No deep rooted issues here, but maybe, just maybe it's from never having a good experience when wanting the polices help, or only seeing the arrogant ones when they have crossed my path, and to be honest i'm quite sure this is'nt just me. The good cops would be better using their spare time sorting some of their colleagues out who give them a bad name out instead of covering up for them and moaning about the bad image. There's also a thread slagging tescos off on here, Lets hope no one on here works for tescos and starts moaning about the negative feed back they are getting.
That's what I the latest mod thought. I am wright I finkin you made me a mod nowing the numbers were the staffroom loock code.
Yeah, I did delete them and replace with a . Couple of beers and I probably should've just left it alone. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. It's a bloody hard job to do with nobody to back you up but when your organisation doesn't support you as well, what's the point?
All army personal were required to do a fitness test each year some units twice a year, one system was a squadded walk run for 1.5 miles then a best time for the return 1.5 miles, you had a set time to achieve and this time increased dependant on age eg 11.5 mins to 14 mins for 40 and over. The other method was full kit with weapons on a forced march with jump carry and other tests at the end. Fail and you took it a week later fail again then in front of the docs and remedial PT until you passed or was medically downgraded. At that time this run was done in boots, trousers and vest. In a unit all training was done in your time except remedial. Obviously special forces did more, far more. It may have changed now
Problem we've got is that most of the old school officers are retiring now after 30 years. The newbys are all fit, under 30, all up for wearing a uniform and thinking it's gonna get them laid! The 5.2 bleep test ain't difficult, Christ I did it whilst smoking a cigarette! But do the police really need a fitness test? Some would say yes but then I remember the days when I couldn't get in cos I was five foot eight!!! C'mon let's be sensible about this. I don't run after people, I run over them in a car ffs!!
Really!!!!! I used to work for Tescos!! If love to have the time to sort out the lazy Marmites at work but the truth is I'm to *****ing busy mate
I would say that a lot of police are decent but are frightened to speak out about bad colleagues. This is obvious because most retired police I know, don't like the police (I only know of one exception to this). I watch a lot of police fly on the wall programs, sometimes you see one cop who is an arse and the others look at each other in disbelief. None of them ever say anything though they just leave the bad one carry on. This makes people have less trust in even the good ones. Where I live there are loads of police, out of work they are great but I wouldn't trust one of them when in a uniform. I wish I had joined the police it looks a good career as long as your not interested in law enforcement.
But isn't that true of a lot of professions? I see how some people who work in schools talk to kids and think 'thank god I'm not a child in your class'. It doesn't mean everybody who works in a school is like that. There's good and bad practice everywhere, and a lot of those who are retired see the working generation as using unrecognisable work practices, it's the nature of the beast, life moves on, it doesn't mean one way of working is better than another. It's tarring a whole profession with 'x are like that's that doesn't help anyone.
I know I stated that I would not comment on any more controversial threads but @Chrisradioman comments of ' I wish I had joined the police it looks a good career as long as your not interested in law enforcement.' got me thinking (which is a novelty as I get nose bleeds if I think). How would a careers adviser sell the Police without law enforcement as it seems such a good number? Here goes. At 19 on your first night shift by yourself, you can have the burnt corpse of an elderly lady placed at your feet by the fire brigade and then an hour later get her relatives to ID the jewelry. You can spend all morning consoling the grieving parents of a two year old who died during the night from cystic fibrosis. You can have numerous blood tests and injections in case you get AIDs or Hep B from the drug addict that just bit you. You can spend the shift trying to stop someone taking drugs that they have hidden up their arse and under their foreskin with the added fun that they have covered themselves and the cell in Marmite. You too could go on nature walks and cut down bodies from trees where people hung themselves 3 months before. Don't worry about their weight as the local wildlife have already eaten their legs. You can break into flats and find the mummified remains of an elderly man who died leaving the gas ring on. You can go window shopping during the hours you stand on the road having bricks and petrol bombs thrown at you. You can pick up the dismembered body parts or a murder victim whose head was in a shopping bag. Not just any old shopping bag but a M&S shopping bag! You can celebrate christmas after attending a multiple fatal car accident on christmas eve whilst being careful not to tread on their christmas presents. You can go train spotting whilst walking 2 miles on a train track looking for the teeth of a suicide victim whose body is down the line. You can sit and watch a man who showed his parental love by abusing his young child not forgetting the opportunity to watch hours and hours of video of child porn from pedophiles. You can spend 5 days picking up the body parts of 4 men spread over miles of farmland following a mid air crash. You can be assaulted by football fans whilst giving first aid to another fan. You too could spend the entire day in torrential rain searching for a bomb following an IRA coded warning, wondering if something is actually going to go bang. I could go on but I'm boring myself now. If you notice, not one of these involve law enforcement. Dead easy, top job though. On the plus side you can smash down druggies front doors, drive cars very fast and get issued with sexy black overalls and a couple of guns. Anyway I'm off to find that careers advice form and some scissors to cut my fingers off so as to stop typing.
I take exception to your comments, and for the record I do not despise the public, I love my job and the people I meet, and I am proud to serve my country, for your information I contribute a sizable chunk of my salary to my pension, and as for cushy.........you have been watching too much TV or believing what you read in the papers. I do not treat people like scum as you call them, but I deal with each and every one with respect and courtesy, as I would like to be treated. However you would be surprised at how rude the public can be, but that is something we have to put up with. I police with consent and I love the fact that we have the best police force in the world.
If it pains you pulling that from your past then i have admiration for your mindset This could easily turn into a *******ing contest(im not playing unless ive been drinking fosters) But lets be honest all of us It doesent matter if your fire,police,paramedic, army,navy,raf,copper etc The thing that matters is at one point in your life you made the desicion to sacrifice yourself to help others Sorry for this evenings ramblings but they were supported by a gift of hobgoblin
