Tog arrested for photograph of police van going wrong way on one way road

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Guys, this is The Sun, I really think everyone should take this story with a rather large pinch of salt.

We don't know the full details, and I doubt The Sun do either.

It does scare me how everyone is so quick to jump on the "**** the Police" bandwagon, when these are the people who risk their lives every day to try and keep this country safe. Yes, they are human, they make mistakes, but without them, we would all be ******!!!
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Guys, this is The Sun, I really think everyone should take this story with a rather large pinch of salt.

We don't know the full details, and I doubt The Sun do either.

It does scare me how everyone is so quick to jump on the "**** the Police" bandwagon, when these are the people who risk their lives every day to try and keep this country safe. Yes, they are human, they make mistakes, but without them, we would all be ******!!!
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The article is a year old, tis true.

However lumping all the police together saying they all risk their lives for us every day is just as bad as lumping them all together and saying that they are all incompetent/liars/thieves/corrupt.

Some of them do some of the time and some of them are most of the time.

The good ones are just as upset about the failure to do something about the bad ones as the rest of us are.
 
arclight said:
That is a carbon copy of an incident reprted a couple of years ago.
I wonder if it is accurate.
The Sun is not exactly the seeker of truth and justice.
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Actually, I think it's the same one. Thread from the dead. :lol:
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Guys, this is The Sun, I really think everyone should take this story with a rather large pinch of salt.

We don't know the full details, and I doubt The Sun do either.

It does scare me how everyone is so quick to jump on the "**** the Police" bandwagon, when these are the people who risk their lives every day to try and keep this country safe. Yes, they are human, they make mistakes, but without them, we would all be ******!!!
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I don't know if PC Plod who is the community officer for some backwater town is exactly risking his life every day.
 
welly said:
I don't know if PC Plod who is the community officer for some backwater town is exactly risking his life every day.
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Why not?

He could attend a traffic accident and get killed by a car blowing up. Or attend a robbery of the local news agent and get stabbed. Unlikely, yes, but certainly possible.
 
Arkady said:
At the risk of being foully condemned by everyone on here, perhaps a clue as to the leniency with which this officer was treated is in his name...
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I was thinking the same, but for a different reason.

'I kinda said, your going the wrong way' => 'Oi [insert racial slur here] you f***'in idiot, can't you read. This is a one way street you *****'

I would then hope that the policeman cautioned verbally the pedestrian by saying that this sort of behaviour in public is not acceptable. Please vacate the vicinity whilst we go about our business.
At which point the pedestrian returns with a camera, takes a photo and shouts more abuse? Possibly along the lines of:
'You f***'in [insert racial slur here], I have a photo now, I am going to go and dob on you'

My reason for thinking this, is if the police were inside a busy fish and chip shop, reviewing CCTV footage, how would they notice the person outside taking photos of their van, unless this person was causing a commotion?

It does not justify any physical abuse which the policeman might have doled out, but I would think, if this is true-er to events, then perhaps the pedestrian was a little worked up, when the police came over. If he were waving the camera around, then it might have looked heavy enough to hurt, and they may have then tried to retrieve/block it, which might have caused it to hit the ground.
 
ScarySquirrel said:
Why not?

He could attend a traffic accident and get killed by a car blowing up. Or attend a robbery of the local news agent and get stabbed. Unlikely, yes, but certainly possible.
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I take it back, you are quite correct. There is that possibility! :bonk:
 
Steve Smith said:
My thoughts exactly. Police officers (and politicians, council officials, etc.) are our servants, not our masters.


Steve.
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Couldnt of put it better myself, sometimes they even think there above the law !
 
"PC Farooq and an unnamed WPC said they were at the fish and chip shop to review CCTV footage of another incident."

My Ar*e!! More like...

"PC Farooq and an unnamed WPC said they were at the fish and chip shop to review different flavours of pies."
 
I can't understand why some feel the need to defend the plod. They are sycophantic bullies, no more and no less.
 
What did this guy want to achieve by getting his camera? It's not a time machine, the event was over.
At best he was going to get a shot of a van parked up that could have come from any direction. What he got was much much more pointless.

That said, why did it upset the PC? A duff photo of a van, well done mate, go home.
 
Lets give this a rest now. There is good and bad in everything. I could mention armed response teams commiting murder and getting away with it. But I see on the local news on TV tonight, 3 cops on their first day saved a childs life. When I had an attempted burglary the cop who came was a real nice bloke.
 
classcams said:
Lets give this a rest now. There is good and bad in everything. I could mention armed response teams commiting murder and getting away with it. But I see on the local news on TV tonight, 3 cops on their first day saved a childs life. When I had an attempted burglary the cop who came was a real nice bloke.
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I agree totally. This thread is nothing to do with photography now and is becoming verbally agressive and quite insulting. If it doesnt change I hope the mods will put an end to it.
 
You had one turn up? Well done. I had my workshop broken into three times and all I got was a crime number for the insurance.

Understand this. I'm a freemason and as such I get to socialise with coppers. All they are interested in is thier own ego's, period. I hear them at the bar telling thier ****ing up the wall contest tales of derring-do. I hear about how they routinely abuse thier powers, how they take trips to Brighton on quiet nights, just to buy ice cream. I hear how they will take a drive around the block rather than break up a fight outside a nightclub and save a drunk from a good kicking. I hear how they treat people in the back of the vans and in the cells.

respect for the Police? Maybe, once upon a time but then I reached puberty.
 
classcams said:
Lets give this a rest now. There is good and bad in everything. I could mention armed response teams commiting murder and getting away with it. But I see on the local news on TV tonight, 3 cops on their first day saved a childs life. When I had an attempted burglary the cop who came was a real nice bloke.
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:agree:

I am a serving police officer and totally agree with some of the views expressed within this thread.

If what has been reported is the truth and has not been exaggerated, the officer referred to in the story has completely overstepped the mark and should have been dealt with appropriately.

There is no place in policing for this type of behavior or incivility.

I must say however, that it has saddened me to see that so many members of this forum are so quick to tar all police officers with the same brush and to use the offensive terminology that has been used to refer to and describe persons (such as myself) who joined the police service to try to make a difference in my local community. :thumbsdown:

I have not posted to try to generate further discussion on the matter or to try to change the views of those that have posted before me. I simply thought it would be appropriate to respond to a subject matter that I felt strongly about.
 
You get 1 bad officer in several hundred and it is them that gets all the publicity. You all hear one side of a story and tar thousands of good people with the sins of a tiny minority! Nobody here knows exactly what went on that evening but it is clear that the officer overstepped the mark by some way but I bet the poor defenceless tog did too!

He was arrested for D&D..... Had he NOT been drunk the custody sergeant would not have accepted him so clearly he was drunk. The drunken bloke turns up and takes photos of the police van then in a drunken slur starts effing and jeffing at a police officer and sticks a camera right in his face so the officer is forced to defend himself by pushing it away.

Could this not be what happened ??? Do we know ?? no we don't....

As for other comments on this thread such as mortgages paid for? Housing benefit was about £40 a week and finished 15 years ago! plus the police pay 11% of their income into their pension to get that decent return. If YOU paid 11% of your income into a pension scheme would you not expect a decent return??

I think we can assume that the truth is in the middle somewhere and it is quite clear that the VAST majority of police officers are honest, hard working people trying to make a difference and some of the comments in this thread are far below the standard I would expect from members on this forum.

I for one hope that this thread is closed
 
going round in circles and getting a bit unfriendly, we all have our opinions, the police do a difficult job, but as someone said, they are like any other company and have idiots in the workplace too.

closed.
 
classcams said:
Lets give this a rest now. There is good and bad in everything. I could mention armed response teams commiting murder and getting away with it. But I see on the local news on TV tonight, 3 cops on their first day saved a childs life. When I had an attempted burglary the cop who came was a real nice bloke.
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PS. What he said. And ladysue

And matty.
 
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