick. Unfortunately you will always get the odd one who joins for the wrong reasons and loves the power they think they have. I came accross one recently, but in the main I have always found the majority of officers in Shetland to be professional, curtious and helpfull. Those who have a bad experience with particular officers should lodge a complaint, then something can be done to weed out those who dont carry out the job as they should do!!

 

Totally Agree.. Only takes a few bad apples.. On the whole i think the officers in shetland are ok, you go down to the mainland and you see alot worse!

[Guest Anonymous]

for ony body ower da age o 40 da names cox and patience should bring up some bad memories

[Njugle]

History or not, lets just keep this as a general discussion please. We can't allow personal defamation, it's in the T&Cs after all.

[MuckleJoannie]

Our friends at it again

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1309136/Lifted-like-rag-doll-hurled-cell-Shocking-video-police-brutality--5ft-2in-tall-59-year-woman.html

 

Will the officer responsible be jailed, of course not, police are above the law.

 

He's been jailed for 6 months.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11214026

[smeghead]

Have the police just paid thier fuel bills and renewed thier insurance, as they seem to be flying around a helluva lot these past few days. (Yes I ken aboot the drink/drug driving purge going on)

 

I have seen them in the small van going for a bit of sight seeing along seafield turned n drove back in the road apparently for no reason. As well as just about the entire shetland fleet of vehicles motoring about in Lerwick.

 

I also saw a lone policeman in the fiesta booting it up the south road (way above the 30/40mph limits) with no lights or sirens on, for them to be no where in sight going past Gulbertwick, only to meet the same car coming the other way at Brindister.

 

I'm thinking of signing up, so I get a go of a car with fancy illunimous paintwork, flashy lights, sirens and a licence to drive like a complete twat.

 

Oh, better not forget the fancy uniform to hide behind too.

[Guest Anonymous]

I was behind the police last week coming in the north road from the roundabout at the power station to the co-op they were doing at least 50mph as they left me standingwhen I checked my speedo and realised I was speeding and eased off. no emergency no blue light no siren. seems the law of the land is only for the plebs

[Guest Anonymous]

bear in mind theres all kinds of mind numbing regulations governing them too , real backfirst messed up legal system they try to work within , kinda feel sorry for them in many ways

 

Good manners and a sensible approach will diffuse a situation. That costs nothing. You don't need to fill a form in to be polite.The police are there to keep the peace and "UPHOLD" the law (not enforce it) Not stirr things up and deliberatly provoke folk by hurling false accusations at law abiding folk.

 

Police are there to report the facts, not speculate on what they may or maynot have seen or would like to have seen.

 

is many miles from where i was heading , i was mearly having a wide ranging pop at the legal system , not the officers

[Para Handy]

Have the police just paid thier fuel bills and renewed thier insurance, as they seem to be flying around a helluva lot these past few days. (Yes I ken aboot the drink/drug driving purge going on)

 

 

 

I'm thinking of signing up, so I get a go of a car with fancy illunimous paintwork, flashy lights, sirens and a licence to drive like a complete twat.

 

Oh, better not forget the fancy uniform to hide behind too.

 

Well smeghead?

 

Try this one out

 

Two police officers have been suspended from driving duties after crashing a high-performance car they had seized from a suspected drink-driver.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-11174855

[beachcaster]

Well it looks as if the Rozzers have been busy rounding up the Heroin couriers, they got £11k's worth the other week and another £20k's worth today. Makes you wonder how much of this sharn is coming into Shetland.

 

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2010/10/21/man-arrested-as-20000-of-heroin-is-seized-at-ferry-terminal

 

If I had a hat on, I would surely take it off for them. Which remids me, I need to buy a new hat now that the weather has taken a turn for the worse.

[mhutch]

thier time n resources should be even more focussed on this than the low level pettyness they get called out to sometimes , while am on here n can be bothered theres somebody doing targeted cars for wheel nut loosenings in firt, the victims know full well whos behind it but of course the perpetrators know fine well they can lie thier way out of it and potentially cost policing budgets 10s of thousands clearing up a fatal road crash , wonderful society Shetland is now

[Ghostrider]

Well it looks as if the Rozzers have been busy rounding up the Heroin couriers, they got £11k's worth the other week and another £20k's worth today. Makes you wonder how much of this sharn is coming into Shetland.

 

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2010/10/21/man-arrested-as-20000-of-heroin-is-seized-at-ferry-terminal

 

If I had a hat on, I would surely take it off for them. Which remids me, I need to buy a new hat now that the weather has taken a turn for the worse.

 

Yes, they're doing okay at the job they'e paid to do as far as this goes, can't complain there. The fact that there's still plenty of whatever anyone wants floating around suggest they still need to do more though. As I see it though, both are largely irrelevant, as they're just patsys playing their part in a broken system now. They can scoop up as much as they can manage, but as the old and now unpolitically correct adage about Chinamen went, "knock one down, and two will jump up in his place". The country, and the world is far too awash with "illegal substances" for the available Police resources to hope to do any more than skim the top of tehe pile.

 

The whole prohibition angle is now is a complete waste of resources in excactly the same way as prohibition of alcohol was, as I've said before, when the prospect of possible death from using contaminated substances doesn't stop someone, nothing is going to stop them.

 

Given the precarious state of the nation's finances that those who think they know and control such things are trying to have us believe, there surely never was a more appropriate time to reconsider the vast sums expended in Police, Court and Prison resources on a lost fight, and turn the thing around in to an earner, legislated, controlled and appropriately taxed as per the alcohol and tobacco models. Maybe not perfect, but considerably less imperfect and immensely cheaper than the status quo.